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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: 561 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: 537 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: 469 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: 867 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: 533 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: 641 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: 789 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: 635 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: 625 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: 491 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: 906 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: 857 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: 541 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: 628 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: 528 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: 565 Posted: Wed Apr 25 2001)
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- There are no tall buildings in Kentucky - by Joe Williams
A 33-year-old Kentucky man, lured to Manhattan by its skyscrapers, parachuted from a downtown office building last night and landed on the sixth-floor rooftop of an adjacent building, police said.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 544 Posted: Sat Apr 14 2001)
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- Passenger's aerial exit was no joke - by Sean O'Neill
AIR traffic controllers thought the pilot who asked permission "to come overhead at 1,500 feet and throw one of our passengers out" was joking. They watched, amused, as "a bundle" fell out and disappeared near hangars at Coventry airport.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 602 Posted: Wed Apr 11 2001)
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- A Skydiver takes the Plunge into Marriage - by Brad Koch
At age 24, after four years with the same fantastic person, I knew it was time to pop the big question to my wonderful girlfriend, Marie. But I knew that an extraordinary person like her deserved nothing but an extraordinary marriage proposal.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 549 Posted: Sat Apr 07 2001)
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- Love is in the air - by Gary Moskowitz
TUJUNGA -- As they jumped from a plane at 1,300 feet above Perris Valley Skydiving Center and fell at speeds of up to 120 mph, a husband and wife kissed while their high-flying wedding party formed a heart-shaped formation around them in celebration of 25 years of marriage.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 543 Posted: Sat Apr 07 2001)
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- Skydiver Sues Over Jump that Went Wrong - by Ellen Connolly
Joel Griffin, who said she felt as though her body had exploded, after the accident, and leaving court yesterday. Joel Griffin thought she was dying. Having crashed to the ground from a height of 3,000 metres, she had no feeling in her legs and was in excruciating pain.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0 Viewed: 619 Posted: Mon Apr 02 2001)
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- BASE Jumper Cleared by Court - by John C. Ensslin
Westminster man who smashed window trying to parachute off hotel has landed an acquittal. Harry Caylor found a thrill to match jumping off downtown buildings -- in a first-floor courtroom of Denver District Court on Wednesday.
(Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1 Viewed: 539 Posted: Sun Mar 25 2001)
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