xwind 0 #1 April 6, 2009 On 7 March 2009 we celebrated 5 decades of skydiving in South Africa at the Pretoria Skydiving Club. During this event we had the opportunity to meet a living legend, the man that did the first wingsuit jumps in South Africa. Peter Hazelhurst did the first wingsuit jumps in South Africa in 1958. He was 21 at the time and had only 33 normal parachute jumps. The following files are attached: bm001-page1.jpg: Page 1 of Sunday Times newspaper article on his first wingsuit jump bm001-page2.jpg: Page 2 bm001-page3.jpg: Newspaper article with photos of his wingsuit. It is in Dutch I think (perhaps Jarno can translate) SA Skydiving reunion ! 033.jpg: Our wingsuit group with Peter in the front row centre SA Skydiving reunion ! 035.jpg Our wingsuit group with Peter in the center. Thank you Terryl Cliffe for organizing the skydiving reunion.Wingsuit South Africa Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mccordia 73 #2 April 6, 2009 Hey..he's flying an XSAwesome stuff! JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 135 #3 April 6, 2009 did you guys organise hima tandem jump with wingsuit flyby ?scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pierre3636 0 #4 April 6, 2009 no - we did a 8 way with smoke - he is too fragile for a tandem ... would have been awsome tho! ~ time is ~ time was ~ times past ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VectorBoy 0 #5 April 7, 2009 What were his thoughts on the moderm suits? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
