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Parachuting Preceded Flight The history of aviation has extended over more than two thousand years from the earliest attempts in BASE Parasol jumps, kites, or gliders to powered heavier-than-air, supersonic, and hypersonic flight. The first form of man-made flying objects were either BASE type jumps or kites from around 200 BC in China. Then a general flew a kite over enemy territory to calculate the length of tunnel required to enter the region (Using trigonometry?). Early flier, Yuan Huangtou, a Chinese prince, survived by tying himself to the kite. According to Joseph Needham, hot-air balloons in China were known from the 3rd century BC. A couple of thousands of years later, the French too flew. Pat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189,

Fertilizing " a Darwin family tree with no leaves." [aka piss into the wind] Obstinate stubbornness serves the world alike by terminating such livestock that bounce before they breed. Tidy. Premature funerals happen aplenty. We are. Darwinism selection Is. Suggestion: a recipe to deselect your self soon from propagating that sad cycle. Rx: eschew (avoid) hanging stuff to your swoop attire that can/could/will snag a 'shroud line' when Murphy attends your frolic. Why do you think they are called Shroud Lines Suspension Lines He Do? You gone. Since forever, having snag-points on your deploying trash that can double-total kill your ass is very cool, albeit deadly. Santa Costumes, birthday cakes, and double-totals suck. Say" Is a Go-Pro a likely snag? Yep. Fuckin'A' . Verify. .... Me? Today, I'd ask Bryan Burke. Yesterday, I'd ask Jim Wallace. Every day, I'd ask an aerial photographer that's made the cut. Ask. VISION: a snag-unlikely Go-Pro mount to save you momma's baby. Huh? Pat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189,

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Like blue sky? Learn to LOVE flight. Read Richard Bach. Enact your sky dreams. Fly them. Become them. Now. Pat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189,

Fossil relics smile remembering the seldom 1950's morphing into our wealth of body flight arts, our manifest skill, the overarching joy that keeps us Real. Flight. Flight for the joy of Flying. Body flight. Pat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189,

Very excellent event: Tunnel Backfly lesson Been backflying since 1976. got vertical in 1993. ...an .early Freefly coach, used my backfly a lot. (I fall FAST). .... whatever. ... Today's flight: I dream. Today in 5 minutes Kurt showed me kewl back-fly skill-moves; lit my fire like it was gasoline waiting. Whoboy. Lordy, I love flying xo Pat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189,

Well said. Cogent reality. Nice separation of two discrete realities. Post jumping (Polio) i fly fine, mostly. TODAY 10 minutes.... tunnel rat, ; Kurt 'learned' me back fly in ways superior to my airplane-windbourne FF which carries the mandate of backfly to catch new fish. Just now; I want MORE ! OTBTW i'm a flyer and fossil coach

Well Shit Howdy. Folks here went and pulled my head out of my ass for me. Smiles, giggles, reflection in mirrors illuminates depths i'd avoid. Reality check. THANK all y'all fr the images. Revealing + welcome here & now anyhow. XO, OX all. Share living. Save life. Fertile soil. Plant seeds. Expect astounding results. :-) Pat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189,

YES! Hail! Toast! Celebrate knowledge of the Art of Survival Versus the Religion of Safety. ..... Ain't nothing 'correct' about a bounce. Live Pat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189,

Right ON! Welcome to my world. Sometimes just strobe images of reality flashing back at being Dissed previous. I can't paint images with words. I flounder and flail. Pat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189,

... I am a fellow fool trying to laugh .... ep. the post was gibberish babble rap. Me letting excess mind gas escape Brain fart Pat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189,

Golly. You held up a mirror foreign to me. Translated in words i speak, i relish such dumbfounded. Air bird, I sing. Your words reflect what I write to accrue: the History of the Fine Traditions of me and you. Sky people we are the everything that will be when we learn to see. Admire your foresight XO Pat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189,

WOW! Very. Having a fellow traveler treck with and lead makes my heart big. You point out that knowledge of anything makes everything real soon. You help explode our mind. 4th of July air show. Your kind words help fill a hole in me. I thank thee Pat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189,

