One guy lived to tell the tale.

or you could do it whilst still on the ground 🧠

Once in a lifetime taken too seriously

He literally told that joke lol

I did that and I’m alive, pretty short drop tho

I've heard from my friends. They landed mostly reserves after find main being damaged, but landed damaged mains also happens

@@TwilightSun32 i think its a joke about people dying from damaged chutes and not being able to complain about it mate

@@arshenio45 of course I've heard that joke (with minor changes) more than ten times and more than in one language. Let's consider it a hobby - arguing with jokes

the old joke was anyone having doubts about a defective chute in ww2, the logistic men would say, "yeah just bring it back will give you a new one"

@@noidontthinksolol my another hobby is skydiving, just for balance

I thought some paratroops had big packs for weapons, ammo, food, etc, which hung from their waist on a rope long enough that when it hit the ground, it took enough weight off the parachute to slow down the final descent and give the paratrooper enough notice to bend their knees and get ready to hit the ground.

@@grizwoldphantasia5005 is this already in application or you're just saying, i mean that's a great idea

@@veezerrscharnhorst I remember reading about it sometime in the last, say, 50 years and it struck me as pretty clever. But I have no idea what era or country or any details.

It is, and due to the complexity of the physics involved they have to continue to improve it, there are injuries during training such as broken legs. Theres training videos gone wrong if you want to look em up, although be warned, not for the faint of heart.

Isnt it illegal to shoot at someone parachuting tho? 🤔

I've always said that you're never more alive than the first time a parachute opens above your head. I've got 45 jumps when in the 82nd.

Yup and I've heard it speculated that jumping is a way to determine if a warfighter will be able to function when the lead starts flying. I got to jump but was never shot at. "Shot at and missed, shit at and hit". Good ol Ft. Bragg!

bro imagine telling a friend about a guy you know who skydives (who died in one) and say yeah he made 32 jumps and 31 successful landings

Let me guess, WW1 era right?

I thought only the British do that and then regret it later when they realized their pilots kept dying because they don’t have parachutes.

@@dannyzero692 The Military is the Military (Nation = all). The Mil will not act upon something (until the other Mil(s) will act upon it). The Mil will want (equality with other Mil(s) in all Military functions and weapon systems). - Parachutes are just an example. Other items (such a semi-automatic rifles). The Americans did not rid themselves of the 45-70 until other Nations began to use Bolt Action - smokeless powder ammunition. The US went for the 30-40 Craig. The Craig had a beautiful loading system. But, it was inferior to the Mauser. The Mauser was a much superior rifle (and the US copied the action to make the 1903 (in 20-06). The US used a Mauser action for the bolt. In fact, Germany sued the US in International court (and won) for Copyright infringement.

@@dannyzero692 That's a partial myth, which has sadly been spread even on wikipedia. The British were 1 of only 2 nations in WW2 to issue parachutes to pilots of fixed wing aircraft. For most of the WW1 era parachutes were too big, too heavy and bulky to be used by fighter pilots, they were not the "backpack" style design we are used to today. As a result the balloon crews could use them but they wouldn't fit in most fighter planes. The British were the first in the world to have a working parachute design for fighter pilots with the "guardian angel" first being offered to the British in 1915 for assessment. However the top brass of the air corps knocked it back for various reasons including but not limited to worrying about pilots bailing too early and this delayed assessment of the design. However in 1916 Aviator deaths began to increase and solutions had to be found. As such assessments for the Guardian Angel began in 1917 and the parachute was eventual issued as standard kit in September 1918. The Germans also began testing their own "standard parachute" in 1917 and a handful of pilots were issued them in 1918 for assessment the first successful "standard parachute" bailout from a fixed wing aircraft in occurred in June 1918 leading the Germans to officially adopt the design. However due to production problems these wouldn't be issued as standard kit to German pilots until November 1918 just 6 weeks before end of the war. The US military was offered a much more advanced Parachute in 1916, not only did it feature the "standard parachute" design it was the first in the world to feature a quick release allowing the pilot to jump clear of the plane before opening eliminating most of the concerns using a parachute on a plane however the US rejected its adoption and wouldn't revisit it until 1919 as a result no US pilots were issued parachutes during WW1.

