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Mine was being catapulted off an aircraft carrier. The C-2 was a prop plane, cargo and personnel.
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The wife and I went down New River Gorge in West Virginia in a two person raft,just the two of us,no guide,no other rafters.
 
Never road in a Carolyn as we called them when I was on the JFK CVA67.
As for wild rides hard to say. 160mph plus driving a car or 145pmh on a motorcycle or doing 30 degree rolls on a sub as we pasted under a Hurricane. Or doing 30 degree rolls on the JFK as we went close to a hurricane and the Helicopter ride to the JFK after she pulled out of Spain leaving a number of us behind due to bad weather. That is just a short list of some fun rides I have been on
 
I was scared half to death in that raft the whole time. It was the not knowing what was coming that was so bad. When it was over,I would have gone right back and started over again if I could have.
 
Went down the Rio Grand in a six person raft -- cold and raining -- took a little brandy to call Me nerves -- Roy
 
Loss of power in my airplane....while not wild but scary.....but it doesn't count since I did land on a farm...!
Ben
 
Not the wildest,but the most fun,rowing the 4 speed in my Elky. Low 10's,130 in the 1/4.

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Rode with a buddy in his 68 gran torino speedo registers 120 mph at the 2 o'clock position needle went passed 120 to the six o'clock position.Don't know how fast we were but it felt like we were floating.My rear clamped on the seat pretty tight.Don't ever want to go that fast again.Scott
 
When I used to race motocross. 40-60 motorcycles all racing to be first into the first turn which was maybe 10-15 feet wide at about 40-50 mph.
 
Back in my early 20's, running across the lake at night, too fast in a junky old boat (not mine, I was a passenger).

The spool cable steering came undone, the motor turned full lock and flipped the boat. I fell out of the seat, ended up in the bottom of the boat that landed right side up, half full or water, still trying to run full throttle in circles.

The driver was thrown out, I managed to climb up and shut the engine down. No light, no life jacket, no idea where the driver was, imagining the worst...

I was hollering for him, finally heard him answer back. He was uninjured. We swam the boat back to shore, walked to the truck, came back for the boat the next day.

God was watching over us that night! Alcohol was involved.
 
Alfa Romeo It was a car that should not have been in the U.S. From what I have learned about it since I owned it was it was a car owned by some one in the military and was brought in the U.S. when the person got shipped back to the U.S. Car had 2 2 barrel carbs a 5 speed transmission 4 wheel disk brake and dual over head cams. At 3500RPM in 5th the car would do as per the speedometer 160MPH. Engine red lined at 7000RPM. I lived in Mississippi at the time and was on a Hwy which was straight and flat. Had my girl friend with me at the time and when I hit 140 she looked at the speedometer put her seat belt on and laid the seat flat and told me she would not sit up till I slowed down. I took it up to 160 or so before I slowed down
 
Honda 90 step through going 60 down hill on Lake Mary road just south of Flagstaff. The front tire blew. Oncoming traffic was a capacity laded log truck He saw what happened and edged the side of the road to give me all the space he could. I used it all getting slowed and stopped. Pieces of tire and tube were spread for 1/2 mile. Jim
 
You must have been in the Navy also. In 64 I was attached to a sea plane patrol squadron flying patrols off the coast of Vietnam looking for the bad guys. We had 12 P5M sea planes. The air was hot and thin. Jato bottles were attached to the plane for more lift on take off. The pilot got the plane up to speed on the water, then lit the jato bottles. The noise, and the plane gaining more speed as it got airborne. Something I will always remember. What an adventure. right off the farm to 4 years In the Navy. Sure beat hoeing beans all day. Stan
 
Standing on top of the previous jumpers chute, about 800 ft off the ground...having 3-4 seconds to decide which way to walk off of it, before mine collapses. (Made it).
 
Flying out of Thailand in 1970 on the way home. Flew over the Plain-O-Jars in Laos while a battle was executing below. Plane climbed faster and the C-130 did not have regular seats like an airliner has. They had bleacher type bench seats along the side of the plane. Got jolted a bit. The base Ubon RTAFB where I was stationed was 40 miles from the Laos border.
 
120 on an H2 Kawasaki 750 3 cylinder 2 stroke. Given nickname (Widowmaker)
Also later same bike. It had been missing. Too many slow easy miles on town, fouled plug. Cleaned plugs and took it out to blow the carbon out of it. I got it up to about 80 and got speed wobble on front tire. I fought the wobble down to about 60 and it went out from under me. I went sliding face first following the bike as it was shooting sparks from the concrete. I slid to a stop, bleeding profusely. Someone in a 64 Chevy stopped and helped me up and gave me a towel to cover my face and rushed me to the emergency room. 3 hours and 500 stitches later my nose was reattached, my lip and a cut above and under one eye was stitched.
Bike had a friction knob to clamp and keep the front from wobbling. After a while it had a tendency to loosen and I didn't know it. June of 1975.
 