Golly, First i was impressed by the bredth and depth of the new Skydiving-Encyclopedia i was impressed that ISIS hacked us, then . . . Lately im awed by my Skydiving Research and only drafted. Neat stuff. Severral are heretofore unrefealed or were incorrectl. Kewl. Hey, Dumbfounded that i am CeNSORED. (Already been outcast.) Hoping to be able to tunnel fly. Astounded by the Million-hits in 2016. Enchanted about tomorrows. Ours. Pat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189,

Addendum to my (July) post to reflect the revised committee structure exactly as per the below which is the latest (Sept) list of committee members and advisors. Collection & Curatorial Committee Sept, 2016 Chair: Sandy Reid Mike Horan Pat Works – Interim Curator Advisors: Michael Kearns Kim Knor Mary Todd Cheryl Whitford Jan Works

1996 Dallas Freefly Competition, 2ND American Championships Written by: Dead Magic John H Schuman, DALLAS FREEFLY COMPETITION, AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPS OF FREEFLIGHT OCT. 19, 1996 SKYDIVE DALLAS Whitewright , TX JHS (dead Magic John Schuman) < http://www.koyn.com/JohnSchuman/pages/nac96.htm >

Hello Troy! Welcome news x2. You live AND do DBA while appearing reasonable and sky jumping. Kewl. YES. The Skydiving Museum (eMuseum) must move from flat-fille .xlsx to RDMS prior to reality happening. I am looking for yiuyr help on this project - it is like good fun! plus important to the sport. Sport parachuting needs your mind. Glad you still swoop the earth. .... sendig you a dz.com message too. Viva la Revolution Freefly! !VIVA! Delighted Mate! Pat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189,

Hey Manley, I stuck to rounds for 1,500 + jumps.... Now, working on a history book. When did the Strato Star come out? Wasn't it the 1st "practical" Square? - - I remember dead Billy Revis et al making no-slider jumps with attendant pain and unconsciousness... Billy said that after 8-seconds the openings REALLY HURT and might knock him out. (Srtato Cloud, pre-slider) - - When did the slider happen? I remember a nerd-type jumper... Elif?? Manley - MB - I never owned a PC (made 1 jump on a borrowed) - went to straight from a rag to a StratoStar - borrowed $600 from NFCU & MB- The Strato Star was "rings and strings" - I later changed to a slider in the summer of 76 (I had to visit Strong Ent. in Quincy, Mass. to set the #8 grommets)

The Skydiving Museum, Curatorial and Collections' eMuseum July Status Report • The SMHoF WIKI Encyclopedia is a World top-100-site in size. At our 150 GB of Topic WIKI Entries, the SMHoF WIKI is in the top 99% of all similar sites. • WIKI going viral: Jumping from 15,000 Hits per month to 100,000 + hits per month over 1.4 years. We expect to reach over one-million WIKI hits by year-end. • On-Line Issues of SKYDIVING MAGAZINE -- (Unbudgeted item). When loaded, every issue published from June 1979 to January 2009 (330 issues) will be online in the WIKI.” 3. Sue Clifton is donating her time to help OCR-scan the 97 missing Issues of SKYDIVING MAGAZINE. Mary, Swovelin’s and Pat have OCR Scanned the rest. 4. Editorial Oversight -- Jan’s Editorial Oversight/Review is scrubbing the Topics for accuracy and correctness. Collections and Curatorial Committee Roster • Pat Works, Curator • Mary Todd, Webmaster, Programming, Analysis and Operations/Maintenance • Jan Works, Editorial Oversight, Reality Checker • Cheryl Whitford, Advisor • Kim Knor, Advisor, POSP Lead • Brian Giboney, Author, Freelance Contributor, Parachutist Magazine • Mike Horan, Author, Contributor • Robin Heid, Author, Freelance Contributor, Skydiving Magazine http://www.skydiving-encyclopedia.com/ Pat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189,

Are you a skydiver, a DBA, an Oracle Master who can normalize our Skydiving Museum's artifact database? DBA-Help! your skill is Needed to help normalize Skydiving Museum Artifact Database (relational schema) Database normalization, is the process of organizing the columns (attributes) and tables (relations) of a relational database to reduce data redundancy and improve data integrity. Boyce–Codd normal form BCNF database normalization on a flat CSV table (.xlsx). will allow easier ports to relational database (SQL) After we port the now-flat tables to a new relational schema in BCNF then redundancy based on functional dependency is removed. (A relational schema R is in Boyce–Codd normal form if and only if for every one of its dependencies X --> Y, at least one of the two following conditions hold: Where X --> Y is a trivial functional dependency (Y --> X) OR: - X is a super key for schema R - - - - - + Comments + ideas + help are Welcome. Thanx - -30 - -- Pat, Curator, Skydiving Museum and Hall of Fame eMuseum Pat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189,