@CannedCoochie Bailing out wasn't the sole the concern with the parachute. There were major issues with the weight and size as well as of the design of the release system. Bailing out using Everard Calthrop's original design came with great risk which is why "bailing out too early" was part of the concern. As you had to release it from a container located under fuselage and then immediately jump from the plane. The fear was not that the brass thought men would abandon their mission, the reference to bailing out early, refers to whether or not the plane could be safely landed after being hit. The Brass were concerned pilots might panic and jump out before they properly accessed the damage. At the time the low risk of being unable to land the plane had to be weighed against the risk of pilots dying in an attempt bailout. Lives were not being lost due to a lack of parachute at the time, it was years later when that statistic ramped up.

Or dain bramage

@@serronserron1320 his name was Alfie Vickers. Most certainly didn’t have brain damage.

I'm a former skydiver. (Now I fly the plane for my jumping comrades...) But 16 years ago I saw one of my comrades coming down in a little shower with increasing gusty winds. In maybe ten meters (30 feet) above ground his canopy collapsed and he fell down like a sack potatoes and hit the ground with brutal force. I did some photos of that accident. In the first moment I thought he is dead. But luckily he survived with many severe injuries. And maybe a year after that accident he started again jumping, made his license as a instuctor and is jumping untill nowadays. Me instead haunted that accident so heavily that I decided to end my jumping career and start to fly planes instead. (Ok, at that time I had pretty much lost my interest in jumping) And so nowadays we sit together again in the same plane, he get out and I stay inside to land with the plane... 😀👍

@@MisterIvyMike nice

Talk about taking one for the team

Jesus, 2.72m is like being on the roof of your home and when you get to the edge, instead of using a ladder, you just jump. You're almost guaranteed an ankle injury.

you can bend down and slap your hands with the floor to spread out the impact over a longer period

@@addanametocontinue if you're young and fit and you land correctly then it's fine.

@@NihongoWakannai I learned from video games that you just gotta roll on landing and it'll be fine. Either that or be on a mount, when you land the mount will poof away but you'll be OK.

@@emissarygw2264 Rolling is SUPER important. Always roll if you think it'll be a rough landing. Practice rolling and learn how to. Even a little stupid roll helps so much. Source: I've jumped off lots of things and only broken foot bones once- a time when I didn't roll.

Aww, that's really adorable man !

Go buy lottery ticket

Rangers lead the way.

that's so sweet!

Well why is she in school is she dumb and summer school because school is over my guy and really didn’t have to yell ranger at us

He taught you actually could skydive without a parachute but you don't reach your 73.😆

You're a mad lad. Hats off. Keep it up! I'm working on becoming the fella who flies the perfectly good airplane you jump out of🤣

"This is the best documentary of MILITARY parachute history" 🙂 Sport jumpers do NOT use square parachutes.😉

B-19601

Bill booth's talk at the bpa agm is the best for sporties this is really only military

Hold up I don't remember the sex one but the others I do

Give us a link to the sexy part... 😆👍

@@sonacphotos Apparently it is based on the order in which the army took them into service; both planes weren't even from the same company: Curtiss C-47, Douglas C-47 But I just looked it up

@@sonacphotos Thanks.

I imagine the logic here is that if your legs are apart you're much more likely to land on just one of them, and not fall over to dissipate some of the energy, whereas if they're together you're more likely to land on both, reducing the overall load on each leg, and increasing the likelihood of you falling?

@@MGSLurmey I also belive that by having legs close together, your body and parachute pivot around your feet, leading to less shock having to be absorbed by the legs

Two sticks are stronger than one, as the instructors would say (referring to keeping your legs together).

It's your basic PLF...but I only used ram air sport parachutes. The only time I had to do a PLF was when my main failed and I had to use my reserve chute, which at the time was round.

