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Post by Karl Welteke on Feb 11, 2011 10:19:41 GMT 8
Presently, Feb-2011, there is an email exchange in regards the possibility of having a parachute drop onto Corregidor. I don’t have any opinion about the feasibility, not being qualified. But I do know that as recent as 2005 there was one. I also know a C-130 was used, I seen it but failed to take a picture. I didn’t know that is was going to happen, the Philippine Government and the American Embassy failed to inform me or I would have been ready! He, he! This event happened on the 60th Anniversary of liberating Corregidor from the Japanese. My family and I were there and here are 11 images: s74.photobucket.com/albums/i265/PI-Sailor/Corregidor%20by%20subject/CI%20Subalbum%20No%201/Paratroopers%20jump%202005-03-02%20on%20Corregidor/My note to the people who are interested to repeat it: it will takes recourses, that nobody wants to pay for, in my opinion. And you need permission from the Philippine Authorities. You need to start with Corregidor Foundation Inc. (CFI), the manger of the Island.
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Post by EXO on Feb 11, 2011 19:16:43 GMT 8
yes, there is a proposal from the Red Devils to jump on 16 February, 2012. There has been a discussion about the size of the proposed landing field, the former athletic field. This involved comparing the field as it is today with the field as it was in 1945. Steve Kwiecinski advises that the current open area is 175 x 125 yards, making a diagonal of 215 yards. Bill Calhoun recalled that when he jumpmastered three sticks in 1945, the wind speed was 24 knots. The proposal presently spoke of a C-47 being used for the jump. I pointed out that the troopers jump sticks of 7 or 8 and that their aircraft was over the jump zone for 7 or 8 seconds at most. Getting seven men through a C-47 door in seven seconds is quite a feat. (Jumping 7 men from the ramp of a C-130 is, by comparison, relatively simple. ) That timing over the landing field was possible in 1945 because the area without full tree cover was significantly longer than 215 yards. The proposed type of canopy is critical to making a jump. The canopy type currently proposed is T10, steerable rounds, MC1-1 Series. Approval in principle has been given by CFI.
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