PROJECT OVERVIEW, Skydiving Museum WIKI • WIKI Timeline –Start up was October 2014. WIKI launched January 2015 • Website Size – at 35 GB our SM WIKI is larger than 99% of comparable sites • Traffic – we received 210,000 hits in the first year of operation. • Facebook Page – 15% of SM WIKI hits come from WIKI’s FB Page • Links and Media – WIKI Topics 1,500 each; Site link count is 4,209 links • Audio/Video – 300 EFS videos loaded; -- 2,013 Images • On-Line Books – Nine complete ebooks, are available to read or download. • Site Security – Unique cyber security system defeats all attacks. Our data is secure. • Command Media -- SOP's, Desk Instructions, Back-Up plans, security, etc. 38 ea Most Clicked Outlinks-from-SM WIKI (Two source-WIKI sites gives totals > 100%) • 74.3 % of visitors Exit-To The Skydiving-Museum.org-Web-Page • 53.6 % of visitors Exit-To the eMuseum.xls Collections Most Seen Referring Domains works-words.com 45.43 % www.google.com 14.69 % www.facebook.com 14.9 % www.dropzone.com 3.36 % www.skydivemag.com 1.99 % "Most frequently Searched terms/topics (last 30 days) - 1.Pat Works' Books - FREE DOWNLOADS 2. BASE in Movies 3. Skydiving Museum (our collection of artifacts) 4. Barnstorming 5. Damian Hrdlicka 6. Freak Brothers 7. Skydance 8. First Use of Parachutes to Save Pilots 9. Jacques-Andre Istel 10. BASE Jumping Timeline. Check out the http://Skydiving-encyclopedia.com, a project of YOUR Skydiving Museum. Pat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189,