That's actually a good method of making sure there aren't spies to sabotage the plane

And what does this piece of useless personal trivia have to do with parachutes?!? ⚡😠👎

@@XwpisONOMA Absolutely nothing to those without the secret decoder ring. Did you not receive your secret decoder ring in the morning cereal box? You really should try to buy the right morning cereal box and keep your secret decoder ring collection up to date. My, the giraffe's have gotten rosy of late.

@@grizwoldphantasia5005 I got mine in a box of grits

I wonder if he was ever being persecuted for being associated with Wehrmacht.

@Musa Altariel: Just being a member of the Wehrmacht didn't get you prosecuted, unless you committed a war crime. Most of the German soldiers were youngsters (and later in the war older guys, too) drafted to serve, and not even nazis...

He already did one

He did, the video is called "This Will Determine if You Survive Ejection." He talked about common malfunctions and injuries.

@@DoctorJammer must have been one day that I was on a vacation

Good times in the harness shed lol

sounds like a really lucky injury to gain his discharge with. no capture either, that's nice.

I mean this respectfully not making a snarky joke or anything. Was that planned on being his last jump or was it just his last because of the injury?

@@kuiper921 due to injury. I believe he actually was sent to Japan to guard a warehouse during the occupation once it healed, but continued to cause him problems. This was all towards the end of the war.

@@Ass_of_Amalek this is my remembering of the story from 20+ years ago. I think he was sent to Japan during the occupation after this injury, but he couldn’t jump anymore. He guarded a warehouse for a while but his leg was so bad he wasn’t really useful and was discharged because of it. Again at the end of the war.

It's personal preference. I'd rather not leave a perfectly working airplane while in flight.

The T-10 fall rate was fine, unless you hit a downdraft or carrying too much gear, or being kind of heavy, or landing on specially bad terrain IMO

@@Okipouros that's what I mean. The 10 was great for my jumps. I had more cherries drift to the trees with 11's.

@@banthaboss6390 What does it mean "cherries drift to the trees "?

@@Okipouros so paratroopers get 4 jumps at Benning for their airborne certification. They are quite different at their units. So they "pop their cherry" with their 1st unit jumps.

@@Okipouros and we used to put the dollar cherry pies in most if not every pocket on there acu's and smash them as we load up at green ramp. Hence, cherries.

"then a TU-modified 28' round that was several years " The TU7 was the first "steerable" (and I use that term loosely) I jumped with. From there (and like most,) I went to a Pioneer Parachutes' "Para commander." I might still have one of their old catalogs from 1972 hiding somewhere. A hop-n-pop at 10,000 feet would definitaly be the "slow way down," for sure. 😀

Almost exactly my progression, only I had an old ropes and rings Strato - Star before my Cloud.

It's not the same, skydiver's don't need to PLF on landing because they land soft. They also don't carry 120 lbs of equipment while jumping.

Meanwhile Simon the video printing guy cannot say a simplest Russian words without making it to look like it's an add-on to English.

how would you describe the landing? is it similar to jumping off a bar stool or more of a 1st storey balcony jump?

Just graduated yesterday and can confirm 👍

@@alexnicolaou3579 depends on when you pull your slip. It determines how fast laterally your move and slow is the best because it's sets you up perfectly for a nice PLF . I've had landing so smooth it felt like nothing and some where I got my shit rocked.

The mighty Ungawa is dead? Rangers who have never been through desert phase, paratroopers who have never gone off the tower, the world is a whack-a-doodle place now.

They were following the safety protocols. Unless you are a licensed rigger, you are not supposed to touch another's main. The "student" is supposed to connect the static line or pin, while being supervised by a licensed/competent person. All the same, a trash-packing opens just fine... they want to open. If not, that is why you have a reserve.

I recall seeing video about it here on YT.

We actually have it on our list to make a video about Sky Hook.

*hundreds of people airdropping using steerable parachute* Sounds like PUBG to me

It won't kill you. And hopefully you'll grow out of it in a few years.