danchapman 0 #1 August 24, 2010 An old timers quiz: What was it and where was it? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites crustySCSA69 0 #2 August 24, 2010 Quote An old timers quiz: What was it and where was it? directly above your head Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites RogerRamjet 0 #3 August 24, 2010 Quote An old timers quiz: What was it and where was it? Probably not the one you're thinking of, but... In 1975, Roger Nelson organized a meet in South Bend Indiana. We took the Loadstar down there from Aurora where we had it up for the summer working at Hinkley. I saw more malfunctions that weekend than ever before or after. I packed 13 reserves myself and other riggers were busy as well. I also saw the lowest survived opening in my career when a guy cutaway at about 1000 feet, took his time pulling his belly wart which happened to contain a 28' reserve. When the canopy opened, his feet swung through the wheat and he landed prone receiving only a bloody nose. The farmer who was on his tractor cutting the wheat had to be attended to by the ambulance that was sent out for the jumper. I never heard screams of anger like the ones coming from his wife when she realized he was alive... ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites jackwallace 3 #4 August 25, 2010 Well there was sort of one in the Wisconsin Dells. The guys that jumped at the Tommy Bartlett water show decided to see if they could get thrown out of every bar in town one summer. A real feat, if you know how many bars are in any town in Wisconsin. The guy that owned the Function Junction bar, couldn't be convince to throw them out so one night they repainted the sign. I can't remember if that got them kicked out or not.U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites patworks 5 #5 August 25, 2010 Roger "Ramjet" Clark made me think of this low opening photo. I think Red Kostaba (Hinckley, James Gang) shot it in the late '60sPat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites RogerRamjet 0 #6 August 26, 2010 QuoteRoger "Ramjet" Clark made me think of this low opening photo. I think Red Kostaba (Hinckley, James Gang) shot it in the late '60s I was jumping with him (and Bohr and others) that very same summer though he didn't attend the South Bend event as I recall. ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites jumpwally 0 #7 August 26, 2010 Did he survive ?smile, be nice, enjoy life FB # - 1083 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites sundevil777 102 #8 August 26, 2010 QuoteRoger "Ramjet" Clark made me think of this low opening photo. I think Red Kostaba (Hinckley, James Gang) shot it in the late '60s That looks like one canopy inflating within another, is that right?People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites talon2 0 #9 August 28, 2010 Cape Canaveral also known as Disneyland East (pre Disneyworld) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites danchapman 0 #10 September 3, 2010 RR- Malfunction Junction was the nickname for a small bar in rural central New Jersey, circa 1962-63. The actual name was HillBilly Hall, I believe. It was not far from Adam's Airpark, home of Tri-State Skydivers, one of the largest operations in the country at the time. Malfunction Junction was the preferred watering hole for the instructors and riggers from Tri-State. I can tell you from experience, that there was no card check there. If you could see over the bar you were served- even if you were sitting on a bar stool. Tri-State also had a bunkhouse for the guys to sleep in. If any jumpers were left at closing time, who could not find there way, they were transported to the bunkhouse to sleep it off. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites RogerRamjet 0 #11 September 3, 2010 Quote RR- Malfunction Junction was the nickname for a small bar in rural central New Jersey, circa 1962-63. The actual name was HillBilly Hall, I believe. It was not far from Adam's Airpark, home of Tri-State Skydivers, one of the largest operations in the country at the time. Malfunction Junction was the preferred watering hole for the instructors and riggers from Tri-State. I can tell you from experience, that there was no card check there. If you could see over the bar you were served- even if you were sitting on a bar stool. Tri-State also had a bunkhouse for the guys to sleep in. If any jumpers were left at closing time, who could not find there way, they were transported to the bunkhouse to sleep it off. Very cool! Totally different experience at South Bend. After jumping Saturday, we all went into town to a bar and grill where I ordered food and a coke. The waitress asked me for ID to which I replied I was only getting food and a coke, no alcohol. She said Indiana required two forms of ID to drink or eat there. I had my Florida driver’s license and luckily had my FAA riggers card with me or I would have been down the street at McDonalds or something. Between the malfunctions, heat, and rules, I came away somewhat under whelmed with Indiana... ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites zoobrothertom 5 #12 September 4, 2010 Did I get it right? You had to show ID just to order food because they serve beer, too?____________________________________ I'm back in the USA!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites NickDG 23 #13 September 4, 2010 "Malfunction Junction" isn't the worst place to be. It's "Too Late Junction" you have to avoid . . . NickD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites usedtajump 1 #14 September 4, 2010 QuoteDid I get it right? You had to show ID just to order food because they serve beer, too? Had to do that at a concert in Nashville a month ago just to buy a bottle of water. I guess just because they sold beer at the same stand its required.The older I get the less I care who I piss off. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites RogerRamjet 0 #15 September 5, 2010 QuoteDid I get it right? You had to show ID just to order food because they serve beer, too? Yup. I kept telling her I didn't even drink and just wanted food and a coke. She kept telling me it didn't matter, she still needed two IDs that matched. My first impressions of Indiana weren't so hot... ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites danchapman 0 #16 May 1, 2011 "Too Late Junction" you only visit once, there is no return. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites lodestar 0 #17 May 2, 2011 Roger, I lived in Indiana for a time, the quirky part of that law is that if you have a drink at the bar, and want to move to the table to eat, the waitress or the bartender must move your drink for you, you cannot carry it yourself.... Indiana is anal retentive and has the most archaic laws around drinking I've ever experienced.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites ripcord4 0 #18 May 2, 2011 Washington, D.C. has the same regulation about moving drinks. 