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May 2010
Volume 51 | Issue 607
On the cover: photo by Bruno Brokken | USPA #96017
Rich Grimm, the founder of Boogie in Belize, flies over the Great Blue Hole, where a boat awaits to pick up skydivers once they splash down.
Video of the jump in which the picture was taken. |
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| FEATURES
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34 | 2010 USPA Safety Day | a Parachutist Special Report
Every year in the spring, jumpers gather together at drop zones in the U.S. and around the world to share safety information and to honor a lucky recipient with the Chesley H. Judy Safety Award. This year, USPA offered expanded support to help make Safety Day an increasingly fun and interactive event for participants.
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36 | The Secrets of D.B. Cooper, Part One—Notorious Flight 305 | by Musika Farnsworth
In 1971, a man who went by the name Dan Cooper leapt from a Boeing 727 over the rugged wilderness of the Pacific Northwest with $200,000 of stolen money, perpetrating a hijacking that remains unsolved. In part one of this series, we revisit that fateful day.
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42 | Getting Up There: Jump Planes Through the Years | by Howard White
The 11th installment of this series takes a look at the Short Skyvan, a very popular boogie attraction and the only tailgate aircraft that is a regular part of civilian jump fleets in the U.S.
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46 | Good, Clean Fun—Skydive Sebastian’s Team Dirty Sanchez Luau | by Amanda Owens
Team Dirty Sanchez held its fifth annual Hawaiian luau from March 5-7, providing a great time for skydivers and raising money for Florida’s endangered species.
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50 | Skydive Expo | by Guilherme Cunha
The first Skydive Expo, held in DeLand, Florida, from March 11-14, treated jumpers to an exhibition of the latest and greatest in skydiving gear, seminars by some of skydiving’s leading authorities and expert load organizing in a variety of disciplines. USPA was there to lend a hand and to help make March 13, Safety Day at the expo, an event to remember.
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54 | Unbelizeable! | by Fiona Horne
At February’s end, jumpers from around the world escaped winter and gathered at one of the most beautiful tropical boogie locations, the country of Belize, for 10 days of warm weather and skydiving fun.
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59 | Goodbye Winter! |
a Parachutist Pictorial
In this pictorial, we salute those jumpers who braved cold, snow and ice to get in the air and have the photos to prove it
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