Honorable Mention...
Anyone one else jump this bird?
- Thread starter Gunpowder
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Uncle and his crew exited one of these over the Pacific...B-24 Liberator
Is it me or is this one fugly nose...only a crew could love..
Platforms I've jumped over the years:
UH-1H Iriquois
UH-60 Blackhawk
CH-47 Chinook
MH-53 Pave Low
CH-54 Tarhe aka Sky Crane (people pod)
C-7 Caribou (Forgot all about this one)
C-47 Skytrain (Goonie Bird)
C-123 Provider (loudest SOB of them all)
C-160 Transall (French Jump school)
C-130 Hercules
MC-130H Combat Talon
C-141 Starlifter, both A and B models
C-17 (Longest flight and jump in history-18 1/2 hrs non stop w/3 IFR)
OV-10 Bronco (wildest one of them all!)
Jump master'd all of them except the C-119, C-160 and OV-10.
C-17 is the "mac daddy cadillac" of them all.
As far as the best blast, water jumps have them all beat, hands down.
And out of all if them, the C-123 absolutely sucks donkey balls. I hated that damn thing.....
UH-1H Iriquois
UH-60 Blackhawk
CH-47 Chinook
MH-53 Pave Low
CH-54 Tarhe aka Sky Crane (people pod)
C-7 Caribou (Forgot all about this one)
C-47 Skytrain (Goonie Bird)
C-123 Provider (loudest SOB of them all)
C-160 Transall (French Jump school)
C-130 Hercules
MC-130H Combat Talon
C-141 Starlifter, both A and B models
C-17 (Longest flight and jump in history-18 1/2 hrs non stop w/3 IFR)
OV-10 Bronco (wildest one of them all!)
Jump master'd all of them except the C-119, C-160 and OV-10.
C-17 is the "mac daddy cadillac" of them all.
As far as the best blast, water jumps have them all beat, hands down.
And out of all if them, the C-123 absolutely sucks donkey balls. I hated that damn thing.....
Platforms I've jumped over the years:
UH-1H Iriquois
UH-60 Blackhawk
CH-47 Chinook
MH-53 Pave Low
CH-54 Tarhe aka Sky Crane (people pod)
C-7 Caribou (Forgot all about this one)
C-47 Skytrain (Goonie Bird)
C-123 Provider (loudest SOB of them all)
C-160 Transall (French Jump school)
C-130 Hercules
MC-130H Combat Talon
C-141 Starlifter, both A and B models
C-17 (Longest flight and jump in history-18 1/2 hrs non stop w/3 IFR)
OV-10 Bronco (wildest one of them all!)
Jump master'd all of them except the C-119, C-160 and OV-10.
C-17 is the "mac daddy cadillac" of them all.
As far as the best blast, water jumps have them all beat, hands down.
And out of all if them, the C-123 absolutely sucks donkey balls. I hated that damn thing.....
I remember my first C-123 jump and thinking...damn, this thing sounds like a garbage can....
Jumped this one too (1983-85)
This one too.
I wasn't going to list all the versions of the 130 I've jumped... but I will say the MC-130E, H, and F versions were fun if you only had 12 people jumping.
yeah.... extract was usually more than a month away for us... sometimes it was via combat boot express too...
I jumped off the garage roof with an umbrella, broke a toe and got an ass-chewing from Ma. 
We just called these 53's. There weren't many 34's left when I got there. Most had been shot to pieces.
We just called these 53's. There weren't many 34's left when I got there. Most had been shot to pieces.
Platforms I've jumped over the years:
UH-1H Iriquois
UH-60 Blackhawk
CH-47 Chinook
MH-53 Pave Low
CH-54 Tarhe aka Sky Crane (people pod)
C-7 Caribou (Forgot all about this one)
C-47 Skytrain (Goonie Bird)
C-123 Provider (loudest SOB of them all)
C-160 Transall (French Jump school)
C-130 Hercules
MC-130H Combat Talon
C-141 Starlifter, both A and B models
C-17 (Longest flight and jump in history-18 1/2 hrs non stop w/3 IFR)
OV-10 Bronco (wildest one of them all!)
Jump master'd all of them except the C-119, C-160 and OV-10.
C-17 is the "mac daddy cadillac" of them all.
As far as the best blast, water jumps have them all beat, hands down.
And out of all if them, the C-123 absolutely sucks donkey balls. I hated that damn thing.....
Dang...forgot I a couple of Sky Crane
jumps meself...
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I don't have many jumps on unique planes, but the C-47 stands out in my old man brain:
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Now you are making me remember shit.
Jump school was all 130's.
C-130E/H's
C-141B
CASA 212
C-47A
C-47T
MC-130E/P/H
KC-130F
OV-10
UH-1H/N
UH-60
MH-60
C/MH-47
CH-3
HH-53
U-17
C-208 (U-26)
UV-18
Turbo Kodiak (?)
WC-130 (which was cool for me because I flew on that particular aircraft as a crew member earlier in my career).
Jump school was all 130's.
C-130E/H's
C-141B
CASA 212
C-47A
C-47T
MC-130E/P/H
KC-130F
OV-10
UH-1H/N
UH-60
MH-60
C/MH-47
CH-3
HH-53
U-17
C-208 (U-26)
UV-18
Turbo Kodiak (?)
WC-130 (which was cool for me because I flew on that particular aircraft as a crew member earlier in my career).
Jump school...1st two jumps were 141's, 3+4 were 130's and the last was a 141..I recently found a copy of my jump school manifest...my memory isn't that damn good
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