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WhiskeyVictor36(at)aol.co
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 Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 1:35 pm Post subject: Caterpillar Club |
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John h / Denny Rowe / & all,
I had never heard of this club. Thanks to John, I learned some history today.
Bill Varnes
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Audubon NJ
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| Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 6:44 pm Post subject: Re: Caterpillar Club |
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Vintage Parachute of WWII
Local jump Club
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undoctor
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| Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 8:03 pm Post subject: Caterpillar Club |
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Wonder if they have an Honorable Mention membership for falling 1200' without a parachute. Only seems fair.
Dave Kulp
Bethlehem, PA
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On 6/25/2013 5:35 PM, WhiskeyVictor36(at)aol.com (WhiskeyVictor36(at)aol.com) wrote:
[quote] John h / Denny Rowe / & all,
I had never heard of this club. Thanks to John, I learned some history today.
Bill Varnes
Original Kolb FireStar
Audubon NJ
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pj.ladd(at)btinternet.com
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| Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 1:32 am Post subject: Caterpillar Club |
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Never heard of Switlick. I was under the impression that Irvin Co. was the starter of the Caterpillar Club and in fact it had to be an Irvin chute involved.
I see that both Switlick and Irvin claim the honour.
I have only known one member of the club. He was a guy from whom I bought an Olympia 2 glider back in 1965.
He was a top class gliding competitor and while thermalling a glider below him surged up and stuck its wing up through the floor of his glider and out through the canopy and then broke off.
He took to his chute and it is rumoured that he could be heard over 3 counties cussing the other competitor all the way down until he landed.
The other glider landed hard in a wood but the pilot got away with it..
Incidentally about a week ago a light a/c at a local field had trouble and tried to get into a school playing field. He couldn`t make it but he had a chute fitted to the plane which he pulled. The whole plane descended into a couple of back gardens and the pilot was OK.
I think this is the first time this has happened in the UK.
Pat
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russk50(at)gmail.com
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| Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 1:02 pm Post subject: Caterpillar Club |
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That Vintage Parachute must have been fairly early in WW2. They've been using the T-28 for decades! -- saved a lot of lives in WW2.
Been more research & improvements on that chute than any other in history, by far. I made 35 jumps with one, no problems. Great piece of equipment. Fully trustworthy.
Russ
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