Little Rock Air Show 2010 - Troop drop FAIL

[SuperVindicator1]

i was on the 5th chalk and landed in a tree ankle is messed up now but it was awesome

[andocrates]

um.... we meant to do that?

[frehsechris]

i was on the first bird 3rd jumper landed in the top of a tree



[ohsnappwnt]

army hurpdurp!!!

[a929586060]

liitle rock ,不错

[TheJonnykane]

thats airborne baby. no pain, no gain.

IF YOUR'E NOT INFANTRY, SAVE YOUR FACE, YOU KNOW YOUR SILLE ROLE.

[airbornessgp]

that is why in Special operatins we use JMRS not allowing the aiforce to release us.

[apoco]

Someones career is over after that.

[90bizzle]

oh hey i was in this, 2nd to last bird, oh boy was this jump fubar from day one, thanks to the fly boys who dropped us off center about 90-95% of the jumpers landed in the trees, and whoever said there were no serious injuries is a fool, i know someone who broke their back on this jump. Everyone knockin on our JM's and how fucked our intervals were, we jump when told and its a bitch to hold and interval when turbulence was as bad as it was.

[RaceFord777]

I was there! hahah That was crazy! 400 guys... some of them broke ankles and what not.

[deano7104]

spacing on the sticks is shocking... watch the british paras to see nice even stick spacing... respect to all airborne though!

[pathyskeeter]

My bro was working the flight line when it happened. 300 out of the 400 dropped were in the trees. The wind calculations were 3 to 4 hours old...used the same from the "J" model drop earlier in the day. FAIL.

[00Billy]

You should see our JM's....these guys could teach accuracy...lol

[hongkongluna]

Why dont they give you guys square canopies and teach you how to steer to the landing area? It's not that difficult. I wouldve been pissed if they dropped me with such a bad exit point.

[hongkongluna]

@hongkongluna Nevermind. Steerable squares would mean collisions and entanglements with that many guys in the air.  Blue Skies :)

[ABNSapper89]

i was supposed to jump on this one but the plane broke down en route... had to turn around and fly all the way back to bragg on three propellers. i guess we can only jump out of "perfectly good aircrafts" instead of broken ones... lol

[brokenrob]

I just missed having to go on this jump. A few guys got hurt in my unit but nobody too bad. That DZ is very narrow something like this is bound to happen. Everyone wants to blame the airforce but we have jumped in worse winds. I'm just glad this didn't happen in 2008 when I did this air show.

[Tthekingable]

that jump master owes alot of beers.

[MadRigger]

Some of these guys came out holding hands. way too close together. Even after riding each other's canopies, they could not get directions from one another?

Much love Airborne brothers Semper Fi.

[mikeraburn907]

WOLVERINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!

[chargamer]

AIR FORCE FAILS AGAIN

[bigmasaquata1]

@chargamer army

[chargamer]

@bigmasaquata1 It was the Air Force that planned the jump and Air Force Jumpmaster that said when to jump.

It's not the soldiers faults.

[iangates]

@chargamer Really, the more details the better!

[bigmasaquata1]

@chargamer well i wouldnt know lol i just know that my friend was the fifth one off the first plane and dropped on a tree lmao...X.x

[beatsiz]

Gotta love the Autofocus on that D3100/D7000...

Freaking lazy amateurs. Turn the ring. TURN THE RING.

[iangates]

@beatsiz

I'll be sure and let him know :) It was a older 6MP Nikon DSLR with a huge 80-200mm lens. He said the clutch inside was going out..

[beatsiz]

@iangates I'm confused, how do you shoot Video on an older Nikon DSLR with Autofocus? The D3100 and D7000 are the only Nikon DSLR's that shoot Video with Autofocus.

[iangates]

@beatsiz This video was shot with a Canon T2i with a Tamron 18-270mm. I had it in live auto focus. It's not the greatest lens, but it has a wide range. The other camera you hear is the Nikon.

[beatsiz]

@iangates I'm confused. How do you focus while shooting video on a T2i? Live Auto Focus doesn't work while filming... Maybe you lost focus just as the other guy hit focus on his camera? I don't know.

[iangates]

@beatsiz

If you half hold the shutter button it will find focus while shooting video.

[beatsiz]

@iangates I'm quite shocked right now... I've had my 7D for 8 months and I shoot Video with it on a Daily basis but I never knew you could focus while shooting... I have to go try that out.

Even so, I think focusing manually is faster, even compared to the D3100 or D7000 with Full Time Autofocus.

[beatsiz]

@iangates I'm quite shocked right now... I've had my 7D for 8 months and I shoot Video with it on a Daily basis but I never knew you could focus while shooting... I have to go try that out.

Even so, I think focusing manually is faster, even compared to the D3100 or D7000 with Full Time Autofocus.

[beatsiz]

@iangates I'm quite shocked right now... I've had my 7D for 8 months and I shoot Video with it on a Daily basis but I never knew you could focus while shooting... I have to go try that out.

Even so, I think focusing manually is faster, even compared to the D3100 or D7000 with Full Time Autofocus.

[beatsiz]

@iangates I'm quite shocked right now... I've had my 7D for 8 months and I shoot Video with it on a Daily basis but I never knew you could focus while shooting... I have to go try that out.

Even so, I think focusing manually is faster, even compared to the D3100 or D7000 with Full Time Autofocus.

[geniemist]

Green oooon!!! GO GO GO GO -.-

[NWguy83]

Hope they disapline the pilots

[ewoload]

@NWguy83 It's more the Nav than the pilot but only the load will escape with minimal blame if they were doing something wrong

[g33kzy]

My balls just shrunk, that shit is scary as the guy who works on Cell towers climbing some 1700ft, no thx...just got dizzy thinking about it.

[njbianco]

@g33kzy at least the paratrooper have a parachute

[greytooth898]

One of the girls at my school ( I live in Conway, AR), who didn't go to the show saw 10 C-130s flying over her house and thought the US was being invaded.... hahaha

[danman8585]

I came out of the eighth plane.

[greytooth898]

@danman8585 Did you end up in a tree?

[TheFlyingpolcat]

Too bad you don't know that there were less injuries with jumpers falling into the trees on Sunday than on Saturday when many landed on the runway. Besides, the trees are on the DZ.

[iangates]

@TheFlyingpolcat

I did not see the Saturday drop. I heard a lot of jumpers landed on the runway and got F'd up. I wish them the best. You aren't going to catch me jumping out of a perfectly good airplane:)

[linuxn00b2004]

@iangates

Haha, well, good for you I suppose. However, if you've ever flown in a C-130 for any extended length of time, you know it's not a perfectly good airplane. In fact, it's rather loud, uncomfortable, and at low altitudes, nausating. :-P

I was the 5th jumper, left side, on the very first bird. It really wasn't a bad way to spend a day working, even if it was on the weekend though.

[greytooth898]

@iangates There is no such thing as a perfectly good airplane.

[iangates]

@greytooth898

Your right! These were E and H model C-130's. :]

[somejarhead]

aha my uncle eric is one of those jumpers

[bjennie06]

I was out there helping pull them out of the trees. Amazingly no one was seriously injured and no bones were broken. We were talking to the jumpers and the ground was so hard and dry they would have preferred to land in the trees.

[jsyn1230]

@bjennie06 well depending what kind of trees it is you can have paratroopers with branches going through his chest...happened in normandy

[TheJonnykane]

ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!