Comments on: Up and Away for the Airborne

By: CarlosV

CarlosV — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:27:15 +0000

I agree with Ruckim, nothing more exciting than jumping out of a perfectly working aircraft! Hooah! “ASA Lives!”

By: LTCSTAN

LTCSTAN — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:35:37 +0000

We’ll save the planet, but lose the war.

By: Rey A.

Rey A. — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:12:59 +0000

For those of you unfamiliar with the history of the Airborne this is an old, very old, concept. The British first used ballons in the Second World War because of a shortage of suitable airframes and continued to use them post-war. During the 70’s the concept was explored here in the United States because of the fuel crisis and the difficulty in obtaining aircraft for training the reserve component airborne units.

By: Rhys F

Rhys F — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:29:22 +0000

it would make a fine first boot camp jump training course, low stress, calm easy jump and focus on landing right :D once the landing sklls and manuvering around is learnt, then the next stage is the more expensive plane based jumps.

By: ruckim

ruckim — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:16:52 +0000

Sure ‚it is an option,but not exactly realistic,you need to feel that slipstream,and get buffeted around,to see your buddies below you,smell that fuel smell,feel the wind,the noise,the prop blast,if someone could duplicate all of this,then they would have a real winner.

By: jimbo

jimbo — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:10:59 +0000

Good idea… but jumping from a static ballon and a moving aircraft is totally different experience.. Sure is better than those static towers im sure! (not even sure if they use those anymore). If you could mix the two im sure it would work out to reduce the costs..