I don't check all the posts, so this one may already be on the site-

GA jackass?

http://www.sunbeltsecuritynews.com/2CRI ... 18-Skydive

That receiving plane was pointed straight down,.....wonder what the airspeed was?

That hasn't been posted before to my knowledge.

Pretty entertaining...when's the last time you deployed a drogue chute and pointed your Cessna straight at the ground and simultaneously helped drag a hippy into the cabin?

he didn't hurt anyone. I thought it was intresting to see!

Wow those are some crazy longhairs! that prop windmilling away 4ft in front of a moving LZ would make me nervous.

Can you say "Salad Shooter?"

Yee haw.

Gump

With the drogue that was deployed the speed was around 120 mph. The jumper approached "flat and stable" with a little bit of a baggy jumpsuit. His face to earth terminal velocity would be around 120 mph.
The pilot of the recieving airplane was Troy Hartman a very competent jumper as well. When I flew at Perris in '96 he was into competitive skysurfing.
He definetly wouldn't want to overshoot that program.
The same thing has been done with winged suits and a Pilatus Porter. With in flight beta you don't even need a drogue with the Porter.

Yes, I'd say these folks were more than good.

I imagine your point about the porter in beta, but keep seeing a tail up hammer head.

How do you practice and learn?

GR

He did just what I'd do if a hippie flew up to my plane and crawled into the cockpit... throw him right back out.

svanarts wrote:He did just what I'd do if a hippie flew up to my plane and crawled into the cockpit... throw him right back out.

Noticed this was about air-to air transfer . In McCaran airport is a 172 that
flew for something like 30 days straight day and night without landing. Seems one of the old Casinos sponsored such a stunt. Hacienda Hotel I think it says on the side.

182 STOL driver wrote:

svanarts wrote:He did just what I'd do if a hippie flew up to my plane and crawled into the cockpit... throw him right back out.

Noticed this was about air-to air transfer . In McCaran airport is a 172 that
flew for something like 30 days straight day and night without landing. Seems one of the old Casinos sponsored such a stunt. Hacienda Hotel I think it says on the side.

That would be correct. See it everytime I go through there. AOPA did a nice article on it last year.

lowflyin'G3 wrote:.....The same thing has been done with winged suits and a Pilatus Porter. With in flight beta you don't even need a drogue with the Porter.

Check out the opening scene in (I thnk) Goldeneye, one of the not-so-old James Bond movies anyway. Pretty cool.

Grassstrippilot wrote:

182 STOL driver wrote:

svanarts wrote:He did just what I'd do if a hippie flew up to my plane and crawled into the cockpit... throw him right back out.

Noticed this was about air-to air transfer . In McCaran airport is a 172 that
flew for something like 30 days straight day and night without landing. Seems one of the old Casinos sponsored such a stunt. Hacienda Hotel I think it says on the side.

That would be correct. See it everytime I go through there. AOPA did a nice article on it last year.

Their official record is 64 days, 22 hours, 19 minutes, 5 seconds. The record was set in 1959, and I cannot imagine anyone ever breaking it. Living for two months in a 172? Dear God.