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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: 767 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: 689 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: 751 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: 580 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: 710 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: 670 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: 716 Posted: Mon Oct 15 2001)
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- Park service denies claim by jumper - by Steve Keenan
Like approximately 300 fellow BASE jumpers and more than 200 rappellers, 73-year-old Jim Guyer has been grounded from Bridge Day 2001. And he's fighting mad about it.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 702 Posted: Mon Oct 08 2001)
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- Skydivers sue over mid-air crash
TWO student skydivers who plunged to the ground after a mid-air collision during a training jump are suing the company that was teaching them how to parachute. Christopher Charles Morton, 33, was in hospital for four days and off work for six weeks after the accident, which also involved Michael Richard Warren, 26, at Picton, south of Sydney, on December 14, 1997.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 690 Posted: Mon Sep 17 2001)
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- Flirting with danger, skirting the law - by Ken Warren
Anthony White of Ottawa is a base-jumper who leaps from tall buildings at night to avoid the law. Next month, he'll be in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur to compete in an event that begins on the roofs of the world's tallest buildings, the twin 1,483-foot Petronas Towers, and hopefully ends safely on the streets below with the aid of a parachute.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 640 Posted: Tue Jul 31 2001)
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- Buttman 'fly' says law society
Grahamstown, South Africa - Candidate attorney and naked skydiver James "Buttman" Reilly, 36, was officially cleared of any impropriety by the Cape Law Society on Tuesday.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 1023 Posted: Tue Jul 24 2001)
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- Skydiving wish inspires jack-of-all-jobs aircraft - by Kevin Taylor
The first year's production of a new plane built by Hamilton-based Pacific Aerospace is sold out. The maker of military training and topdressing planes last night unveiled the PAC 750XL at a gathering which included Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 669 Posted: Sun Jul 22 2001)
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- Skydivers Closer to Free Flight on a Wing and a Flair
MARINA, Calif. -- There he was, high above Monterey Bay, a yellow speck rocketing across the gauzy sky. Birdman was tracing a line due east, maybe 100 mph, following the braided shoals of the Salinas River. The ground was approaching at about 60 mph.
(Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1 Viewed: 809 Posted: Sat Jul 21 2001)
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- Buttman flies again - by Jonathan Riordan
Grahamstown, South Africa - There was mirth and amazement when a naked skydiver landed on the Grahamstown army's parade at 8am yesterday morning. Unfazed, the first words Port Elizabeth candidate attorney James Reilly, 36, shouted to the 100-odd soldiers were: "Reporting for action, Sir!".
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 920 Posted: Thu Jul 12 2001)
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- Parachute team drop clanger at No 10 - by Richard Holliday
Tony Blair was briefing ministers in the garden of No 10 when they were interrupted by an object dropping out of the skies. It was a 22ft red and yellow paper streamer attached to a large cardboard tube - dropped by Army skydivers to test the wind speed before their jump.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 775 Posted: Fri Jul 06 2001)
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- Beatles fall from the sky? - by Beth Sneller
It isn't every day you see John Lennon drop out of the sky. Or Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, for that matter. Well, the skydivers at Lisle Eyes to the Skies Balloonfest Sunday weren't actually the four mopheads from Liverpool themselves, but they looked an awful lot like them.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 739 Posted: Mon Jul 02 2001)
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- Solo Parachutist Arrested After Stunt at NATO HQ
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A parachutist performed a solo aerial lap over NATO headquarters Wednesday to protest against United States policy on missile defense before landing in a nearby field, where he was arrested.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 616 Posted: Thu Jun 14 2001)
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- Space Parachuting: Skydiving from the Edge - by Leonard David - Space.com
WASHINGTON -- Everybody knows it was Neil Armstrong that took that historic one small step. But now several parachutists are aiming to take giant leaps that could lead to a new form of extreme sport - spacediving.
(Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1 Viewed: 1081 Posted: Fri Jun 08 2001)
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- Popularity of skydiving soaring in Chicago area - by Steve Young
When Todd Davis started skydiving, he had to scrape together every penny he could for the sport. "Once I did my first jump, I knew this is what I wanted to do, but I didn't know how I was going to do it," said Davis, 28, who started jumping 10 years ago.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 1062 Posted: Thu May 31 2001)
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- Korean Special Forces Member Sets Skydiving Record - by Yoo Yong-won
Sung Chang-woo, a member of the Republic of Korea Army Special Forces (KASF), has the highest record for the number of skydiving parachute jumps in Korea making some 5,000. The record was achieved in the "25th Skydiving and Parachute Contest," organized by KASF, on Saturday.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 657 Posted: Sun May 06 2001)
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- Three Jump Plane-to-Plane - by Brandon Wren
Joe Jennings is back at it again! Only this time, the stunt is bigger and better than anything like it before. The group shot this stunt at Skydive Arizona, in Eloy, for a television show called "That's Incredible"-a remake of the 70's show that inspired many of our current skydivers and stunt people today-which should air in late spring.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 748 Posted: Sun May 06 2001)
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- Skydiver drops lead weights - by Eleanor Black
Bystanders at Rotorua Airport were sprayed with lead shot after a pair of 2.5kg skydiver's weights plummeted 762m, hitting the ground with such force that witness thought they were exploding bombs.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 657 Posted: Tue May 01 2001)
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- Forced retiree makes his point - 60 times
PALATKA — To celebrate his 60th birthday and his forced retirement as an airline pilot, Larry Elmore jumped out of an airplane 60 times in one day. He was forced to retire from Trans World Airlines at age 60 because of Federal Aviation Administration rules on commercial pilots.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 690 Posted: Wed Apr 25 2001)
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