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The one thing I remember most but now forgotten is Flamingos. At Freakport and early Quincy Roger gave out free jump tickets for the most gaudy and tasteless camp ground. We had a meeting of the mingos where everyone brought them by manifest during a weather hold. If you had a puptent it required at least 7 mingos. Motor homes had to be circled. At Quincy one year a guy had it perfect mingos Mother Goose with babys Mother Skunk and babys. A white plastic picket fence the lawn gnome with the horse tie-up ring, and of course a bird bath with water. The poor guy went up on a jump to land and see a Baby Ruth candy bar toilet paper and Mountain Dew poured in the bath. I am sure you have seen the color of Mountain Dew in a clear container and the lumpy shape of a Baby Ruth.It worked as it was all tossed out. Also ugly Christmas lights had a nice effect on making a campsite suitably gaudy. I only saw one site at Rantual with the proper spirit for shame for shame.

I also remember you could get a "Pope" in cardinal puff ratings . I remember stating I would not get married until the Pope turned Jewish. We had a Jewish DZO at Gregory MI. in 1976 named Steve Finklestein AKA Steve Fellows. He made Pope at my wedding under Bob "Mutha " Mittig. Iguess a Jew making Pope is almost the same. We started doing "Flip-Cup " at Midwest Freefall if that counts

Jack and Jim Did you forget Iron -clad Cardinal with the sewer pipe, with a handle and bottom welded on. I wrote yesterday but the confuser froze up I was told then ate all I wrote. Does anybody remember Captain Crunch. Turtle and fifth degree Turtle. I am glad someone mentioned our local Canadian favorite "Dead Ants". I agree with the pain part. At the Silver Eagle DZ at Croswell MI there was the game of "Shoe" involving a quarter tossed into a circle of jumpers{drinking involved of course} kneeling on the floor with the biggest shoe or boot in one hand ,then trying to pick up the quarter."OweeeOweee Oweee. Hard to pack in the morning. Long before" Hell Fish" at Tecumseh had Cap-3 the bar in Clinton Mi had drunken pyramids tearing out the suspended ceilings. Mike Johnston now at Deland would do his flame thrower act .He actually started Pete Myks, of the Para-Hawks hair on fire . Pete calmly poured some of his beer on his own head as though nothing happened. No body mentioned "Streaking " towards traffic one mile on a Sunday morning on an official Interstate. It required wearing "Frenchie jump boots" only to qualify Once again Hims Hers and Thems usually done at the worst possible times. A beloved Don "Bergie" Berg of the St Thomas Sport Para-chute Club Ontario did the infamous "Zulu Warrior dance at our wedding in 1976 .Stil funny to watch him pass out on video. l

One I am in the process of making "One of my seven personalities shoots tailgaters and may be driving back from the ammo store. Are you feeling lucky punk?" I had one made and its all faded now "Its obvious thatyour realm of self -importance doesnt go this far I am here and your not" I saw one "Tail-gaters sniff shorts."

I first found about the web site I looked up Salem Michigan in the North west Detroit Heading. It showed an aerial shot from 1973. It had to have taken on a Monday or Tuesday because ther were no cars in the lot between the North hangers and the railroad tracks. The Pea-Gravel target still shows up OK.I used to land Big Bill Webers Delta 11 standing up in it . BBW never got to land under it anytime, as he always had to cut it away. A few previous Michigan DZ,s I jumped at Oxford Gregory Salem Saline La Salle Marine City Croswell Otisville Saginaw Frankenmouth Cagney Oscoda Argentine Napoleon Marshall Three rivers Austin lake Grant Memphis near Swartz Creek Coincidently the web site was listed on the Fandango Fans listed on this forum just below this

It records automatically on our Tivo. I knew I would like it from the theme song. "Ticky Tacky Houses". If people realized how close to reality it is., they would be astonished. Anyone thats prior service will tell you how Beetle Bailey" cartoon is exactly how Army life is,

I totally agree about the one flipping over. I have seen it in person and on film. I always had best luck with a Grabber on rip cord rigs. I put PC's in my Wonder-hogs with no problems on the throw -out. .

We rolled a four-way of the 182 step many years ago. I,ll try try to remember how we did it. I was lying on my back on the with my head towarda the fuselage the second guy out face out with his feet on the edge one handed grabbed my appropriate leg strap the third guy out had one foot on the step and grabbed #2and pushed up to hold us the fourth guy scooted out the door as far as possible. Igrabbed his leg straps. after a pass up shake #2 grabbed my other leg strap and off we went. We never got to try it much after that as the pilot said it was hard to fly while laughing so much.

We came back from a week in Florida and our pipes were frozen from non use. We found out it was from the main feed line out by the street. My city eventually came to our rescue. They had a gasoline driven arc-welder . The y ran the negative ground clamp to the out side faucet ,then touched the positive clamp to the curbside turn off valve . Running a dead short it cleared quickly. They couldnt get to us when we first reported it so they ran a garden hose over the fence to our neighbor water tap to ours. they said let it run about the size of a pencil stream.They also turned of f both meters so he wouldnt get my bill too. I too have a freezing pipe problem in our crawl space do to the dumb ass previous owner. We turn on the washer to see if water is coming through at the outside walls. I put in heat cables and a space heater that we turn on. we turn on the oven timer for 30 minutes and everything is fine. We in Michigan are having the worst cold spell in decades. Iam glad to only have to flip a switch. On e really fine jump summer week-ends I,ll crawl under the house and re-route the pipes. If you believe that I've got some really nice ocean view property in Iowa to sell you. All in all make sure water is still available like with neighbors before assuming its only yours.

