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No ETA: The Pioneering Days of Skydiving
By: Dick FortenberryeBook Publisher: AuthorSolutions
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Why would anybody want to jump out of a perfectly good, functioning airplane? Ask any sport parachutist in the world that question and you may find a different answer every time. For Dick Fortenberry, his love of parachuting began long before he joined the US Army at age eighteen and attended jump school with the 77th Special Forces Group. In his fascinating memoir about his journey to eventually becoming one of the original members of the Golden Knights, Fortenberry describes the rigorous training that led up to his first jump and to receiving the coveted silver wings on his chest, the parachute patch on his hat, and "Airborne" on his shoulders. As Fortenberry chronicles the details of how he rapidly excelled in the sport of skydiving, he offers an exciting glimpse of what it was like to feel the wind in his hair, the adrenaline as he quickly approached the ground, and the fear when his parachute malfunctioned. No ETA: The Pioneering Days of Skydiving shares the intriguing personal story of one man's journey in the early days of sport parachuting that ultimately led to three world championships and an appearance on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
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| Title of eBook: No ETA: The Pioneering Days of Skydiving | |
| Release Date: 07-06-2011 | |
| Publisher: iUniverse.com |
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No ETA: The Pioneering Days of Skydiving
Chapter One
"Holy shit, what now?" I would find that this phrase would follow me around like a wounded water buffalo and play a big part in my next two careers. It covers such areas as "What the ...! Where the ...!, Why the ...!, and How the ...!, and is usually uttered when, in aviation terms, you run out of airspeed, altitude and ideas all at the same time. Only one other phrase emits more total frustration and in some cases, finality, and that's "Oh Shit!" But on this day, December 28, 1960, I was trying to figure out why my parachute was tilting so badly and why I was hanging at a 45 degree angle in the harness! Just a few seconds before, I had been filming Danny Byard in a 120 mph freefall over Sicily Drop Zone, Fort Bragg, North Carolina with an 8 millimeter movie camera strapped to my helmet. At 2,200 feet, I pulled my ripcord to open the parachute. Instead of the normal, steady, 3 to 4 "g's" we experienced during the opening shock, I felt two separate jolts. Now I was watching, with some concern, as my parachute was going through stages of opening and closing. I figured that I had a 50/50 chance (a lot of things I do don't add up) of hitting the ground during the open phase. I also figured that this meant I had a 50/50 chance of hitting the ground like a sack of you know what. I didn't like the odds!What led up to this predicament occurred about three months prior when Loy Brydon, a fellow member of the Special Warfare Center Sport Parachute Club, and myself, found out that the Air Force had 300 B-12 type survival parachutes that they were going to cannibalize. Loy and I got in his pickup, hired a U-H
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