My favorite Steel Pot

[androck14]

That's a hell of a breeze to blow a steel helmet five feet laterally while it's falling five feet!

[BEAR]

Yep, not many jumps called off at Ft. Bragg.
Of course that technique couldn't be used with the K-pot because it was sooo much "lighter".
BEAR

[androck14]

O, right. I got it. I catch on pretty quick if you just give me enough time.

[BEAR]

I've observed that very few folks who collect that stuff ever bothered to serve their own time.

I collect helmets because some were mine, some my dad brought back from WWII and the others were cheaper than buying guns.
I think my avatar tells my service, my dad's service and my son's service.
FarmallH that is one good looking fixed bale M1. You make me jealous.
BEAR

[snakehunter]

Made a great windmeter too. At Ft. Bragg if the DZ saftey officer thought the wind was too high, he would draw a 10 ft. diameter circle in the sand and then holding the steel pot chest high he would drop it in the center of the circle. If the wind blew the falling helmet outside the circle the jump would be called off.
Sometimes they would go ahead and drop the wind dummy just to make certain. As the wind dummy (cherry 2nd Lt.) disappeared over the horizon they would then call off the jump. Good training for the second looey.
BEAR

At Ft Campbell the wind on the DZ was _always_ 4-8 knots, regardless.

[John Sukey]

Colonel so and so, Weather control officer
Captain so and so, Turbulence tester
Lieutenant so and so, Wind dummy