FIFTY SELECTED PARACHUTE REFERENCES, 1. WWW.SKYDIVING-ENCYCLOPEDIA.COM 2. A list of common abbreviations and technical terms in skydiving, from Bryan Burke’s The Student Skydiver’s Handbook,1 is available online from the Dropzone.com website (http:// www.dropzone.com/safety/resources/handbook/gloss2.shtml). 3. The USPA provides an online English skydiving glossary on its website (http://www.uspa.org/Default.aspxtabid=70) and information in Swedish is available online from the SFF website (http://www.sff.se). 4. aero.com, http://www.aero.com/publications/parachutes/9511/pc1195.htm 5. Arlington National Cemetery Website, Thomas Scott Baldwin: Major, United States Army Retrieved May 1, 2012. http://www.nationalaviation.org/baldwin-thomas/ 6. Arthur Gould Lee, No parachute. (London, UK: Jarrolds, 1968, ISBN 0090865901). 7. Aviatory Life Buoy - Patent # 1192479, July 25, 1916, held by inventor Solomon Lee Van Meter, Jr http://www.vanmetre.com/Misc/Life_Buoy.pdf 8. Ballistic recovery systems US 4607814 A, Boris Popov, Aug 26, 1986 9. BBC: Da Vinci's Parachute Flies (2000); FoxNews: Swiss Man Safely Uses Leonardo da Vinci Parachute (2008) 10. CSPA The Canadian Sport Parachuting Association—The governing body for sport skydiving in Ca* [http://stratocat.com.ar/fichas-e/1960/HMN-19600816.htm Excelsior III free-fall from a Stratospheric Balloall airborne sports. 11. Daniel Poore, A History of Early Flight. (New York, NY: Alfred Knopf, 1952). 12. Data of the stratospheric balloon launched on 8/16/1960 For EXCELSIOR III 13. David W. Tschanz, Flights of Fancy on Manmade Wings. IslamOnline.net. Retrieved July 11, 2008.http://www.islamonline.net/english/science/2003/05/article04.shtml 14. De Prins der Geillustreerde Bladen, February 18, 1911, p. 88-89. 15. Dr L. de Jong, 'Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog', (Dutch language) part 3, RIOD, Amsterdam, 1969 16. First jump with parachute from moving plane - Scientific American June 7, 1913. 17. French Web site on recent work on parachutes (in French): http://jmp-pan.blogspot.com/2008/02/historique-du-parachutisme-ascensionnel_988.html . Includes photo of Mr. Lemoigne. 18. Guttman, Jon (May 2012). "Heinecke Parachute: A Leap of Faith for WWI German Airmen". Military History Magazine: p.23. 19. hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padobran#Poboljšanja 20. http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/How-Things-Work-Whole-Airplane-Parachute.html 21. http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Parachute#Etymology 22. Jeffrey S. Hampton (2003-12-15). "'Hero of Aviation' speaks about record-setting free fall". The Virginian-Pilot. p. Y1. 23. John H. Lienhard, "Abbas Ibn Firnas" in The Engines of Our Ingenuity. NPR. KUHF-FM Houston. No. 1910 (2004). Retrieved July 11, 2008. 24. 2008.http://www.fi.edu/wright/again/wings.avkids.com/wings.avkids.com/Book/Vehicles/advanced/parachutes-01.html 25. John Wilkins. Mathematical Magic of the Wonders that may be Performed by Mechanical Geometry, part I: Concerning Mechanical Powers Motion, part II, Deadloss or Mechanical Motions. (London, UK, 1648) 26. Kentucky Aviation Pioneers Solomon Lee Van Meter Jr. (1888-1937), KET Aviation Museum Of Kentucky 27. Lee, Arthur Gould (1968), No parachute, London: Jarrolds, ISBN 0-09-086590-1 28. Lynn White, "The Invention of the Parachute" Technology and Culture 9(3) (1968): 462-467. 29. Mae West. Dictionary, encarta.msn.com. Retrieved July 11, 2008. http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861627693/Mae_West.html 30. Mahncke, J O E O (December 2000). "Early Parachutes, An evaluation of the use of parachutes, with special emphasis on the Royal Flying Corps and the German Lufstreitkräfte, until 1918". South African Military History Journal 11 (6). 31. Mars Exploration Rover Mission., August 26, 2004, NASA. Retrieved July 11, 2008. 32. May 1931, Popular Mechanics photo of observation balloon gondola with external bag parachutes used by British Royal Navy 33. Milestones. Airborne Systems. Retrieved July 11, 2008. 34. Mitcheltree, R; Witkowski, A, "High Altitude Test Program for a Mars Subsonic Parachute", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 35. National Aviation Hall of Fame, Thomas Scott Baldwin Retrieved May 1, 2012. 36. Parachute 37. Parachute History 38. Parachute. Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved July 11, 2008.http://www.etymonline.com/index.phpsearch=parachute&searchmode=none 39. Parachuting at the site Divo: The Russian Book of records and achievements (Russian) 40. Pierre Marcel Lemoigne, U.S. patent no. 3,228,636 (filed: 7 November 1963; issued: 11 January 1966). Available on-line at: http://www.google.com/patentsid=XcxVAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&zoom=4&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html . 41. Principles of Aeronautics, Parachutes. Franklin Institute. Cislunar Aerospace, Inc. Retrieved July 11, 2008. 42. Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier 43. Ritter, Lisa (April/May, 2010). "Pack Man: Charles Broadwick Invented a New Way of Falling". Air & Space 25 (1): 68–72. Retrieved March 1, 2013. 44. Russian parachute of Kotelnikov (Russian) 45. Scott Royce E. "Bo". Jump School at Fort Benning (originally published in a column called DUSTOFF in the July - August 1988 Issue of the Screaming Eagle Magazine) 46. See also: Theodor W. Knacke, "Technical-historical development of parachutes and their applications since World War I (Technical paper A87-13776 03-03)," 9th Aerodynamic Decelerator and Balloon Technology Conference (Albuquerque, New Mexico; 7–9 October 1986) (N.Y., N.Y.: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1986), pages 1-10. 47. Skydiving education 48. Smithsonian Institution. Manned Flight. (Pamphlet 1990.) 49. The 2nd FAI World Championships in Canopy Piloting - 2008 at Pretoria Skydiving Club South Africa 50. The Irvin Parachute & the Caterpillar Club. copied from Irvin Aerospace. Retrieved July 11, 2008. http://home.earthlink.net/~ralphcooper/pimagz17.htmhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/0090865901tag=encyclopediap-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0090865901&adid=0NQQZXQ96PDAJGB1J8XS 51. The Parachute History Collection at Linda Hall Library (text-searchable PDFs) 52. Tim Friend (1998-08-18). "Out of thin air His free fall from 20 miles (32 km) put NASA on firm footing". USA Today. p. 1D. 53. United States Patent US1108484 Available on-line at: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/1108484.pdf . 54. USPA The United States Parachute Association—The governing body for sport skydiving in the U.S. 55. White 1968, p. 465 56. White 1968, p. 466 57. White 1968, pp. 462f. 58. White, Lynn (1968), "The Invention of the Parachute", Technology and Culture 9 (3): 462–467, doi:10.2307/3101655, JSTOR 3101655 Pat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189,

