usmcobra, have you ever been inside a plane that is used for skydiving? I lost track of how many times I have heard that "perfectly good airplane" line. Let's just say, you aint never seen our planes.
Are you trying to say they are NOT Perfectly good airplanes?
And here I thought just the doors were missing?
A friend of mine was a pilot for jumpers. They were at altitude and had a real engine failure. Since the pilot would need to glide back and do a dead stick landing he turned around to tell the jumpers to jump. There were no jumpers, when the engine failed they jumped. Smart lads.
Roger that usmcobra. I remember a certain C180 that we had to hand prop to get it started then it conked out at 1200 feet on climb out. We hopped & popped and the Cessna still beat us down, dead stick.
By the way are you a snake doctor? I was. In the Army, 67Yankee20, AH-1G Cobra mechanic.
Regards