Photographer J.C. Colclasure captured this shot of Jonathan Tagle of the PD Factory Team throwing the peace sign under canopy during Swoop Week at Mile-Hi Skydiving Center in Longmont, Colorado.

Photographer Craig O'Brien captured this shot of Lara Eisenberg throwing the peace sign during a formation skydiving load over Perris Valley Skydiving in California.

Photographer Wendy Smith captured this shot of a jumper descending under canopy at Body Fly University in Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Photographer Norman Kent captured this shot of Team Fastrax members Travis Donely, John Hart, Brian Marzluf and Doug Park in freefall with a sophisticated pyrotechnics system attached to their legs during a demo training jump over Skydive Palatka in Florida.

Photographer Hal Moore captured this shot of Rob Wallace during a 2-way freefly dive above Xtreme Divers West in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

Photographer Jason Peters captured this shot of the 20-way women's head-down formation that the group is claiming as a new world record, completed March 21 over Skydive Arizona in Eloy.

Photographer Gary Wainwright captured this shot of 4-way teams Perris Fury, Bodyflight Storm and Paradox coming together for an impromptu 12-way above Perris Valley Skydiving in California.

Photographer Craig O'Brien captured this shot of Eli Thompson (bottom) and Mike Nikolaev hanging from the chest straps of Pat McGowan (left) and Alex Nikolaev over the Pacific Skydiving Center on Waialua, Hawaii.

Photographer David Major captured this shot of Mike Messick trailing a streamer under canopy above Black Rock City, Nevada, during the annual Burning Man festival.

Photographer Norman Kent captured this shot of canopy formation jumpers completing a 100-way formation using their Performance Designs Lightning canopies over the Florida Skydiving Center in Lake Wales, setting a new world record.

Photographer Karen Lewis captured this shot of Parachutist Over Phorty Society (POPS) members building a abase while they wait for swoopers to join them on their way to a new 113-way POPS world record.

Photographer Bryan Scott captured this shot of a 15-way canopy formation during a recent CF world record tryout camp at Skydive City in Zephyrhills, Florida.

Photographer Ludovic Gfeller captured this shot of Jeffro Provenzano performing a Blindman as he takes a look at Gruyere Castle in Gruyere, Switzerland.

Photographer Brian Buckland took this shot of the 69-way head-down formation that the group is claiming as a new world record, completed August 3 over Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, Illinois.

Photographer Peter Gerencser captured the shot of freeflyers chunking an exit out of the Otter above Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, Illinois, during Project Horizon V.

Photographer Tom Sanders of Aerial Focus captured this shot of Oliver Furrer dressed as the title character in one of 20th Century Fox's summer releases, "Fantatistic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer," during a promotional demo above Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina.

Photographer Jens Hameister captured this shot of Team Extreme's Nick Batsch (left) and Jim Slaton performing at the Al Ain airshow in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Sergeant Jon Ewald captiured this shot of the U.S. Army Golden Knights Black demonstration team training over Yuma, Arizona.

Ron Lengel captured this self portrait in the reflection of a chrome ball over Air Adventures in Clewiston, Florida. 

Nix White took this shot of (left to right) Larry Summerfield, Shawn Tufts and Josh Leasure of the Navy Parachute Team performing a 3-way side-by-side over Skydive San Diego.  USPA staff took five versions of March 2007 Parachutist covers to the Parachute Industry Association symposium in February and had attendees vote for their favorite.  White's photograph garnered the win.