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crustySCSA69 0 #2 August 24, 2010 Quote An old timers quiz: What was it and where was it? directly above your head Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RogerRamjet 0 #3 August 24, 2010 Quote An old timers quiz: What was it and where was it? Probably not the one you're thinking of, but... In 1975, Roger Nelson organized a meet in South Bend Indiana. We took the Loadstar down there from Aurora where we had it up for the summer working at Hinkley. I saw more malfunctions that weekend than ever before or after. I packed 13 reserves myself and other riggers were busy as well. I also saw the lowest survived opening in my career when a guy cutaway at about 1000 feet, took his time pulling his belly wart which happened to contain a 28' reserve. When the canopy opened, his feet swung through the wheat and he landed prone receiving only a bloody nose. The farmer who was on his tractor cutting the wheat had to be attended to by the ambulance that was sent out for the jumper. I never heard screams of anger like the ones coming from his wife when she realized he was alive... ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jackwallace 3 #4 August 25, 2010 Well there was sort of one in the Wisconsin Dells. The guys that jumped at the Tommy Bartlett water show decided to see if they could get thrown out of every bar in town one summer. A real feat, if you know how many bars are in any town in Wisconsin. The guy that owned the Function Junction bar, couldn't be convince to throw them out so one night they repainted the sign. I can't remember if that got them kicked out or not.U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
patworks 5 #5 August 25, 2010 Roger "Ramjet" Clark made me think of this low opening photo. I think Red Kostaba (Hinckley, James Gang) shot it in the late '60sPat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RogerRamjet 0 #6 August 26, 2010 QuoteRoger "Ramjet" Clark made me think of this low opening photo. I think Red Kostaba (Hinckley, James Gang) shot it in the late '60s I was jumping with him (and Bohr and others) that very same summer though he didn't attend the South Bend event as I recall. ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumpwally 0 #7 August 26, 2010 Did he survive ?smile, be nice, enjoy life FB # - 1083 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sundevil777 102 #8 August 26, 2010 QuoteRoger "Ramjet" Clark made me think of this low opening photo. I think Red Kostaba (Hinckley, James Gang) shot it in the late '60s That looks like one canopy inflating within another, is that right?People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
talon2 0 #9 August 28, 2010 Cape Canaveral also known as Disneyland East (pre Disneyworld) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
danchapman 0 #10 September 3, 2010 RR- Malfunction Junction was the nickname for a small bar in rural central New Jersey, circa 1962-63. The actual name was HillBilly Hall, I believe. It was not far from Adam's Airpark, home of Tri-State Skydivers, one of the largest operations in the country at the time. Malfunction Junction was the preferred watering hole for the instructors and riggers from Tri-State. I can tell you from experience, that there was no card check there. If you could see over the bar you were served- even if you were sitting on a bar stool. Tri-State also had a bunkhouse for the guys to sleep in. If any jumpers were left at closing time, who could not find there way, they were transported to the bunkhouse to sleep it off. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RogerRamjet 0 #11 September 3, 2010 Quote RR- Malfunction Junction was the nickname for a small bar in rural central New Jersey, circa 1962-63. The actual name was HillBilly Hall, I believe. It was not far from Adam's Airpark, home of Tri-State Skydivers, one of the largest operations in the country at the time. Malfunction Junction was the preferred watering hole for the instructors and riggers from Tri-State. I can tell you from experience, that there was no card check there. If you could see over the bar you were served- even if you were sitting on a bar stool. Tri-State also had a bunkhouse for the guys to sleep in. If any jumpers were left at closing time, who could not find there way, they were transported to the bunkhouse to sleep it off. Very cool! Totally different experience at South Bend. After jumping Saturday, we all went into town to a bar and grill where I ordered food and a coke. The waitress asked me for ID to which I replied I was only getting food and a coke, no alcohol. She said Indiana required two forms of ID to drink or eat there. I had my Florida driver’s license and luckily had my FAA riggers card with me or I would have been down the street at McDonalds or something. Between the malfunctions, heat, and rules, I came away somewhat under whelmed with Indiana... ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zoobrothertom 5 #12 September 4, 2010 Did I get it right? You had to show ID just to order food because they serve beer, too?____________________________________ I'm back in the USA!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #13 September 4, 2010 "Malfunction Junction" isn't the worst place to be. It's "Too Late Junction" you have to avoid . . . NickD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
usedtajump 1 #14 September 4, 2010 QuoteDid I get it right? You had to show ID just to order food because they serve beer, too? Had to do that at a concert in Nashville a month ago just to buy a bottle of water. I guess just because they sold beer at the same stand its required.The older I get the less I care who I piss off. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RogerRamjet 0 #15 September 5, 2010 QuoteDid I get it right? You had to show ID just to order food because they serve beer, too? Yup. I kept telling her I didn't even drink and just wanted food and a coke. She kept telling me it didn't matter, she still needed two IDs that matched. My first impressions of Indiana weren't so hot... ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
danchapman 0 #16 May 1, 2011 "Too Late Junction" you only visit once, there is no return. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lodestar 0 #17 May 2, 2011 Roger, I lived in Indiana for a time, the quirky part of that law is that if you have a drink at the bar, and want to move to the table to eat, the waitress or the bartender must move your drink for you, you cannot carry it yourself.... Indiana is anal retentive and has the most archaic laws around drinking I've ever experienced.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ripcord4 0 #18 May 2, 2011 Washington, D.C. has the same regulation about moving drinks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
witesox 0 #19 June 5, 2011 There's a place in the sky called "too late" of which many stories are told by the wiser of the divers the young, the bold, the old No one knows the exact location it's somewhere below a grand Down in ground rush valley where one may read the rising land Should you be riding the ground rush express when maly comes to call don't pass the junction at "too late" or you will eat it all No need to go to your velcro no time to be in doubt There's a chance with the "white angel" Quick! Punch! Get it Out - scribbled on a tarp, Sugarloaf key weekend, 1991 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