In all the years I rode motorcycle I have had a tire blow out on me. I did remember riding up a hill that was covered with ice and making the mistake of shifting gears and end up at the bottom of the hill under the front bumper of the car that had stopped to wait for me to get to the top. I was 14 at the time riding a Honda 50 and yes I was legal to be riding it
 
I did a flight like that in a C130, Only I was heading west from Moffett Field Ca to Iwakuni Japan. All we had was web strap seats along each side. We did make a couple fuel stops. Stan
 
logging on a ridge with JD350 dozer. I had 5 logs pulled out & was shoving them over a 30 ft. sheer cliff by putting the blade against the end of the tree length logs & pushing them until they fell off the cliff. One log got under the blade & dozer & when the logs started falling over the cliff, the one log lifted the dozer off the ground & logs, dozer & me started a death slide. Luckily the dozer tipped sideways & the tracks grabbed the ground & the log slid out from under the dozer & me. I sat there awhile pondering on the frailties of life.
 
Yup, BTDT.

Wilder for me was in inter-ship transfer via helicopter. Don't remember the model, bigger than a LAMPS bird...maybe a CH53? Anyway, too big to land on the CG I was being transferred to, so I got to ride the horse collar from the bird to the fantail.

Biggest problem was trying to tuck my ankles behind my ears as the hook man was having trouble snagging the winch cable. You do NOT want to touch the deck before the hook man grounds the cable.

Static electricity from the blades ya know...
 
(quoted from post at 19:31:16 09/21/18) Alfa Romeo It was a car that should not have been in the U.S. From what I have learned about it since I owned it was it was a car owned by some one in the military and was brought in the U.S. when the person got shipped back to the U.S. Car had 2 2 barrel carbs a 5 speed transmission 4 wheel disk brake and dual over head cams. At 3500RPM in 5th the car would do as per the speedometer 160MPH. Engine red lined at 7000RPM. I lived in Mississippi at the time and was on a Hwy which was straight and flat. Had my girl friend with me at the time and when I hit 140 she looked at the speedometer put her seat belt on and laid the seat flat and told me she would not sit up till I slowed down. I took it up to 160 or so before I slowed down
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Old, you should get ahold of Heritage Insurance and get them straightened out. Those idiots give the high performance Alpha Romeo of that vintage credit for only 118 MPH top speed.
 
Wildest ride was riding a ten speed bike down a hill at 65 mph and no helmet or pads. Fastest ride was in a nascar. It was chipped to top out at 150, on the track it felt like 75 or 80 on the freeway. I didn't want to spend another $400 for them to rechip it to go 180 mph.
 

My personal wildest ride was when I went off the interstate while doing 55 on black ice in 2006. I did a barrel roll, and a somersault and landed on the side. I went over the end of the guard rail down into a ravine and my drop was cushioned by tree tops. Traffic was heavy and I was just staying in line. The following summer they lengthened the guard rail.
 
When I was 22 years old I went white water rafting with some friends. I was an idiot for doing it being that I can?t swim.
 
Yes, very bad scenario, one of our guys broke both ankles landing on another canopy. He was too close to the ground and didn?t have enough time to run off the canopy. Fell about 30 ft.
 
Snowmobile going about 120 across a lake at night, one of the others out in front hit a bump and rolled it. The pieces were flying all over the place when it was all done we had a guy with a broken hand and a snowmobile with no seat, hood, not all the motor parts, and not running. We loaded up what we could and took off came back and got the sled with a trailer took our buddy to the doctor.

It is a wonderful thing to think that most of my friends made it through our 20s. My grandmother said some one of us should have gotten killed (and she only ever got the g-rated stories). We did lose one buddy but cancer got him at 19 had nothing to do with being young and dumb.
 
Taking flying lessons in a Piper PA-28 coming in for a landing about 80mph airspeed, about 200 feet over the ground, hit a wind shear. Straight down like a brick. Firewalled the throttle, put the nose down a bit, and leveled out 10 feet over the runway. I thought I was a goner for a few scary seconds. My instructor looked at me and asked me how I liked the elevator ride.
 
Bei g a Eoropean car, the speedometer was likely calibrated in kilometers per
hour....which works out to around 100 mph...
Ben
 
Crossed the Katchemak Bay from Homer AK to Sadie Cove for a camping trip, seven of us in a 20 foot pleasure boat, beautiful ride. Couple of days later, attempting to return, the swells were 15-20 feet, meaning we could not see anything but water for half of the ride. Then we snagged a line from a broken crab pot with our prop. Not the time to be powerless. When we pulled in, Coast Guard was quite concerned why we thought we should be out there in seas like that!
 
