Stories of Paraná - Jumping Mad Neco

Stories of Paraná - Jumping Mad Neco

Jumping Mad Neco
Kit Abdala

When I got Francisco Beltran, in mid-1959, the great drama of beltronenses was the trip to Curitiba.
When the weather was good took up two days of travel.
When it rained, the travel time was totally unpredictable. The solution would be to buy a plane.
We went to the airport at that time was a simple way to farm.
I contacted the then Mayor Angelo Comilotti and got a grader.
Broaden and balizamos the track and then built the first hangar southwestern Paraná which is still considered the best in the region.
For the inauguration of the new runway and new hangar party decided to make the first aerial Francisco Beltran.
I bought a Cessna 195, seats six, and went to São Paulo in search of three paratroopers.
We got them and returned to Beltran two days before the long-awaited party. The majority of the population of Francisco Beltran and southwestern Paraná had never seen a paratrooper closely.
We started advertising on Radio hive would come the famous "Mad Neco" whose greatest feat was to shoot parachute at 1000 meters and
just open the same 100 meters from the ground.
Nobody believed what was advertised.
We get up and go out flight distributing flyers to all the villages of the Southwest.
It was a real success.
People came from all over to attend and meet the famous jumper "Neco Mad". Two paratroopers jumped prior to the delight of the audience present. Neco Mad, all in white, was greeting the crowd present.
All were delighted with the friendliness of NECO.
It's time the terrible leap. The plane to head to the track with the door open on the right side, showed Neco already parachute waving his hand, especially for the beautiful and youthful female representatives, whom he had conquered.
A powerful speaker was installed on the airfield, where through a microphone I radiated all the movements for greater understanding of the present.
In the most emotional moment of the party, announced the leap from "Neco".
- Personal attention, pay close attention to the NECO will perform the most spectacular jump in the world! "
The entire population heard the mighty aircraft to reduce its power and all followed the leap from NECO.
And Neco came whirling and nothing to open the parachute and I on the microphone:
- "Do not be alarmed, the parachute will open only 100 meters."
And the body came whirling, whirling, to plop the paddock nearby airport.
It was a God in help!
Dr. Arizone hit his gleaming bald head and said, "these parties never go wrong."
An attorney present wept like a child
- "Was my friend, how can die like ..."
The people left in the race.
Jumped the fence and brought the body of a doll, dressed all in white, that I had put at dawn inside the plane, which was in the hangar, without anyone noticing.
The Zambom, old gringo war, was the first to come close to the doll.
With that accent "Piedmontese" of Caxias do Sul, he said: - "Oia here Quito when I jumped the fence, tore his shirt to go to mass on Sundays, when I got there and saw it was a doll made me want to kill the doll ... " The laughter was general and undoubtedly this passage was the story of Beltran.
Kit Abdala, medical Francisco Beltran


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.