Galleries per Year

Browse photos and notes by year!

1998

1998 – July 31-August 2 Location:    Skydive Houston – Waller Plane – two Otters 3 twenty way teams, 6 ten-way teams,  1559 jumps made The banquet was as the local Lion’s Club and included a marriage proposal. Rose Wagner fed the masses for lunch each day. Video: VideoDude- Carl Carpenter, Eathan Edwards, Charlie Bordelon, Glenn

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1997

1997 – July 18-20 Location:    Skydive USA – Wharton Plane – Otters,  Caravan 160 registered – 5 twenty-way teams, 3 ten-way teams,   717 jumps made, 29 it & Chug competitors Video: Video Dude: Charlie Bordelon, Carl Carpenter, Ethan Edwards, Tony Loper, Jeff Patricio, Scott Staib, Glenn Payne The Wharton County Sherriff’s Dept arrived at the

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1996

1996 – July 19-21 Location:    Skydive Dallas – Whitewright Plane – two Otters, Caravan, Porter registered – 5 twenty-way teams,  5 ten-way teams, 25 Hit & Chug Video – Robin Wilcox, Charlie Bordelon, Art Ingrao, Andrea Pieterse Laird was flying out of the country most of the time and my job responsibilities grew and required

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1995

1995 – June 23-25 Location:    Skydive America – Beaumont Plane – two Otters from Dallas and Eloy, Queenair, 210 5 twenty-way teams,  4 ten-way teams, 1500+ jumps made, 38 people entered Hit & Chug Had been making plans to hold the meet at Spaceland which had moved from League City to Anahuac, TX but they

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1994

1994 – August 30 – September 2 Location:    Aggies Over Texas – College Station Plane – Otter, Caribou, Queenair 210 registered – 7 twenty-way teams, 2 ten-way teams Video –Scott Staib was Head  VideoDude , Richard Smith, Robin Wilcox, Bob Slezinsky, Charlie Bordelon, Art Ingrao, First year adding 10 way with the same rules.   It

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1993

1993 – August 20-22 Location:    Skydive Spaceland – League City Plane – Spaceland’s two Twin Otters 210 registered – 8 teams,  One team withdrew and fun jumped. Getting harder to select dates and work around holidays, the world meet, Herd boogie and Nationals. Dallas petitioned to have the meet in Dallas.  They boycotted. Did some

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1992

1992 – September 18-20 Location:    Skydive America South – Beaumont Planes – Otter,  C47, Caravan 210 registered – 8 teams Team video by 8 camera men – Roger Pickens, Ollie Reamy, Scott Rabbit Staib, Richard Smith, Charlie Bordelon, Carl Green, Robin Wilcox, Bob Moore.  Chuck Akers handled the team photos. Our advertising got the attention

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1991

1991 – August 30 – September 2 Location:    Skydive Spaceland – League City Plane – Otter, DC3 , Beech Queen Air, T- Bo 220 registered – 8 teams,  1987 jumps made In addition to the flyer mailouts and advertising in skydiving publications, we sent out lots of press releases to local new media to help

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