Odyssey picks up Skydiver in flight

[earthstaraircraft]

Hi Allan, et all
I thought you guys might like hearing about this stunt!
Happy Flying
Mark
PS; don't try this at home!


One of my costumers, Chuck Ross, has an Odyssey. He did a stunt for
Riply's Believe it or not, were he and another plane went up to 12,000 and he had
made a way to block the prop from turning wile the engine was shut off,
and had a 100 foot rope with an 8 foot diameter parachute hooked to the glider
tow hook on the tail, to keep the plane from going faster than 120
straight down. He removed the doors and shut off the engine. nosed it over to a
vertical dive with the parachute deployed, than the skydiver jumped out of
the other plane and they fell together filming all the way down. the skydiver
climbed in and chuck went to release the parachute only it got stuck. he
went to start the 503 only it wouldn't start, to cold and fuel had gone out
of the float bowls he puled up the nose and set up a glide and landed with
out incident just short of the runway at Paris CA. They did it 2 more times
and got the shoot to release and the engine to start, allowing them to
complete the pick up and fly off in to the sunset.
I have a dvd if you are interested.
Happy Flying
Mark

[blaswichk]

I'm interested! Not that I would try such a thing, but fun to watch and share with my other Gull gang.

kb

[tgulldave]

WHOOOEEE
That's a great story. Good to know they're still crazy down there in Paris. This story is gonna get repeated.

[fgayford]

Hi Mark
Did they change their under wear between shoots?
That would be a great flick to be put on you tube!
Fred

[Rahul]

i use a joby tripod, rugged, fits anywhere, maximizes attn to a scene with a
40x zoom with low jitter
this video sure must be hot, one to bring out a gull's nine degrees of
freedom will be pretty good too
where a gull gently surfs the top of clouds, wingtips leave a vortex in the
cloud and lands at a beach
seems Chuck had to pull the red handle, was it a tailfirst landing? neways,
offline for a few wks now

Rahul

[earthstaraircraft]

In a message dated 1/21/2011 11:46:41 PM Pacific Standard Time,
rahul.chou@gmail.com writes:

this video sure must be hot, one to bring out a gull's nine degrees of
freedom will be pretty good too
where a gull gently surfs the top of clouds, wingtips leave a vortex in
the cloud and lands at a beach

seems Chuck had to pull the red handle, was it a tailfirst landing?
neways, offline for a few wks now


Rahul





Hi Rahul
Are you looking at a video no the web of chucks Skydiver pick up?
I have it on DVD if you would like one for $5 to pay for the shipping.
Chuck did not have a parachute on the plane. He was warring one. but did
not have to use it.
The parachute I was talking about is 8 feet in diameter to keep the plane
from going faster than 120 mph straight down.
Happy flying
Mark

[blaswichk]

Mark,

Can I send you $5 for the shipping, and another $5-10 for your effort to copy it??

Kess

[cossitt.alan]

I'd like to do the same.

-Alan Cossitt

>From my iPhone. Please excuse typos and terseness.

[earthstaraircraft]

In a message dated 1/22/2011 5:50:12 PM Pacific Standard Time,
kessb@wavecable.com writes:

Mark,

Can I send you $5 for the shipping, and another $5-10 for your effort to
copy it??

Kess




Sure That would be Great!
Thanks,
I will send it right out to you.
What is your address?
Happy Flying
Mark

[earthstaraircraft]

In a message dated 1/22/2011 6:01:50 PM Pacific Standard Time,
alan.cossitt@frontier.com writes:


-Alan Cossitt

>From my iPhone. Please excuse typos and terseness.