I was on the Saratoga CVA60. Chasing the ship on the way to nam 1972. Making the trap. The Chief told us if we crash the ship will not stop. To pick up any bodies. I made five traps and four take offs. Scared every time.
 
You probably Know how lucky you are to be able to live to tell that . my neighbor told us kids about that when he jumped out for D -Day . not a good thing and worse in pitch black darkness. And its even worse if 2 sway into one another ,you both might be goners ,.
 
Back when I was on the JFK there was a catapult problem one time and an F-14 did a nose dive right off the front of the ship. We had to stick around for a couple of days so a recovery ship could get there to try to find it. Of course it got run over by the JFK right after it did that nose dive. Never did here if they found it or not or if they found the pilot
 
. Just unloaded 1-1-2 hours ago from a PT-6 turbine conversion Otter Floatplane . Took off in a crosswind and flew back to base in a snowstorm. While surrounded with guns, saws, ropes coolers, hunting gear, electrical equipment, boat motor, gas cans etc.
 
I was maybe 4 years old, and dad took me to his uncle's house and we tried out his 3wheeler. Dad was sitting behind me telling me how to drive it and he said ok press with your thumb to make it go and I did (pressed it all the way in, and fast) and we went over backwards. Nobody got hurt and we got back on and rode. He must've thought I was doing good, so dad got off and told me to go drive around by myself. I was going along and then got to the field and it was bumpy, which made me grip tighter, which made it go faster, which made it more bumpy, which made me grip tighter, which made it go faster... going full out, right toward a barbed wire fence, dad running after me screaming. I cleared my head and thought about how to avoid the fence and knew I had to loosen my grip and thumb, and did without falling off, and narrowly avoided a disaster. Dad said "don't tell mom".
Or else, I was doing one of my skydive from 10,000 feet and I was crooked and started a literal death spin. I saw the world go round and round, faster and faster, and knew this wasn't good. I couldn't get out if it and just went limp. Now I am on by back, belly up. I really started to panic then, and was desperately reaching for something to hold on to, but of course nothing was there. The jump master was able to stick close to me through this, and I looked at her and she made the motion to arch. So I went limp again and did the hardest arch I could do. So now I'm in the shape of a bridge (belly up), and ever so slowly, I lift up and over myself into the correct belly down position and now I feel ok. Jump master signals for me to pull (at a very high altitude) and so I did even though I was then ready to work and didn't want to pull yet. So I had a long, long ride down under the chute and landed perfectly. That jump master was almost crying. She thought I was going to die and she said she has never seen anyone spin that fast. She went into a room by herself and I got ready and went up again.
 
Nothing that severe riding the instructor Navigator seat in a KC 135 out of Grissom AFB in Northern Indiana, heavy crosswind so as soon as he rotated the aircraft the pilot hung a hard left, it looked like we were going to run off the runway, but as soon as the aircraft started flying the nose moved back to the center of the runway and we climbed out flying right down the middle of the runway. The second wildest ride was riding a C141 into Rhine Main Air Force Base in Germany, we came in hot with no flaps, we had to hang out in no man's land at the end of the runway until brake parts stopped glowing bright red.
 
Way back in my twenties I went on a whitewater raft trip with a group down the Colorado River. This was a guided tour for a bunch of inexperienced visitors to the area. We had a guide in the back of the raft, and he would holler out orders so we knew when to row and when not to. Looking back, it was kind of like a slave ship from old Roman times, and we were the slaves.
Row harder! Harder!
Row right!
Now left!
Harder!
We hit some pretty good whitewater, and the guide would point out big features in the river when he wasn’t yelling at us. One such feature he called Dinosaur Hole. It was a roiling hydraulic in the middle of the river and spit out water high in the air where it came bursting to the surface. It was to be avoided.

We were many groups going down the river, and one outfit had a different approach. In the middle of the raft sat a very muscular fellow, an oar in each hand. The passengers were just along for the ride—had no say in how the raft made its way down the river. This other raft with the muscular fellow drew my interest as I saw he was headed straight for Dinosaur Hole. Hmm…he must have a plan, I thought. Probably not his first time. As the raft entered the violent water, it was no longer controllable. The muscular fellow stopped rowing, since there was no water for his oars to dip into. The raft stood straight up on its nose, tossing every last passenger into the Colorado. They were flung out like rag dolls. As far as I know, no one was seriously hurt, and there were so many other groups in that section that the other rafts picked the passengers out of the water as they came down the river. Our ride was exciting, but not like theirs.

As someone else posted, I also did a section of the New River in West Virginia, and that was a lot of fun. We were on a guided tour, and the guide would motion us to stop at the river’s edge to let us know what was coming, and how to deal with it. Then we’d do the best we could, but would mostly go spinning crazily down the river and try to keep the raft from hitting the really big rocks.

BTW—I think GotMyFarm wins this round LOL
 
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