Ugandan Paras take it to a whole new level
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Ugandan Paras take it to a whole new level
Uganda's independence day event
Para No2 takes his position literally on landing...
, bit windy there..
Para No2 takes his position literally on landing...
, bit windy there..
As regards the OP: wind not as briefed / predicted?
Nasty environment with mix of structure heights.
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.
Scary to watch.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