Update: on free Internet skydiving Encyclopedia & Skydiving WIKI www.Skydiving-Encyclopedia.com A project of Skydiving Museum Collections & Curation to create an environment where everyone can enjoy and revel in our rich skydiving history; a place to record and maintain the accomplishments and milestones while telling the story of how the sport came to be what it is today. Audience: These pages tell an eloquent story for anyone who has ever strapped a parachute on their back, or wondered why anyone would… For scholars and professionals who use documentary editions such as this as research tools a searchable research tool for aviation enthusiasts with an interest in skydiving and the people whose contributions, passion and expertise have inspired us and made falling free a slice of ecstasy. Motivations: Skies call: Parachuting. Sharing why we fall. Enrichen parachuting. UPDATE: • o Significant growth in page hits: new site has 57,000 hits • o 'Eyeball-magnet' Wikis net high (eg. Pat's books got 8,000 ++ hits /3 days) • o Facebook & Dropzone remain good eye-getters • o Sharing History: Top authors add good content. [Help! SHARE HISTORY with history. Mary’s previous two weeks: 1. ADDED: Facebook page for SKYDIVING-ENCYCLOPEDIA. 2. LINKS: Current total of topics now loaded: 2798 [ January start-up it was zero] 3. MEDIA [PHOTOS/AV/ART]: CURRENT COUNT: 1516. 4. 273 Parachuting Profiles videos used in the wiki. 233 done. < 40 videos left to load

Ok, 1962 I join the Texas A&M Parachute Team -- Aggies: hard core, old army ROTC Military academy. No civilians. 24 hr x 7 military. I had 10 jumps. Elected training officer! Trained Mike Linz and Mike Mullins. team memvers received 2-complete freefall-sport rigs. Provided by Sgt. Ritchee / the Foort Hood Parachute Club. .... they gifted us rear, smoke grenades, C-Rations, flash-bang, flare pistols ....My, my. They were featured as part of the Conferdate Air Force and were a big part of the Texas Parachute Council that Fitch formed into PCS/USPA. Aggies went to every parachute meet in Texas, Oaklahoma and Lousiand. ....Looong dirives. All night. Parachute as sleeping bag sucks in cold. Ft. Hood sends agents to Houston: In Houston 1965 my pal from Houston Bellaire High School shows George 'Hop' Harbeson with Stanley Troller (SCR 53) Ex-Nam vets, discharged onto humanity by U.S. Army, Ft. Hood into Houston's Wallace's Outlaws DZ and spa. Fit like a glove. Maxwell and Boravicka show up. Jumps happen. Hot. Jumpsuits = shorts + Big welders gloves. gene Ritche is gone. Hop and Stan lurk on; RW is beginning. We flew. We burned the blue

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Big Air is addicting. Air poetry envisioning & discovering new worlds; not falling off the edges. Discovering, like Columbus’ Americas. Grand visuals. We. Dancers of the sky. We are a butterfly. Ground RW party: Raves. Most excellent of Party. Black belt: Practiced That part. Moves I already knew... Rewound me back 25 years with abject smiles. Been there? Abide awhile because 'forever' is fleeting... Skydance Resonances I wrote in '80s gathers it into 40 pages... damn, wish i could find it. Anybody seen it?