After surviving the night jump and the closely followed night water jump at SummerFest last summer, thought you might get out of the pain thing. Tecnically it was anotherr year. About 1981 we waited all day for the clouds to go away and left . About three miles toward home it was severe clear Everyone did a 180. It got down to 2 jumpers to go. It was a very bright hazy day with a fresh coat of snow. I landed first with a total "White Out" and watched my ankle fold under on landing. They guy landing after me said he was glad I was ther moaning and groaning for depth perception. Since then I like to have people on the ground to land next to. PS Tevas dont give you much traction in snow relearned on two jumps at Skydive Tecumseh New Years Day

I got to see it a couple of weeks ago at an exclusive showing {blah Blah}. It was filmed about 7 miles from my house in Hamtramck for hie house. The hardware store was in St Clair Shores . The VFW hall , church and barber shop were also in the neighborhood. He worked at the Ford plant in Dearborn. A definition of a star is when you will go to a movie just because that person is in it. I went for that reason too but also to count the places I knew. I wont say more as not to spoil it for others. Ther are a few things that didnt seem real to my military point of view.

Number three is a carousel I was given one when the owner got married. The canopy lasted longer than the marriage. I also had the yellow and black checker board, the best landing PC I ever had, didnt know it had a name though. I got one of the first MK-1 on the market after the MK-2 was off the market in 1968. the "Red Baron" I still have an origional 1964 Golden Knights MK-1 All totaled I made iver 1500 PC jumps 150 Rags and 120 Delta11,s

I would like to turn this around for one reply as it is this tme of year A friend plowed into the back of a cop car at a traffic light. Still bleary eyed while driving home after a party on New Years day. He was startled by the cop tapping on his window then rolled down the window. He calmly said to the officer "Boy it didnt take you guys long to get here"

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I dont own a pocket protector to be a confuser nerd to know how to make the picture bigger. If some one can explain it on here my son can make it bigger. The attachment was rejected as to big and this was the only time it took it down sized

I was at Kame -Apart {KMart} getting my wifes prescriptions and saw this ad no-one could tell why I was laughing so much. I think its more than just no altimeter. Lets what the total count of "OOPS" there are

That was Roger Nelsons decision. You cant take that up with him though.Was he winn T. at the time since Tecsumeh ,or Danny when he started out. Seems to me he grew up in the Toledo area.One of his most famous blunders was landing upside down by his knees after sliding out of his Jump Shack SST. All the girls said he was wearing strap on dildi "7 from page 84

I am sure they like to be refered to as Vegatations. Not positive though as no one ever talked to me after that.

Ask him if he ever used the name "Winn T Elixsis"? If so PM me back. We had one in Michigan mostly at what is Skydive Tecumseh now He eventually went to SkydiveChicago,but was fired for appearing in in Playgirl magazine. Never knew what tappened to him after that. New Jersey seems to be a good place to hide from your reputation I guess.

In regards to your tandems defintion at the bottom. I heard it from "Gooch" of Joe Webers Pilot crew from "Skydive Oregon" :50 pounds of worn out shit on your back, 200 pounds of stupid on the front,6 or 7 handles, A pilot chute in tow, What could possibly go wrong? I always thank my DZO as he drives home in his Porsche for the worn out gear part. Just kidding about the Porsche ,Its actually a "Yugo" with duct tape

On 09-07-1967 at Richmond field Gregory Michigan out of a cessna -175 that we flew as their C-182 never showed up. A28 foot rag with a derry slots cut in , 24 foot belly wart non-steerable {not until 74-75 you got that luxury} no pilot chute and kiss your ankles on landing boots.AH I yes I remembe rit well.

What kind of vehicle? Is the original available for a pattern? How thick does it have to be? Is it tinted or clear? Some times you can drape form over the old one. Would it need vacuum forming? Where do you live?

Before Christmas a few years ago we went to visit our old next door neighbors new house. Being a good catholic family they had a new kid every nine months and ten minutes. They now had a spinet piano on one end it had kids letter blocks spelling out "First Noel" or something like that . They were watching me play with them. I changed it to say "Fuck You ", thinking they would change it back.A while later we got our card from them all around the piano with the tree in the background too. I guess they never got around to changing the letters back. If I hadnt told them to look real close at the card they would never known and all the relatives didnt either. I always liked the redneck telling his buddy about buying his wife a new washer and dryer for Christmas. "As soon as I git back from hunting with my new deer rifle and scope". Iam going to tie the new 50 feet of clothes-line tween the trees and pitch the old scrub board behind the barn to make room for her new one." One time I took a snow shovel and wrapped paper tightly around the handle . I wrapped it also around the back of the blade. .I spaced the paper apart a little and taped it to the front side too., with a bow too. My wife held it up with a confused look on her face scratching her head. One guy that saw the picture actually said "Well what it?"

I have made a few from C172,S , C182,S ,with the co-pilot seat still in. Just kneel on the floor push the door open a little ,push your left foot on the strut step facing the tail.. That will hold most of the door load Push yourself out more and dive down and back. If you want to do a two-way out of a Mooney thats a little trickier. dont let your fingers go into the assist handle outside while waiting for the second guy to get out. There were cases of fingers being left in the handle of U-206.s by kneeling spotters on accuracy jumps.This was back in Shot and1/2 days luckily P.C.,s were reliable. As far as bandit jumps go. How does the money compare with your rig and money involved in training. The pilot has more just to get into his own plane and all his training. His insurance would be revoked for sure{No Fly}. The FAA wants their part suspended or revoked license{No Fly}. Even if it was just a rental word travels fast {No Fly}. Fines and prison time wortth it to him. Are you willing to take it in the butt for every time he got it dressed in orange. By the way have fun and remember"Its not what you do its what you get caught doing"