Skydiving 1960's Lew Sanborn
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- This is a film called "Now Its Skydiving" filmed by Lew Sanborn (D-1). It was produced by Lane-Cole-Dietz according to the credits. I wonder if the Cole is Bill "Chuteless" Cole. I found this film on eBay in 16mm and had it digitized.
Enjoy!
I was there in 1962 and had four jumps
Boy, does this bring back memories! I made my first jump at Orange in1962 and Lew Sanborn was my instructor/jumpmaster.
I started parachuting a bit later (1972) in Australia. Many of the basics seen in the film here were still around then. Jumped with the famous Jerry Bird from 'Wings of Orange' team in Western Australia in 1976/77.
Pretty wild to see this. Just earned my A-licence at this very dropzone in 2021. The center field looks nearly the same today.
Its nice to see film of the way it was back in those days. I think we had it better than they do today, and it was more opf a challenge because not many people could actually fly back then.
Bill Cole D-41 Canada.
Yea but it was a hell of a lot more dangerous back then. One of the guys at my drop zone started jumping way back in the mid 60s, guy has seen some shit.
Jumped at PI in Lakewood NJ 71 to 77 went from telsan tern to para cloud. Best time and parties of my life, beer and large formations we're the rule. Married got kids grandkids response ability enough Said. D-4614.
Ouch! "People who care about sports, care about whiskey!" I think they would need it after landings like those... :)
That's proper parachuting that is! Jump boots, roundies with a TU mod and a PLF at the end! I love it!
Memories. i was jumping a lot in 1962-63 with the Fort Gordon Sport Parachute Club (C-1415), was in on the first baton pass and first 3 way we pulled off. Was Training and safety officer for a year. Static line, drcps, series = thanks for posting this. After a 46 year break, went back and got 6 jumps in the new era last year - to far to travel and too expensive for me these days, but damn, free fall is still great, and so are the people that do it. Got a little tunnel time too. At 78, I'm getting a little long in the tooth for today's jumping, wished I lived a bit closer to a good training dz -I'm 250 miles out of Byron. Still would like to get back to it, but probably won't.
This video is PRICELESS!! Thank you for posting!
I was the first person to ever fly with a camera in Canada. It was my 19th jump for stills, and my 22nd jump for 16mm film. My gosh, those weere great days.
Thought that was Simon Wykeham-Martin.
Just found this. Many years since my last jump, 1968. Jack Cupp D84
It looks like the guy who is holding the altimeter up to the camera may be Daryl Henry, former Canadian mens champion for quite a few years..
Classic footage LewD one. I was a mere lad when you did this. Digger
hahah This is like the original Red Bull. Thanks for sharing!
And those canopies turn like sports cars! Everything's relative.
thank you Lew great stuff!!!
Haha!! Love it!! Imagine flying video in the 60's.....
Much respect!!!
The only thing that's never changed is rush you get doing it .
I saw Mike Swain last week and he has the chuteless Bill Cole film. I'll find out if it is available.
Looks to me as if the negative is backwards. Pulling ripcords from the left and such.
Thanks for clearing that up. It was my assumption that you were the Cole mentioned. My bad. BTW, I was going to digitize my 16mm copy of your chuteless jump but sadly my footage was lost in my latest basement flood. Is there a digitized copy of your jump somewhere?
LOL... a Double L (or similar) mod to a round canopy makes it a "sports car"? I suppose for the time it was! (I owned and jumped a UT-15 for fun well into the "Ram air" era so I'm not unappreciative of earlier designs! )
The Bill Cole on the credits of that film was not me. I have no idea who it was, but definitely NOT me
Bill Cole D-41 aka chuteless 2 and 3
I found this video because my grandpa asked if anyone around the DZ heard of Lew Sanborn. He says Lew basically put together the team that he (David DeCima) was on.
Brandon Rockwell Lew is a legend.
"Carstairs"... the Red Bull of yesteryear...
5:08 I don't know how he managed to stand up after this :/
😂 That was brutal
I felt the pain in my legs just watching it 🤣
say yes to whiskey jumps
Carstairs White Seal for the man who cares, and Thunderbird for the man who doesnt.
There was a time when Sex was Safe and Skydiving was Dangerous. mike D-33093
Wow. Any idea of the year of production? My father's first jump was in 1965 at Orange as was his 744th. That red Norseman was called "Red lead" (N69795). I have some nice shots of it on the ground with another white Norseman both owned by Parachutes Incorporated. he had a red and white canopy (not the one with the triangles pictured, but like the other). I wonder if it's him. Do you know who all appears in the film?
No idea who is in the film. I didn't started skydiving until 1975. Not sure of the date of the film. Thanks for the info about the Norsemans.
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I always downed a bottle of Carstairs before jumping.
I was at a DZ years ago (Horak Field, Elberta AL) and we would jump into the Florabama bar. We did a quick 4 way, landed on the beach, and went in to enjoy ‘skydiver pitchers’ of beer! I gave my logbook to the older guy. Guess who? Lew Sanborn A1 D1!! I said I wish you told me who who were before the jump, Lew said ‘you never asked!’
I have jumped from Elberta, AL a few times and yes it was great getting a free picture of beer from the Florabama bar. Great place to land with the white sugar sand!!!!
that looks like skydive kapowsin
23 static line jumps and 14 more jumps before I feel stable in the 1971 be
That beats me, I had about 18 static line and at least 10 freefalls before I could fall stable...same thing every time, reach, flip over, T-10 deployed through the legs....1976 Toronto... Loved every minute of it....went on to make about 1200 jumps.
awesome where is JRB
OOO RRRAH
ptb