Thundering into the pea gravel at the Tahlequah, OK drop zone is George McCandless  Photo by George Frey.

Photo by Carl Nelson, courtesy Roger Nelson.

A flying carpet of jumpers over Limerick, PA.  Photo by Tom Dunn, courtesy of Jerry Irwin.

Rick Ellwanger, D-3634, tracks off into the sunset after a skydive over the Coolidge, AZ Parachute Ranch.  Rick, by the way, holds a PhD in Chemistry and is Technical Director for American Cyanamid in his hometown of Tuscon, AZ.  Photo by Tony Gonzales and courtesy of Adventure/Travel magazine.

Artist Paul Bond is a skydiver and commercial artist in Des Plaines, IL.  He first envisioned this 12-way "planet" after seeing films on TV of the first 50-way at Elsinore, CA.  Bond has spent much free time since then drafting, sketching and painting this artwork, an appropriate symbol of skydiving in the decade to come.  He feels this dive "is the next logical step in freefall formations," and adds "I hope people have fun trying to figure out how to do this one in freefall."  For related story see page 19.