Photo Album ......... images of our youthBob Dowling.......Bob with a ‘static line’ load.Packing area.......Gate 5 Packing & Manifest area...... c 1975Students?????Experience regulars checking out new ‘student’ canopies.Dove load.....Kevin, PY, Wobby, Malcolm, Jacqui, Clive and Paul. A Winter load....Check out the ‘latest’ in B4 rigs........ c1976 Penny & Gill......“Is that a ripcord handle....Gill ?” The ‘Dead Centre’...Thruxtons’ aclaimed ‘accuracy’ pit..........circa 1974/75Image descriptionsTo see an enlarged picture, just hover the mouse pointer over the thumbnail image.........................The images provided here span a period of 20 years and focus on the sport of ‘free fall‘ parachuting at the Thruxton airfield.............................To make a contribution, email your photos to Jacqui Wright using the link below. Amendments, suggestions related information relating to this website can be emailed to Jacqui at ......... j.wright476@btinternet.com
Bob Dowling......Bob, a serving member of the Armed Forces and, qualified Free Fall Parachute instructor, prepares to despatch his students from an Islander
The Packing and Manifest area....Near gate No 5 on Thruxton airfield, was the designated Packing and Manifest area, throughout the RSA years........................Jacqui and Paul repacking the student rigs for the next load.
Students ??????New student rigs having been modified for Free Fall parachuting, needed checking out by the more experienced jumpers...........................Ian, Robbo, Jon, Neil
The ‘Dove’ aircraft...The Dove, one of the best jump ships in the country, hauls a mixed load to altitude..............................Kevin, PY, Malcolm, Jacqui, Clive, Paul and others sitting in relative comfort, in the big suits and hard hats of that era
The latest in B4 rigsEven in the depths of winter, experienced and students alike, pursue their search for thrills and spills.............................The student here sporting the industry standard ‘B4 equipment’, a modified ex USAF pilot’s parachute containing a C9 canopy.
Penny & Gill patiently waiting to go..........Girls in arms.......One on ‘static’ line, the other having progressed to ‘Free Fall’, patiently wait on the Manifest line for another trip to err........ altitude??
The ‘Pit’... one of the finest in the country.Basking in the sun around the ‘accuracy gravel pit’, spectators watch the progress of competitors...........................Mid 70’s, the hay-day of classic ‘style & accuracy’ discipline.Robin, Geoff, Roger.
Photo Album ......... images of our youth
Bob Dowling.......
Bob with a ‘static line’ load.
Packing area.......
Gate 5 Packing &
Manifest area...... c 1975
Students?????
Experience regulars checking
out new ‘student’ canopies.
Dove load.....
Kevin, PY, Wobby, Malcolm,
Jacqui, Clive and Paul.
A Winter load....
Check out the ‘latest’ in
B4 rigs........ c1976
Penny & Gill......
“Is that a ripcord
handle....Gill ?”
The ‘Dead Centre’...
Thruxtons’ aclaimed ‘accuracy’
pit..........circa 1974/75
Image descriptions
To see an enlarged
picture, just hover
the mouse pointer
over the thumbnail
image.
........................
The images provided
here span a period of
20 years and focus on
the sport of ‘free fall‘
parachuting at the
Thruxton airfield.
............................
To make a
contribution, email
your photos to Jacqui
Wright using the link
below.
Amendments, suggestions related information relating to this website can be emailed to Jacqui at ......... j.wright476@btinternet.com
