A pin from a parachute company, possibly Switlik or Standard Parachute. This style is common in catalogs and auctions of military memorabilia.
The Caterpillar Club is an informal association of people who have successfully used a parachute to bail out of a disabled aircraft. After authentication by the parachute maker, applicants receive a membership certificate and a distinctive lapel pin. The nationality of the person whose life was saved by parachute and ownership of the aircraft are not factors in determining qualification for membership; anybody whose life was saved by using a parachute after bailing out of a disabled aircraft is eligible. The requirement that the aircraft is disabled naturally excludes parachuting enthusiasts in the normal course of a recreational jump, or those involved in military training jumps.
The Airborne Systems company of New Jersey continues the tradition of certifying members and awarding pins to this day.[1]
The CaterpillarClub is an informal association of people who have successfully used a parachute to bail out of a disabled aircraft. After authentication...
(1992). He enjoyed memberships in the Royal Aero Club, the Quiet Birdmen, the CaterpillarClub, the OX-5 Club, The Greater Miami Aviation Association as a...
jump, two Dayton newspaper reporters suggested the creation of the CaterpillarClub for successful parachute jumps from disabled aircraft. Beginning with...
1905 The Devil's Chariots, John Glanfield "About Caterpillar". Antique Caterpillar Machinery Owners Club. Archived from the original on 2016-03-22. Retrieved...
first woman to join the CaterpillarClub for having made a safe landing using a parachute in 1925. Fay Gillis Wells "CaterpillarClub Members in Army Air...
membership of the "CaterpillarClub" as a result of this exit from a "disabled aircraft" as can be seen from his wearing of the Club tie in the photo taken...
from a Caterpillar in Indie Film". 5 July 1998. "Advice from a Caterpillar". Entertainment Weekly. "Advice from a Caterpillar". The A.V. Club. 29 March...
The Caterpillar Diesels (also later known as the Peoria Cats or Caterpillars) was an amateur basketball team located in Peoria, Illinois and sponsored...
by the actor James Coburn. In 2018, a brooch, awarded to him by the CaterpillarClub to acknowledge his use of an Irvin parachute to bail out of a stricken...
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Goldfish Club, and so he collects together many of the current and past members diverse stories into this book. CaterpillarClub Ejection Tie Club "The Goldfish...
October 2008 to February 2009 to celebrate the building of the then named Caterpillar Stand fans were invited to vote on a Walk of Legends in partnership with...
chapter outside. Sajad encountered Air Chief Anwar Shamim at the Islamabad Club, where he declined the offer to lead PAF Base Masroor, citing unease after...
The most widely documented use is the Israeli Military militarized Caterpillar D9, for earth moving, clearing terrain obstacles, opening routes, and...
Buchenwald) Club reunions, a club formed by the Allied airmen while detained in Buchenwald. Lamason was also a member of the CaterpillarClub, an informal...
and its first secretary; one of the earliest female members of the CaterpillarClub Cicely Ethel Wilkinson (c.1882–1967), pioneering British pilot Benedetta...
particularly their caterpillars, can be major agricultural pests in many parts of the world. Examples include corn borers and bollworms. The caterpillar of the spongy...
eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed...
London, UK: Robert Hale. — (1956). Into the Silk: True Stories of the CaterpillarClub. London, UK: Robert Hale. — (1985). Tom Rolt and the Cressy years....
New Jersey, a company that continues to be closely involved with the CaterpillarClub. Atherton was drafted in World War II. His US Marine Corps service...
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