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  • Parachutes and Associates- Kellys Mooresville IN

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Steve Ross on Fri May 6 18:01:13 2016
    On Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 8:36:42 AM UTC-4, Steve Ross wrote:
    Hello, Anybody out there who jumped at Kellys in the 70s and early 80s. Steve Ross D-7165

    November 2, 1980.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Jan 10 08:39:40 2017
    On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 9:01:14 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
    On Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 8:36:42 AM UTC-4, Steve Ross wrote:
    Hello, Anybody out there who jumped at Kellys in the 70s and early 80s. Steve Ross D-7165

    November 2, 1980.

    I believe I was the first to jump there when Parachutes and Associates opened that drop zone in 1970. I was on the staff as an instructor and rigger and jumpmaster for about ten years. I am still in touch with Bob Branch, Dick Pigg, Bill Dazey and many
    of the others who jumped there. Mike Donahoe [email protected]

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Steve Ross on Sat Apr 13 22:19:03 2019
    On Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 8:36:42 AM UTC-4, Steve Ross wrote:
    Hello, Anybody out there who jumped at Kellys in the 70s and early 80s. Steve Ross D-7165

    I made my 1st sport jump there in 1971 ,and last jump there in 1980 , when I came out to interview for surgical residency at Methodist .Still jumping , though a whole lot less .Chuck McHugh, MD C-9520

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  • From Phil Brooks@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Aug 20 05:13:38 2020
    On Sunday, April 14, 2019 at 1:19:04 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
    On Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 8:36:42 AM UTC-4, Steve Ross wrote:
    Hello, Anybody out there who jumped at Kellys in the 70s and early 80s. Steve Ross D-7165
    I made my 1st sport jump there in 1971 ,and last jump there in 1980 , when I came out to interview for surgical residency at Methodist .Still jumping , though a whole lot less .Chuck McHugh, MD C-9520

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  • From Sherri Weidman@21:1/5 to Phil Brooks on Sun Aug 30 07:19:16 2020
    On Thursday, August 20, 2020 at 8:13:39 AM UTC-4, Phil Brooks wrote:
    On Sunday, April 14, 2019 at 1:19:04 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
    On Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 8:36:42 AM UTC-4, Steve Ross wrote:
    Hello, Anybody out there who jumped at Kellys in the 70s and early 80s. Steve Ross D-7165
    I made my 1st sport jump there in 1971 ,and last jump there in 1980 , when I came out to interview for surgical residency at Methodist .Still jumping , though a whole lot less .Chuck McHugh, MD C-9520

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  • From Sherri Weidman@21:1/5 to Phil Brooks on Sun Aug 30 07:21:52 2020
    On Thursday, August 20, 2020 at 8:13:39 AM UTC-4, Phil Brooks wrote:
    On Sunday, April 14, 2019 at 1:19:04 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
    On Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 8:36:42 AM UTC-4, Steve Ross wrote:
    Hello, Anybody out there who jumped at Kellys in the 70s and early 80s. Steve Ross D-7165
    I made my 1st sport jump there in 1971 ,and last jump there in 1980 , when I came out to interview for surgical residency at Methodist .Still jumping , though a whole lot less .Chuck McHugh, MD C-9520
    My then husband, Victor Weidman, jumped there in the 70s. We came down from Purdue. Im sure I have photos. Sherri Weidman [email protected]

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  • From Stonewall Jackson@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 24 08:19:09 2022
    Greetings,
    I flew into Kelley’s many times durning the 1970s while going to school at Vincennes University. I would visit my grandmother that lived across the road from the golf course. If any body has pictures of the field/restaurant they would like to share I
    would greatly
    appreciate it.

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  • From John W Samples@21:1/5 to Steve Ross on Sun Mar 6 10:52:41 2022
    On Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 8:36:42 AM UTC-4, Steve Ross wrote:
    Hello, Anybody out there who jumped at Kellys in the 70s and early 80s.
    Steve Ross D-7165

    I did a story for WFYI-TV Channel 20 around May of 1980 a few weeks after a fatality at the field. It was my first jump and I nearly nailed the pea-gravel pit. I did a follow-up a couple of weeks later and put the mic in the pit for my closing stand-up,
    but I got cocky and missed the entire airport by nearly a mile. Also, the jump-master had either a bad day or a wicked sense of humor; he dropped me opposite of where he should have based on the wind test.

    John Samples
    [email protected]

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  • From Bruce Bowman@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 6 13:16:47 2023
    I jumped there in 1980 with the IU Skydiving Club.

    Bruce

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  • From Bruce Bowman@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 8 05:10:10 2023
    If anyone is still looking for photos I have some from 1980, taken under canopy of my 3rd jump.

    https://www.facebook.com/bruce.bowman.96/posts/pfbid02kT7v4upxHXz55rQLJxXaaVBp8BWf1H6GLvYCRQbtvYi8rjfLWRs2vqu5CdnLEXhRl

    Bruce

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  • From Riley Greenup@21:1/5 to Bruce Bowman on Mon Apr 17 13:16:53 2023
    On Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 8:10:12 AM UTC-5, Bruce Bowman wrote:
    If anyone is still looking for photos I have some from 1980, taken under canopy of my 3rd jump.

    https://www.facebook.com/bruce.bowman.96/posts/pfbid02kT7v4upxHXz55rQLJxXaaVBp8BWf1H6GLvYCRQbtvYi8rjfLWRs2vqu5CdnLEXhRl

    Bruce

    Bruce, I'd love to see the photos--I live on the site of the old airfield now--but for some reason it's not letting me view them. is there any way you could put them in a google drive folder or email them to me?

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  • From Riley Greenup@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Apr 17 13:19:16 2023
    On Monday, January 27, 2014 at 9:42:16 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
    On Saturday, October 27, 2007 7:36:42 AM UTC-5, Steve Ross wrote:
    Hello, Anybody out there who jumped at Kellys in the 70s and early 80s. Steve Ross D-7165
    Does anyone have any photographs of the DC-3s that were used at Kelly Field in Mooresville? Or anything that might show the strip itself. I'm trying to document this airfield before it's lost to history. Thanks! Phil

    Phil,

    Did you ever finish your documentation of the airfield? If so, is it available somewhere I could access it? I live on the site of the old airfield and have been going nuts trying to learn about it but cant find a single thing other than this thread here.

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