Parachute Training.
Apr 9, 2021 20:38:24 #
delraypiper wrote:
There is no such thing as a perfectly good airplane.
Old airborne trooper from the Viet Nam era.
John D
Old airborne trooper from the Viet Nam era.
John D
Yeah, you're right. I worked on them for twenty years in the Navy. It took a lot of maintenance to keep them flying safely. And they still fell out of the air sometimes. I would rather know something about the use of parachutes than to just hope and pray.Apr 9, 2021 20:43:15 #
Craigdca wrote:
Nice shots! I like the last one the best. 
Thank you Craig. I appreciate it!
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Apr 10, 2021 12:13:13 #
Nice set, Yuma is the Army sky diving school. Ft Benning is the Airborne jump school.
Apr 10, 2021 12:53:22 #
Bultaco wrote:
Nice set, Yuma is the Army sky diving school. Ft Benning is the Airborne jump school.
Oh, OK. I didn't know there was a difference. Thanks for the info.
Apr 10, 2021 13:14:24 #
Amielee
Loc: Eastern Washington State
Retired CPO wrote:
Thanks Mike. No, I think these guys are part of the Army jump demo team, or wannabees. But they are using the Jump School facilities at Yuma.
Yuma Proving Grounds hosts a special warfare training center that teaches high low parachuting for the Army Special Forces and the Navy Seals. They run several classes each year and students learn to egress aircraft at very high altitudes and free fall to low altitude opening.
Apr 10, 2021 13:43:55 #
Amielee wrote:
Yuma Proving Grounds hosts a special warfare training center that teaches high low parachuting for the Army Special Forces and the Navy Seals. They run several classes each year and students learn to egress aircraft at very high altitudes and free fall to low altitude opening.
Thanks. I didn't know that. We spend winters there sometimes at the on base RV Park. We have watched them doing that many times. Every once in awhile they do demonstration jumps and they are GOOD!. They have an X marks the spot target to land on and they come in about 20 seconds apart. The guy just landing has to run out of the way to make room for the next guy, and the next, and the next. Amazing! I did a couple jumps when I was a young man and decided that wasn't what I wanted to do on a regular basis, but it was fun! But I was no where close to the skill those guys have.
Apr 10, 2021 14:08:44 #
Wonderful Chief, I went through Jump School in 1962 at Ft. Benning Georgia
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