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• Aerodyne’s Internet Tombola makes a US skydiver happy! - by Aerodyne
  Jennifer Panicorp of Covington, Washington (USA) is the happy winner of a free complete Aerodyne parachute system, consisting of an Icon harness-container system, a Smart reserve and a main canopy of her choice.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 1663 Posted: Wed Feb 11 2004)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Dive with ad'oh, not Dubya
  A poll conducted by a British charity has found that more people would rather participate in a tandem skydive with Homer Simpson than with George Bush.
  (Rating: 5.50 Votes: 2 Viewed: 1596 Posted: Tue Dec 30 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Cherry Doyle of Eufaula has fallen. But she did get up. - by Susan Walworth
  In fact, she got up before she fell-way, way up-11,000 feet above ground level to be exact. And it was no accident when the 72-year-old grandmother jumped from a 1957 single engine plane, Saturday, Nov. 29.
  (Rating: 9.00 Votes: 5 Viewed: 1615 Posted: Thu Dec 11 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• DeLand Canopy Coaches Launch Flight-1 Canopy School - by Scott Miller
  Skydivers will soon have a new way to improve their canopy flying skills. Members of the Performance Designs Factory Swoop Team and Skydive DeLand's Freedom of Flight Canopy School have joined together to create a new coaching project called Flight-1.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 1671 Posted: Mon Dec 08 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Spaceland Anomaly - Insomnia Tunnel Camp - by Trent Alkek
  Spaceland Anomaly, this year's silver medallist freefly team, is hosting its second annual "Insomnia Tunnel Camp" this coming January. Together with tunnel champions Juliana and Fabian Raidel and Joao Tambor, Anomaly hopes to again bring freeflyers of all experience levels to the SkyVenture tunnel in Orlando for an intensive 3 night camp.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 1252 Posted: Sat Nov 29 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Skydive murder suspects released on bail
  Two 19-year-old men arrested in connection with the murder of skydiver Stephen Hilder have been released on police bail pending further inquiries. The men, understood to be Adrian Blair and David Mason, were taken into custody by Humberside Police on Wednesday.
  (Rating: 6.50 Votes: 2 Viewed: 2159 Posted: Sat Oct 25 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• New School Flight Camps Blends Training - by Steven Blincoe
  New School Flight camps blend all the major disciplines into to one training session over a four day period. Freefly, Fundamental RW, Tunnel, and Canopy progression camps dedicated to producing a more complete skyjumper.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 1325 Posted: Sat Oct 25 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• 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: 1299 Posted: Sun Oct 05 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• 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: 1155 Posted: Sat Apr 05 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• 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: 2232 Posted: Thu Mar 13 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• 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: 1161 Posted: Sat Feb 22 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• 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: 1340 Posted: Tue Dec 17 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• 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: 1224 Posted: Mon Nov 11 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• 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: 3498 Posted: Tue Oct 22 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Vicar takes a plunge for charity - by BBC
  A daredevil vicar has raised more than £1,000 for his parish by parachuting from 13,000 feet over a Nottinghamshire airfield.
  (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 902 Posted: Tue Sep 24 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• 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: 877 Posted: Tue Sep 17 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• 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: 2286 Posted: Wed Jul 31 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• 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: 844 Posted: Sat Jul 13 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• 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: 1225 Posted: Sat Jun 08 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• 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: 1108 Posted: Sat Apr 20 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• "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: 691 Posted: Thu Mar 07 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• 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: 633 Posted: Sun Mar 03 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• 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: 1069 Posted: Thu Feb 28 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• 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: 1082 Posted: Wed Feb 06 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• 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: 628 Posted: Sat Feb 02 2002)   Rate It   Bookmark It