Re: Bertie's Sockpuppets and Sup****ters

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> "Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries" <ni...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The coldest August I ever spent was long ass climbs to altitude,
sitting by the open door in a DC-3 circling over Galveston, turning
blue and hypoxic for the formation jumps for the Texas big way
record...and worrying about condensation in my HI8 camcorder.

Sometimes I almost miss it.



sometimes?!? ...........almost?!?....   ;-)

Yeah, for me that was one of the best things about DC-3 loads. Nice long 
ride to jump altitude that covered a lot more real estate than the
turbines. 
I seem to remember a DC-3 from Texas visiting occasionally. Can't remember

where or which plane. I vaguely remember invasion stripes and brown paint 
but I may be confusing that with another. I do remember "Lady Luck". I
think 
that one was from Texas too, but it had brown camo paint. I know that some

of the 3's that were used as jump ****ps were repainted from time to time
for 
movies, etc.  My home DZ acquired a newly refurbished DC-3 in early 1993, 
IIRC. Unfortunately, after losing an engine just after take-off , it did a

gear-up landing in a field, skidded sideways across a roadbed and ended up
2 
or 3 rows into an orange grove a few months later (no serious injuries)
and 
was scrapped. At the time it crashed you could still smell the new paint
so 
it wasn't there long. I remember jump ticket prices went to $13 for 13,500

ft. but we usually went to 15k. A great deal while it lasted! I took a few

photos of it before (and after) it crashed. I'll scan and post them on the

binaries if I can find them. Beautiful plane.

BS, TP