robertogozzi

Here is the 53-way pic!

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Congratulations! Nice video. Do you also have a picture of the 53 way. Because your pic looks like a 50 way

The pic is the 50-way we made in jump 3, which was the new record, then the organizers replaced 3 of the 4 cameraflyer with skydivers in the bench to increase the record size to 53, which was set the next jump.
Unfortunately the only cameraflyer we had could only shoot videos, not pictures!
That's why the video is correct but the picture is not, despite being that of a record the same day, just the jump before.

Here is the video:
https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/photo.php?v=2426203543662
and I attach a picture.
The skydive was from 1 skyvan + 2 porters + 1 turbo finist.
Exit altitude 15k (4500 m.).

On saturday October 8th, 2011, in Arezzo, 53 skydivers set the new italian FS record. It was long overdue since the previous one (48-way) was set in 2000.
Marco Arrigo's goals for the next year are to go bigger to 80 before summer and, possibly, to 100 before the end of the year!
It was great. Good luck! Stay safe!

RIP Keith, I'll never forget you.

There are some DZ's near Milan and Venice. They are Verona, Thiene, Salgareda and Cremona, their websites are:
http://www.paracadutismoverona.it/
http://www.skydivethiene.it/
http://www.cpvpara.com/
http://www.skyteamcremona.it/

but as far as I know they are open only on WE's. The only DZ open 7/7 (but you'd better call) is in Arezzo:

http://www.skydivetortuga.com/

which is near Florence and quite a bit far from Milan and Venice.

I know these two links:

http://www.skyday.net/en/
http://www.freefly.com/

but as of today, Aug.27, at 17:15 (championship time), both of them show no results.

The latter one has some pictures online, but still no results!

Maybe general interests in this discipline is not so high even among official sites.

The FAI page:

http://events.fai.org/parachuting/details.asp?id=3471/

has a link to the first above cited.