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Gus Wing, D-7117, a frequent contributor to PARACHUTIST, supplied this photo of former Skydive DeLand co-owner/operator Tom Piras over the Florida DZ during this year's Easter boogie. Piras' former partner Bob Hallett has since assumed full control of the drop zone.
Bob Feisthamel submitted this Ken Jorgensen photo of Feisthamel's Tension Free teammates Bob Suchor, Lynn Kleen and Daryl Dassinger over Spearfish, SD. Tension Free took home a box of medals from last year's National Skydiving Championships of CRW, including gold medals in 4-way sequential and 8-way speed stack and silver medals in 4-way rotation.
Eric Vickery, C-15915, was there to record Bob Johns of Alaska on an accuracy approach during the 1986 National Para-ski Championships in Utah. Johns tied with Nick Kingery for first place in the men's open accuracy event. More photos and the report on the Championships begins on page 25.
Norman Kent got this shot of 1985 U.S. Team members exiting a helicopter over Japan with Mt. Fujiyama in the background.
Photographer Alf Humphries docked last on an 8-stack over Loveland, CO to get this shot. Top to bottom in the formation are Jeff Wagner, Doug Wyatt, Bruce McQuery, Tim Monsees, Keith Butler, Stuart Wyatt, and unidentified jumper and Humphries.
Craig Hanson, D-8245, got this shot of the Impulse 8-way team in practice over Perris Valley, CA. Impulse finished in a tie for fifth at the 1985 National Skydiving Championships in Muskogee, OK.
Tom Sanders brought back this shot of the Army Parachute 8-way Team exiting the Bird Machine DC-3 from the 1985 National Skydiving Championships in Muskogee. Edged out for the gold medal by Coors, Golden Knight Commanding Officer Larry Nelson told PARACHUTIST recently that the APT would again concentrate on the 8-way event in '86.
Gus Wing, D-7117, strapped his 35mm on the tail of the trail Cessna for this shot of a formation load exit over the Buckingham Parachute Center in Orange, VA. Pilot Bob Churchill, D-7253, snapped the photo as his airplane emptied.
Norman Kent, who spent most of last month in Yugoslavia for the VIth World Championships of RW (page 15) submitted this photo of a 3-stack landing at Perris Valley Paracenter prior to his departure. Kent's photos of the world championships will accompany Craig Fronk's complete story in next month's PARACHUTIST.
Mike Homer, Esther Bick, Ernie Long, Phyllis McCauley and Steve Dramstad check out cameraman Mike McGowan over the Aero Country DZ in Texas. McGowan is a frequent contributor to PARACHUTIST whose work has also appeared in the annual USPA Calendar. (For more information on ordering the 1986 USPA Skydive Calendar, see page 34 of this issue.)
Gary Cobb, D-8876, designed the official logo for the 1985 National Skydiving Championships which appears on this month's cover and on the official National Championships T-shirts and hats (see page 44 for ordering information). The complete report on the 1985 Budweiser Skydiving Championships begins on page 14 of this issue.
Joe O'Leary, D-8727, got this month's cover shot of Steven Haskett, Dwight MacArthur and Sam White over the Brazos Valley Paracenter in Bryan, TX. All four jumpers are members of the Texas A&M University Sport Parachute Club which uses Brazos Valley as its home DZ. Shortly after taking this shot O'Leary was en route to Spaceland, TX where he took part in an apparent world record 23-stack June 16 (see page 19).
Who's that guy under a square canopy flying around the Eiffel Tower? Why's that helicopter hovering so close? And what's that boat with the balloons doing in the Seine River? It's all in the name of Hollywood and the greater glory of James Bond movies and you can find out all about it by reading B.J. Worth's story on page 27. Cover photo by Don Caltvedt.
Rande Deluca, D-5878, caught this month's cover shot of a DC-3 dumping a load out of two side doors. Deluca was one of the early pioneers of freefall photography; with nearly 3,000 jumps he is one of the most experienced shooters in the sport.
European photographer Max Dereta was there to get this shot of a canopy stack forming high above the clouds over Texel, Holland. The shot first appeared in Heinz Fischer's Skydiver Magazine. For an American skydiving couple's view of skydiving in Europe, see the story by Dennis and Anne Worden on page 23.
Gus Wing brought back this shot of his wife Kemper on a demo the couple performed into the University of Virginia football stadium in Charlottesville, VA. The occasion was the Virginia Cavaliers/Maryland Terrapins football game.
Tanya Stringham, D-7121, leaned out the window of Bill Dause's DC-3 to get this exit shot of the Dead Meat 10-way team during the Best of the West meet at the Lodi, CA DZ. Although reigning national champions of the 10-way event, Dead Meat was beaten by The Clutch at the Best of the West competition.
Photographer Lou Bottoms caught Florida jumper Kathy Embrey following a stream of other jumpers after an exit from the Mr. Douglas DC-3 at the DeLand, FL drop zone earlier this year. The jumps culminated in a women's world record 48-way formation.
Martin Klett, D-7827, took this shot of Connie Murphy, Dennis Hendrick and Steve Johnson hamming it up over the Perris Valley drop zone in California. According to Murphy, "Skydiving can be many things to us, but one thing's for sure...It's fun."
The frost may not be on the pumpkin just yet, but autumn has already arrived in certain parts of the courntry, like the White Mountain Parachute Center in Moultonboro, NH for example. Welcoming the arrival of fall and the season of witches, goblins and jack o'lanterns are George Ireland with his pal Chumly. According to photograher Bruce Therrien, "The jump went as planned and was uneventful until landing when Chumly sustained minor injuries." Chumly's make-up by Lisa.
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