Dave Keith, D-5441, led the FX-10 10-way team during a practice jump over Perris, CA.  The team capatained by Bob Butt and including Scott Flanahghan, Bob Smith, Bob McCord, Jeff Rodenbech, Richard Eacobacci, Mike Swan, Jim Kelly, Ken Masters and Dan Pillasch, plans to enter the 10-way speed star competition at next month's U.S. National Skydiving Championships at Skydive Arizona.

Tom Sanders, D-6503, filmed this sequence for the upcoming FOX network TX show, "Ultimate Challenge." World-famous stunt pilots Craig Hoskings and Jim Franklin flew jumpers Jim Wallace (red) and Kevin Donnelly (yellow) to 18,000 feet, deployed drogues from their Stearman bi-planes and the two skydivers successfully switched planes.  Norman Kent was also on hand with his cameras, and Jerry Meyers performed the first few attempts with Donnelly.

Skyhi Visual Productions' J.J. Johnson, D-6920, followed the U.S. Army's Golden Knights and their assigned cameraman, Pine Pinaar, as they scored another National Championships in 8-way.  See the full report on page 44.

Tom LeBus, D-12034, snapped this shot of Denny Gainor and Danny Albert over Perris, CA.

A Utah-based jumper with 1200-plus jumps, Keith Stewart, D-8176, the official photographer for this year's National ParaSki Championships, catpured Rick Barta on final for the "peas"at Park West.   the full Championships report begins on page 24 of this issue.

British Royal Marines built this European record CRW stack over Netherhaven in southern England—a 17-way diamond, with Simon Ward as photographer.  see story, page 26.

With Lake Okeechobee in the background, Mike Allen, D-10180, captures 4-way practice over Clewiston, FL.  Allen works fulltime for a Miami-based TV production company.

Mike Ince, D-7424, sneaks up behind Sherry Herssig over SkyDance Skydiving in Davis, CA, nestled in the wine country northeast of San Francisco.

During filming of Norman Kent's new video, "Kinesthesia," Gus Wing, D-7117, photographed Deanna Kent against a sunset in the Florida Keys.

Tom Sanders, D-6503, gets back-to-back covers (see last month) with another breathtaking photograph.  This time, it's his favorite subject, Jan Davis, under canopy over Mt. Edgemont in New Zealand.

Tom Sanders, D-6503, caught this exclusive photo of the World Record (as yet unofficial) Women's CRW formation built over the October 6-7 weekend in Madera, CA.  The group was organized by Linda Stokely and Lori Bartlett.  Sanders and camerman-CRW enthusiast Brad Hood teamed together to film the event.  Sanders, a professional cinematographer with 4,000 jumps, plans to use this footage in an upcoming movie about several action sports.

Keith Iceberg, D-4750, is a filmmaker who divides his time between Florida and New York.  A tandem and AFF instructor with over 3,900 jumps, Iceberg accompanied U.S. Teams to the World Meets in 1985 and 1987 as a videographer, and his footage has been aired internationally.  His still work was displayed before over 10,000 people at OK Harris, the first major New York gallery to show skydiving as art.

Ian Graham provided the artwork for this year's Nationals.  He and his wife Patti operate Caledonian Graphics in Zephyrhills, FL.  Graham has made 1,600 jumps since 1978 and was a member of the British Royal Marines Freefall Team, where he piloted the world record 24-stack.

For the first time in 33 months, the unmistakable photography of Norman Kent, D-8369, returns to the cover of PARACHUTIST (although his work has been featured dozens of times inside in the meantime.)  This shot was taken in Key Largo, FL.  Kent has been active in Hollywood, where he lives.  A sample of his recent work graced last month's center spread.

Mike McGowan, D-5709, flies in behind a giant U.S. flag carried by his wife, Misty Blues team member Nancy Auge, during the teams's training camp last spring at Flager Aviation in Bunnell, FL.  (See related story on page 24.)  McGowan became entangled with a similar flag while trying to get this shot last winter and had to resort to reserve procedures to get clear.

All of America's trophies and medals from the Canopy Relataive Work Championships in Chiangmai, Thailand were photographed just after the award ceremony by Cliff Dobson, D-1193.  This cover picture is a first for Dobson since his initial static line in 1962, despite 5,000-plus jumps, seven world championships and 21 world medals.  Dobson, who runs the Skydive Tampa Bay group member DZ in Florida, has competed 15 times at the Nationals, often with his son Cliffer.  His daughter Michele is also a serious jumper.  For the story of the championships, see page 18.

Mike Allen, D-10180, caught Shelly Jones in a freestyle T over the Air Adventures Florida DZ in Clewiston.  She is the daughter of Bill and Kay Jones, who operate the DZ, the site of last winter's U.S. Collegiate National Skydiving Championships.  This is the second PARACHUTIST cover shot at Clewiston; the last one appeared in March, 1988.

Dave Keith, D-5441, provided this shot of Cathy Conklin and James Hulse going floater for a load out of DC-3 "Our Douglas" over Hulse's house in Santa Maria, CA.  Eleven jumpers built a round for the back-yard demo.

Andrzej Jesmanowicz, D-9978, followed this CRW maneuver building over the Wisconsin Skydivers DZ in Menominee Falls, WI.  The group, led by Mike Mayotte, was attempting a "five-by-side," and according to Jezmanowicz, "came pretty close."  They expect to try again this season.

Jamie Paul provided this winterscape featuring the new kids on the CRW block, Quantum Leap, practicing over the Archway Parachute Center in Sparta, IL.  The team clobbered some of the perennial winners to place second during U.S. Team tryouts at Clewiston, FL over the Christmas and New Year's holiday.