Ugandan Paras take it to a whole new level

[NutLoose]

Uganda's independence day event

Para No2 takes his position literally on landing... :ooh:, bit windy there..

https://twitter.com/wesrono/status/1579525239067017218

https://twitter.com/wesrono/status/1579525239067017218

[Ohrly]

Allies that Russia can be proud of.

[nevillestyke]

At least there was one bog-standard landing.

[bugged on the right]

Idi would have been proud of them. "What the hell goin on in the hub of the universe? The crack meat bomb squad dropped in the wrong place by revolutionary pilots. "

[langleybaston]

At least there was one bog-standard landing.

Hope someone was using the crapper!

[VictorGolf]

At least No 2 went through the "motions". Literally.

[Nigerian Expat Outlaw]

https://youtu.be/DVdLMXXHfVA

Nigeria is almost as skilled.........

NEO

[Lonewolf_50]

https://youtu.be/DVdLMXXHfVA
That does not appear to be a display jumping team, more like a regular training run. (I admit I am guessing)
As regards the OP: wind not as briefed / predicted?

[langleybaston]

That does not appear to be a display jumping team, more like a regular training run. (I admit I am guessing)
As regards the OP: wind not as briefed / predicted?

If their Met. is as good as their aiming, may well be that.
Nasty environment with mix of structure heights.

[meleagertoo]

A W A

[212man]

https://youtu.be/DVdLMXXHfVA

Nigeria is almost as skilled.........

NEO
first video looks like Nigeria to me too - flag on hill at 46 seconds.

[dixi188]

I remember a Biggin Hill airshow around 1970 where the Red Devils mis-judged the wind and most landed in the crowd or car park. The only one that landed on the display area got his parachute caught in a Spitfire's turning prop. Fortunately the pilot cut the engine just in time and IIRC the guy got away with a broken finger.
Scary to watch.

[Kent Based]

first video looks like Nigeria to me too - flag on hill at 46 seconds.

That's the flag of Honduras. 🇭🇳

Lots of blue and white around the stadium and on some of the parachutes.

[treadigraph]

The only one that landed on the display area got his parachute caught in a Spitfire's turning prop. Fortunately the pilot cut the engine just in time and IIRC the guy got away with a broken finger.
Scary to watch.

Believe that was Charles Masefield's Mustang... think it was the same very windy show where Maurice Seree managed to get his Tin Parachute (Rallye) flying backwards.

I was at a show at West Malling when a D Day drop re-enactor suffered a canopy malfunction after leaving the Dak, cut away and pulled his reserve; allegedly he landed in the bouncy castle and handed the attendant 10p on his way out... I didn't see any of this, just read about it later and suspect there may have been just a hint of embellishment in the tale! Don't know if airsound was the commentator and remembers it, more likely John Blake/Jerry Mead/Bryan Wolfe I should think.

[mikemmb]

Believe that was Charles Masefield's Mustang... think it was the same very windy show where Maurice Seree managed to get his Tin Parachute (Rallye) flying backwards.

I was at a show at West Malling when a D Day drop re-enactor suffered a canopy malfunction after leaving the Dak, cut away and pulled his reserve; allegedly he landed in the bouncy castle and handed the attendant 10p on his way out... I didn't see any of this, just read about it later and suspect there may have been just a hint of embellishment in the tale! Don't know if airsound was the commentator and remembers it, more likely John Blake/Jerry Mead/Bryan Wolfe I should think.

It was indeed Charles Masefield's Mustang, it was in 1968 and a very close shave which I watched in amazement as the parachute wound around the prop dragging the parachutist in to the running engine. Luckily the prop stopped just in time!

[dixi188]

I think that incident changed airshow rules so that no engines are running during the para drop.

[NutLoose]

I think that incident changed airshow rules so that no engines are running during the para drop.

Not that it made a difference in the rest of the U.K.

1987

ANDOVER, England (AP) _ A woman making her first parachute jump was killed Sunday when she fell into the swirling blades of a helicopter as she was landing, police said.



The helicopter, which had been hovering near the ground, was flipped onto its side by the impact, and the two men inside suffered minor injuries.



The woman, who was not identified, was one of five people from a parachute club taking part in a training drop at Thruxton airfield, near Andover, Hampshire, southwest of London.



″The helicopter was hovering a few feet above the ground when the woman parachuted down,″ said police Inspector John Dawson. ″Near the end of her descent, she went off course and landed on the helicopter.



″We have no idea why she went off course because a trainee before her carried out the exact same jump and landed in the designated area without any problems,″ he said.


https://apnews.com/article/2e5ced11a31098248aadb5f1000c840c

[cynicalint]

Seems their navigation was up to scratch though! They all found the ground eventually

[nevillestyke]

'twas Honduras, Independence Day.

[megan]

Compatriots were engaged in a little bit of combat one day in which an OV-10 was shot down. The big boss orbiting over head directing operations took it upon himself to rescue one of the crew members, rather than detailing one of the boys to do so, landed close to the guy where upon his chute inflated and dragged him through the tail rotor. Death in combat? The boss, so the bar story went a little later, was the boss asked (told, ordered?) the copilot to write him, the boss, up for a Silver Star. Stuff you have to do to add garnish to your promotion prospects.