Posted on 04/19/2021 8:06:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin
When I was a kid I thought they had enough parachutes on all passenger flights.
AS we used to say years ago, “It is not the fall that kills you, it is that sudden stop.”
I almost passed a half-bottle of diet pepsi through my nose.
Beat me to it!
I jumped out of an airplane once.
Damn near broke my ankle.
Pilot said, “Next time use the stairs like everybody else!”................
“And she ain’t gonna jump no more.”
From the lyrics of “Glory, glory, what a helluva way to die!” (sung to the tune of “Glory Hallelujah”), a standard in the 82nd Airborne division and other static-line jumper-trained units.
(A word to the wise: virtually EVERY special military unit in the US Armed Forces require parachute jumpers. Think twice about interjecting “bird sh*t and fools” among those honorable men.)
We jumped a rather overweight guy using a cargo chute
once. He came down in a corn field and broke his leg.
I wish I had a picture, both the guys helping him off
the field had legs in casts from bad landings.
A man I knew was a Navy pilot. He was a Captain and flew sub chasers. He told me he had a fire onboard once. The crew bailed out, then he jumped last. He said if it ever happened again “ He would ride that burning SOB all the way to the ground.”
“(A word to the wise: virtually EVERY special military unit in the US Armed Forces require parachute jumpers. Think twice about interjecting “bird sh*t and fools” among those honorable men.)”
Did I say anything even remotely resembling that?
(Reserve chute) “If that one should fail me too. I’ll hit the ground before you do.”
Still remember the words from 1974.
My roommate back in ‘81 was cop and it was a slow Sunday and he was on duty so I went for a ride along. A call came over the radio about a skydiver whose chute didn’t open up. He responded to the scene at the local airport. Talk about splat. His head was flat because his brains had squirted out the top, and every large bone in his body was sticking out through the skin.
The folks on the ground said this was his 300th jump and afterward he was so supposed to fly to England to join in with other skydivers to try to set the world record for something. The he was to come home and get married.
As they say in Full Metal Jacket... “no more boom-boom for this babysan”
“Police did not provide a cause of death.”
The sudden stop?
= = =
They are still looking for a Motive.
Live fast. Die fast.
“We jumped a rather overweight guy using a cargo chute once,”
That describes exactly what I saw once. The guy jumped before me, landed in a ditch next to the cornfield and broke his hip on a rock. I watched all from the plane and while coming down on my chute. I saw him fall over, people running towards him, the ambulance arriving, and him gone by the time I landed.
How do you think they've gotten the death toll so high during this phony pandemic?
Everything is coded covid.
This death will be covid too. Count on it.
A couple posters made the statement about jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. That can’t be done except as a sport.
Choosing to launch oneself out of an aircraft might be exhilarating, but it has risks even with good equipment, instructors, and aircraft modified to accomplish the desire. But it is a sport and has nothing to do with any purpose other than sport.
Common passenger airliner doors are about 6 feet tall by 3.5 feet wide. This means that to open the door, one would need to overcome more than 24,000 pounds of pressure — about the weight of six cars or 20 polar bears. Most airliners also use “plug-type” doors that fit tightly onto the door frame.
And opening the door on say a Cessna 152 or a Beech Craft Bonanza may not affect the aerodynamics, but the door opens out so the wind rushing past the nose of the plane washes past the door preventing it from opening more than a couple of inches at best. So the old adage of jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft is a bit of a misnomer. If it came to that, a forced landing is the next step but that is not a perfectly good aircraft.
Sad it happened, but people fall climbing mountains and having a heart event in a marathon happen at about the same rate. And the most dangerous part of flying itself is the trip out to the airport in the car.
Wy69
And yet she will probably be tested for Covid — just in case.
It seemed like skydiving was their form of heroin.
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