| Bill Cole ---- Canada | Email |
03/18/13
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Glad to see so many of you old timers are still around. I made my 860th jump 50 years and 1 day after my first at the same DZ north of Toronto. My daughter Crystal is now doing PFF, and I hope to hook up with her at least once this summer ( 2013 ).
I had 5 heart by-passes in 2010, but that hasnt stopped my breathing entirely...just a bit.
Bill Cole D-41 Canada , aka chuteless 2 and 3
02/21/13
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Knet Was here..
Greetings from Argentina.. bye
10/18/12
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Hi,
Wow, great site. My first jump was from a C-119 USAF Boxcar but my first skydiving jump was in 1957 with a former army jump master and chute packer named Jack Waldock (Boron, CA). We jumped over Yermo, California and near Hinkley (both desert areas). We used T-7 chutes with slots we cut into them for steering (quite primitive by today's standards). We had a rather large emergency or reserve chute strapped to our chests. My first skydiving jump was a doozy at that. I jumped from a Piper Cub, back seat, left hatch (I was in the Marines at the time) I am 6' 5" tall and weighed the same then that I do now, 200 lbs. Getting out that door was insane. One other man was up there with me for his first jump. The pilot had a spare emergency chute on his passenger seat. I went out with an old motorcycle helmet and a lot of dumb guts (laughing here). It was like squeezing marbles out of a toothpaste tube but I got out and after my chute opened I looked around for the other jumper. He wasn't to be seen. I thought maybe he'd gone in because I could see the plane landing. I missed the target by a half mile (desert winds were something else to contend with). My group came racing at me with a jeep and when they got there they were relieved to see I was alive and well. They then asked where my helmet was. I didn't even know it was gone. It turns out that when I pushed off the strut of the Piper than my head hit the horizontal stabilizer and tore it off or bent it so radically it wasn't usable. So the pilot pleaded with the other jumper to stay in the plane to help balance it. All turned out well.
Many great stories after that. Some pretty scary, most of them rather fun. But I was in early and still have a card from the new Parachute Club of America with the membership number of 134.
09/01/12
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Hi, To Don fox. I Made another Jump on my 60th. birthday.. Things sure have changed.
07/24/12
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My Father was Jim Root who started jumping from 1959-1963. Para -Rescue & Survival Specialist USAF 1954-1974. Combined Military & Sport Jumps 776. NO.776 was Military 1969, he was seriously injured.
If any one remembers my dad let me know. Thank you
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