"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ...
Dale wrote:

Okay, I'm in Alaska so it's a different time zone..maybe that's it. He
said 1975, up here that's closer to 30 years than 5 years. G

I expect that's a typo - probably 1995. A Queen Air went into a house down near
Ron about five years ago carrying jumpers. The news had something about W&B, the
number of people on board (something like 18 jumpers), and the fact that it wasn't
supposed to be flying without a door.

George
And we all know how accurate the news media is? I've got a thousand
plus hours in a Beech Queen Air and can't even begin to imagine
stuffing 18 pygmies without parachutes in it! Even a Twin Otter gets
cramped with 18 and that isn't without stacking them one on top of
another. I did a "floater" jump that has been used for many posters
and there were 13 jumpers outside a Twin Beech near Parris, CA back
about 1985. That has nearly the same interior dimensions as the B-80
and it was stuffed full with jumpers. W&B was not the issue....it was
pure volume of bodies.
Ol Shy & Bashful

George Patterson
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that
you look forward to the trip.