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- Orlando Skyventure upgrades to bigger motors - by Brannan Johnson
The SkyVenture wind tunnel in Orlando, Florida, has just finished adding bigger more efficient motors and a host of other improvements that make the world's best vertical wind tunnel even better.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 1180 Posted: Sun Oct 05 2003)
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- Saving lives with your computer - by Cajones
Dropzone.com users have formed a team to help with a world-wide effort to understand proteins and their role in certain diseases. It is called "Folding@Home" and this effort is already producing results.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 1051 Posted: Sat Apr 05 2003)
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- Para-Gear Catalog Photo Submissions - by Curt Bachman
Para-Gear is interested in photographic submissions that you may have for the 2003-2004 Para-Gear Catalog #68. We have taken the time to briefly describe the format and certain criteria that we look for, in order to help you to see if you have something worth submitting.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 1853 Posted: Thu Mar 13 2003)
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- Big Air Sportz - New Structure and Pricing - by Andy Frey
Tampa, FL -- Big Air Sportz, Inc., makers of high performance airlocked sport parachutes, has slashed retail prices on its Samurai and Lotus models of airlocked canopies.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 1023 Posted: Sat Feb 22 2003)
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- Big Air Sportz offers discount for rating holders - by Eric Boerger
Big Air Sportz is proud to announce that their instructor discounts are back for a limited time. Big Air Sportz, Inc. is offering significant discounts on all canopies sold directly to current rated coaches and AFF, static line and tandem instructors.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 1186 Posted: Tue Dec 17 2002)
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- Freefly Training Center Freefly Thursdays - by Dave Brown
The Freefly Training Center (located at Skydive Sebastian, Florida) is incorporating a new program to benefit the freeflyers planning to go to the SkyVenture wind tunnel in Orlando to freefly.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 1084 Posted: Mon Nov 11 2002)
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- What did you do last summer? - by Erin Golden
Tis the season.... Summer for skydivers is the time that we let loose, enjoy the longer days, jump as much as possible, go to boogies, see old friends and meet new people. For The Freefly Training Center (FTC), this past summer was no exception.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 2389 Posted: Tue Oct 22 2002)
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- Thief lands stolen plane on South African highway
A South African thief who stole a plane for a joyride had to land on a motorway when it ran out of fuel. He made the emergency landing on the N4 highway near Bronkhorstspruit, about 30 miles from Pretoria.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 755 Posted: Tue Sep 17 2002)
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- New Wind Tunnel in Lake Elsinore
Marissa Partners, LLC and Aero Systems Engineering today announced their plan to open the world's most advanced design indoor skydiving facility. Located in scenic Lake Elsinore, the state-of-the-art complex will be the widest diameter commercial facility of its kind at 14 ft. and capable of producing wind speeds in excess of 150 mph.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 2091 Posted: Wed Jul 31 2002)
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- USPA Board of Directors Meeting Summary - by Mike Turoff
There was a huge amount of review work that went into the documentation changes to the Skydiver’s Information Manual and the new Instructional Rating Manual.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 703 Posted: Sat Jul 13 2002)
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- Balloon Mass Skydive World Record - by David Fish
Sixteen skydivers jumped into the world record books on Friday 31st May 2002 when they all skydived from one of the UK's largest hot air balloons, 10,500ft above Peterborough Parachute centre nr Sibson.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 1074 Posted: Sat Jun 08 2002)
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- First Dock - Two Jumpers Make History - by Jari Kuosma
The first controlled dock between a canopy pilot and a skydiver in freefall is a fact! In the skies of DeLand, Florida, around four o'clock in the afternoon on April 17th, Jari Kuosma, wearing a Skyflyer wingsuit, did a controlled dock on the ankle of Vladi Pesa who was flying his Performance Designs Velocity 84.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 939 Posted: Sat Apr 20 2002)
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- "Team Funnel" Honors Fallen Friends by Sharing the Dream - by Sarah Lawrence
