Ripcord: Radar Rescue pt 3.

[AlistairTheRunner]

And just for the record, though obviously a normal piston Cessna would not make 21000 feet, I think you would just about survive on a freefall from that height as long as you were on oxygen all the way up, even if you dropped the mask on exit.

But okay, the radar guidance part is sheer fantasy.

[AlistairTheRunner]

This amazing series had me transfixed when I was 4 or 5 and I said that one day I would be a skydiver. No one believed me but in the late 70's I took up the sport, became an instructor and made well over 1000 jumps. I never forgot Ripcord but haven't seen an episode before now.

Okay so some of the details may be laughable, but I don't see the need for dickhead know-all comments. The altimeter is unwinding at about the right rate (6 secs per thousand feet or so).

[Xplorinuk]

Interesting... the B-52 cockpit is actually a B-29 cockpit!  =!)

[canals22]

@Xplorinuk I noticed ! Maybe it was secret stuff in those days ... :)

[Strawberry7Lynn]

@Xplorinuk I believe you're right, well spotted!

[niflap]

4:44 unwinding slow for a sensative altimeter. Especially if that's a 100' incremental hand. Not very consistant w/ terminal velocity.

[9bahai9]

I haven't seen this episode for at least 37 years, or any other episode for that matter. But I remembered all the essential details. Thanks for posting it! I couldn't wait to take up skydiving and I did years later. But I got mad at my instructor after my third jump and never went back. He was a total jerk.

[IAmDonar]

One of my first memories of TV. I almost forgot.

[cooler9576]

why the hell did you cut the credits? My grandfather, Verne Williams was the head stunt man

[niflap]

Even w/out prop-wash, u still have relative wind

[sm9847]

Buckley took off his mask so he could sing on the way down. Ken Curtis was the only member of the Sons of the Pioneers to take a role like this. All the others who left for an acting career stayed in westerns.

[captain1976]

As bad as the acting and technicalities were, I credit this series for the inspiration to become a skydiver. Watching this as a little boy inspired me to actually do it when I got old enough and I still jump each and every weekend. Thanks for posting it.

[spacepatrolman]

@captain1976 DONT TRY THIS AT HOME BUNGIE JUMPING WITH A VENETIAN BLIND CHORD AROUND YOUR NECK SOME KID DID.

[niflap]

Buckley's lucky he doesn't pass out & fall to his death after throwing away his oxygen.

[niflap]

that was a right skid.

[museack]

Didn't realize that radar would bounce off of human flesh.....lol.

[niflap]

2nd parachute opening was faked. One of the few things on this show that are.

[niflap]

Buckley's lucky he didn't pass out & wake up dead after removing his oxygen mask.

[niflap]

160kias at FL210 w/ a missing door?

[museack]

@niflap

Not to mention some poor rabbit down below that got gonked in the head.

[niflap]

& normally aspirated engine?

[niflap]

@niflap Not to mention a normally aspirated engine. I'm not sure that can even be done it a modern Turbo Centurian, after the drag of a missing door is factored in.

[niflap]

Looks like they didn't have top hinged doors in the early 60's