1971 Nationals/World meet

What do you think???  Is the USPA interested in the specifics surrounding the disappearance of the USPA flag and the State of Oklahoma flag from the flag pole in front of the building at the Tahlequah airport during those particular events???  This heinous and despicable crime certainly needs to be addressed.   

5 hours ago, SCS422 said:

What do you think???  Is the USPA interested in the specifics surrounding the disappearance of the USPA flag and the State of Oklahoma flag from the flag pole in front of the building at the Tahlequah airport during those particular events???  This heinous and despicable crime certainly needs to be addressed.   

Hi Larry,

The World Meet held in Tahlequah was in 1972.

Jerry Baumchen

PS)  Hey, Larry; I just found this:  Throwback Thursday: Rare Footage of The 1972 World Parachuting Championships | TEEM (jointheteem.com)

Bummer I was off by a year but I was there.  I see Bob 
Westover in that video and Rich P.   I am missing 1 or 2 of my log books and am trying to piece things together from memory.                                                                                                                           

5 minutes ago, SCS422 said:

Bummer I was off by a year but I was there.  I see Bob 
Westover in that video and Rich P.   I am missing 1 or 2 of my log books and am trying to piece things together from memory.                                                                                                                           

Hi Larry,

It gets more difficult every year.

Jerry Baumchen

PS)  Before our time:   And if you’ve wondered to yourself whether the Nationals ever included a beauty contest, the answer is, “Yes, in one year. 1962.”

A Short Look at a Long History—The USPA National Championships

That was Jerry's trademark jump, 10 man to 2 five mans and back to a 10 man.  It's still a good jump!  I see Chuck Wickliffe in there also,  I organized a 20 man over Elsinore one weekend and it got time to go and chuck came up to see and said " I have to pass on this load Larry" and I asked him why and he said " You left Patty off that last load you organized and she is P.O'd and doesn't want me to go". I said "Chuck the load was full and I would have to drop a lot better jumper than her to put her on it". He said "I know but that's the way it is she doesn't want me to go and is raising her;l over it".  After that she and I never got along and she would never include me on any of her big stars she organized.

O.K. there's what happened, it was 1972 and myself and other people had flew up from Elsinore in spikes beech.  

at the end of the meet we were deciding what to make  memorable for us.  As I remember it there were two NG troops there, one leaning up against the flagpole and another at the entrance to the building.  I had my good friend Sam Marshall , later of visions team, give me a leg up. on the flagpole and I climbed up and undid the two attached flags , USPA AND Oklahoma , and brought them back down, mind you this was WHILE the guard from the National Guard was leaning up against the flag pole asleep. I think we also got the wind sock and stuffed them into the nose of Spikes beech.  We had them on display at a Bar in Sunland, Ca. for a long time.