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.

Braving a sub-zero wind-chill factor, Eastern Conference Director Dave Waight gets his "knees in the breeze"  over Maytown, PA.

Vic Logan in a head-down dive over Elsinore, CA.  Photo by Paul Grimshaw of Santa Barbara, CA.

Gary Young of Tustin, CA unintenionally demonstrates the importance of a pre-flight pin-check during a 16-way exit over Elsinore, CA.  Fortunately nothing was injured except his pride.  Photo by Norman A. Kent.

All ten members of Mirror Image "pose" for a group portrait over Tecumseh, MI while training for the World Championships in Chateauroux, France.  "The Mirror" went on to burn a 5.16 second ten-way star while in France setting a new world record in the event.