Ripcord: Radar Rescue pt 3.

From the 1960s Action TV Series with Larry Pennell and Ken Curtis with Cessna Aircraft and a USAF B52
Leon Benson Director, Writers: James C Hall & S H Silverman

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• Hollywood
• Skydiving

[Strawberry7Lynn]

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

[canals22]

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

[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! =!)

[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.

[spacepatrolman]

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

[cooler9576]

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