On Feb 16, 12:34 am, "Ted" TBBlakeley@comcastDOTnet wrote:
I bought a poster of this sometime ago. I think the whole plane flipped
inverted during one of these attempts and everyone got dumped off. AWESOME
poster!!

"Ol Shy & Bashful" wrote in ...
On Feb 14, 6:42 pm, "gatt" wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enz2Y...eature=related

(Jumper joy-riding on left engine nacelle)

As soon as "Ogrish" popped up I expected to guy to tangle up in the
empennage or something. What do you guys think of this?

-c

Intreresting but not spectacular. People been doing similar ever since
the 20's and a lot of wing walking sans parachute. That takes some
balls!
I've got pics of 13 jumpers crawling around outside a Twin Beech. Was
over Perris,CA back in the 80's

Oh hell yes.

I was shooting video for the 1994 Ballunar Fest in Houston and we were
jumping an older DeHavilland Caribou... The group of jumpers was
Deguello, a 20 person competitive jump team with about 35-50 persons
all told either in or out at any given time.

The PIC told the team capt that we could crowd as tight as we liked on
the ramp prior to exit as there was no way in hell we could stall his
aircraft, even jumping at 13K+ ft. This is filed under famous last
words...

I'm 1st out hanging on by literally a toe and my right hand while the
gang o' 40 is piling up on the ramp. I'd been either practicing or
jumping in competition for the past 4 years so I'd gotten used to the
'feel' of a group giving the exit count...as this one got to 'ready' -
'set' = 'go' I felt a beautifully timed change of pitch just as 'go'
was uttered...I mean it was if the pilot had been listening in and was
an excellent jumper...the ramp literally fell away beneath my 'toe!'.

On the ground after I found a few battered jumpers some of whom had
made their last jump for the weeknd having endured gashes and what not
upon the exit which I found was not the smoothly choreographed thing
of beauty after all but rather was a floundering en masse exit of a
plane in a high speed stall. Seemed that nice pitch out was the plane
stalling.....

So we did it again at a higher speed...but this time I was on trail
exit...and this time I got to not only stumble, fall and land on my
chest while watching the 'clump' fall away but got to experience
jumpers stumbling, tripping and stepping on me while I hung over and
finally pulled my way over the edge of the ramp to exit the Caribou.
Big fun...so much for 'you can't stall my aircraft'.

I'm sorry, but if you plant 40 jumpers at an avg weight of ~190lbs on
the ramp (all ON the ramp) of a Caribou...the plane is gonna
stall....because while they might start out spread out
comfortably...when the count starts they will literally be hugging
each other en masse. Think of an orgy only closer.

The exciting part was watching the video fo the jumps...each jump
captured (from the 1st exit video) a shot of the plane as jumpers came
out...and on each jump the port side was trailing a little
smoke...then a little more...then aliitle more....then a lot....

On sunday the PIC said...'enough' and we didnt' jump...he
taxiid...rotated...and blew a jug and did a nice 180 and landed with a
fist sized hole in one fo the cylinders.

Sigh. The good. Old. Days.