Wife's 1st jump

**cessna152towser** · 8th August 07, 09:41 AM

Well the title certainly made me look; that could have had at least two other meanings

Thanks for posting these action packed photos.
I've watched people do this but never had any notion of baling out - closest I ever got to it was in the Air Training Corps where we were required to jump off the gymnasium wallbars and practice how we would land if we ever had to parachute out of a Chipmunk training aircraft.

**ChromeScholar** · 8th August 07, 09:46 AM

Chipmunk training aircraft?

What are they training the chipmunks to do?

**Big Paul** · 8th August 07, 09:47 AM

Too cool!

If you do go kilted sky diving, please do not go regimental! I saw a video once of a naked male sky diver..... It was very funny, but it looked painful!!

**acstoon** · 8th August 07, 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by Big Paul

Too cool!

If you do go kilted sky diving, please do not go regimental! I saw a video once of a naked male sky diver..... It was very funny, but it looked painful!!

I've got a wonderful freefall photo of 3 ladies & 3 men skydiving nude... quite comical... but decorum forbids me posting it here.

And before you ask, no, I was not in the aforementioned photo.

**Wompet** · 8th August 07, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by cessna152towser

- closest I ever got to it was in the Air Training Corps where we were required to jump off the gymnasium wallbars and practice how we would land if we ever had to parachute out of a Chipmunk training aircraft.

Originally Posted by ChromeScholar

Chipmunk training aircraft?

What are they training the chipmunks to do?

Well, Acstoon did say his family are members of the Loyal Order of Lemmings ...

Nice pictures by the way.

**MysticMead** · 8th August 07, 12:12 PM

Originally Posted by Mike1

I'm still not convinced of there being any reason to step out of a perfectly-running airplane. At least until the pilot has turned out the seat belt light at the gate.

how do you know that the plane is running perfectly?? after all... there are thousands (or millions) of tiny explosions taking place in that engine... one of those might decide to not be tiny....

and for those that say the same about a perfectly good airplane... the one I jump out of has a big hole in the side where a door should be... thus making it not perfect anymore..

in all seriousness... the plane and pilot were on the ground before I was... and I was taking a short cut.. in the video of my first jump you could see the plane wing over and dive straight down...not so sure I'd want to ride with him...

my favorite saying is.... if riding in a plane is flying.. then riding in a boat is swimming, to experience the element get out of the vehicle!

50-60 seconds of a roaring wind...followed by complete silence (once the chute opens).... I love it

**cessna152towser** · 8th August 07, 12:24 PM

Chipmunk training aircraft?

What are they training the chipmunks to do?

Canadian designed though many were assembled in Britain, this is a Chipmunk. The type saw service with the RAF from 1950 to 1996 (and a few are still on charge for training the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight pilots). Many are now in civilian ownership, the Chipmunk is often referred to as the poor man's Spitfire.

**starbkjrus** · 8th August 07, 12:25 PM

Originally Posted by ChromeScholar

Beat me to it, Mike1...

Ditto!

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

No no no no no no.

**acstoon** · 8th August 07, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by MysticMead

and for those that say the same about a perfectly good airplane... the one I jump out of has a big hole in the side where a door should be... thus making it not perfect anymore..

HaHa... I'll have to remember that one...so true.

Originally Posted by MysticMead

in all seriousness... the plane and pilot were on the ground before I was... and I was taking a short cut.. in the video of my first jump you could see the plane wing over and dive straight down...not so sure I'd want to ride with him...

I managed to get a ride back down with the jump pilot a year ago... trust me... jumping out of the aircraft at 14000' is FAR less exciting!
My last jump, while freefalling, the pilot did his wingover and redline zoom... he passed about 1000' below us, slightly to the right. Yowzers... quite a sight.

**Abax** · 8th August 07, 12:56 PM

I stopped jumping shortly after college . . . it didn't turn out to be familially (that's probably a word) responsible. But anyway, in 500 jumps, I had to jump out of imperfectly working airplanes a number of times. A DC-3 had an engine fire a couple of times, a C-185 ran out of gas and the engine was not running anymore (twice). One time over Denver, an occupant had such a case of gastrointestinal distress that the pilot went on oxygen for comfort and we all jumped out early for the same benefit.

Skydiving memories recall some of the best times in my life.

Abax