For most skydivers, the reality of human flight is a dream come true. This May, a group of skydivers in Illinois will seek to make someone else's dream come true while remembering a few friends who have died living theirs.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 561 Posted: Thu Mar 07 2002)
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- Monkey around with Monkey Claw - by Adam Rosen
The Monkey Claw Freefly Team and Freefly School had a busy 2001 season and it preparing for an even busier 2002 season. The Monkey Claw Freefly Team is based at Skydive Cross Keys, in Williamstown, New Jersey. The Team consists of Glen "Stuey" Newman, Tim Miller, Adam Rosen, Heath Richardson and Bert Navarette.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 520 Posted: Sun Mar 03 2002)
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- Go Fast energy drink bolts out of gate - by Kelly Pate
Troy Widgery, founder of Go Fast, stands atop the company Range Rover in front of their building at 1935 W. 12th Ave. in Denver. Maybe that's why Denver native Troy Widgery, a skydiver, has poured all his energy and money into Go Fast energy drink.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 891 Posted: Thu Feb 28 2002)
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- Breast by far
Cup a load of this, girls! Forget the Wonderbra, here comes the no-blunder bra. Gorgeous TV presenter Gabrielle Richens shows off her curves in a futuristic creation which promises to keep a firm grip on ample bosoms at very high speeds.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 927 Posted: Wed Feb 06 2002)
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- Woman, 90, skydives to prove age is just a number - by James Minton
WILSON -- Marni Evans literally "dropped in" for her 90th birthday party Saturday afternoon, jumping from an airplane cruising over her farm at 12,000 feet. She said she wanted to show her friends that age is just a state of mind, even when you're nearing the century mark.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 512 Posted: Sat Feb 02 2002)
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- Challenging jump for 25 BASE jumpers
ALOR STAR: Braving strong winds and limited landing space, 25 skydivers from six countries jumped off the Alor Star Tower here yesterday. They leapt off the tower’s open deck at 105m and were on the ground within 18 seconds.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 640 Posted: Thu Jan 31 2002)
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- Submissions for Logbook Entry Book - by A.T. Clinger
Laurie Steel and co-author A.T. Clinger are working on a skydiving book and are looking for support from the skydiving community. We are looking to represent the sport in a way that has yet to be explored, and give both other skydivers as well as non-jumpers a view of our world.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 543 Posted: Mon Jan 21 2002)
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- Skydiver to paddle for blood donors
A former Royal Air Force skydiver who lost a leg after he crash-landed into Aston Villa football ground will kayak around the UK to promote blood donation. Television viewers and football fans watched in horror as Nigel Rogoff plunged into the roof of a spectator stand at Villa Park during a premier league football match in December 1998.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 612 Posted: Mon Nov 26 2001)
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- Jumping rounds, for the love of it! - by Roy Mobsby
The ageing Dakota transport lurched and bumped far above the Normandy beach. The Paratroopers inside wished they were already over the Drop Zone, it was hot inside and even with the door open not enough air was circulating. At least it had not been a long flight.
(Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1 Viewed: 448 Posted: Sun Nov 25 2001)
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- Skydivers win $600,000 for crash
A SKYDIVING school has been ordered to pay two of its students more than $600,000 in damages after they collided during a jump. Sydney Skydivers Pty Ltd was found to have breached its duty of care and ordered to pay damages for injuries and loss of work suffered by the men.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 562 Posted: Thu Oct 18 2001)
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- 'Invastion' of Army recruiters unnerves jittery Austinites - by Claire Osborn
Hundreds of people called 911 Tuesday after seeing six parachutists who were trailing plumes of red smoke land at Austin High School. "People thought we were being invaded," said Ed Harris Jr., director of emergency communications for the Austin Police Department.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 547 Posted: Wed Oct 17 2001)
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- Building Escape Parachutes - Good or Bad Idea?
Precision Aerodynamics is one of at least two manufacturers who have been advertising emergency escape chutes for high-rise buildings. Although the concept of using parachutes as a last ditched effort to escape from a building isn't new there has been new interest in the wake of the 11 September terrorist attacks in New York.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 556 Posted: Mon Oct 15 2001)
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