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View ArticleAnd What a Glorious Day it Was 210 Years Ago
Oct 22, 1797… The modern parachute is born as Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the 1st human parachute descent from the air. Garnerin jumps from a hydrogen balloon at a height of 2,300 feet in Paris....
View ArticleTechnology Tuesday
Someone had to test it…. [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] It’s not in English, but…when they hold up the <...
View Article10 Years Ago, the Wind Was Light, the Skies Clear, a Record Was Set
It was cool, but not cold. The skies were beckoning. Four aircraft sat fueled, waiting for the turbines to crank. 89 jumpers, two of them camera “flyers,” milled about, discussing the 5 jumps...
View Article10 Years Ago (Cont)
I wrote the post in Oct, about the time the ValOUR-IT Once movie full fund drive was kicking in and I hadn’t figured out how to pull video off a DVD that was made from a video tape of the event. Now, I...
View ArticleBefore Parachuting from a Aerial Vehicle, There Was a BASE Jump…
Dec 26th, 1783. Louis-Sébastien Lenormand was the man who did the deed. From Wikipedia: After making a jump from a tree with the help of two modified umbrellas Lenormand refined his contraption and on...
View ArticleNews You Can Use – 100 Way 11/21/2007
[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.]More “gouge” here. Teaser from a blog entry: 11/21/2007 Sarge and Wendy’s Daily Blog When you set your...
View ArticleHanging out with your friends…107 of them
At 170MPH…7/31/2009: New World Record in Skydiving: Head Down Formation of 108. Done at Skydive Chicago, with jumpers from around the world, and the head down craze inspired by a dude named Olav...
View ArticleOne Day, 14 Years Ago, It Wasn’t So Much Fun Skydiving
Uncle Jimbo did a great “kiss and tell” on his first civilian skydive, mentored by one of his SF brethren. Part of me wants to laugh a little, as it was one of those stare over the edge and laugh at...
View ArticleFreefly Friday (or any other day!)
Only toyed with vertical flying a bit, but did a lot of belly flying myself. I do recall the time I intentionally treid sit flying, I found it did make you fall with a huge silly grin on your face....
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