Recently, a well-known drop zone updated its packing pricing schedule as follows:

Square footage of canopy:

Sub-100—$6

100 to 199—$7

200 to 299—$8

300-plus—$9

At the recent USPA Board of Directors meeting, the board voted to give $25,000 per year for the next six years to a yet-to-be-constructed skydiving museum. I am concerned as to why the board voted for this extraordinary amount of skydivers’ dues to be spent in this manner.

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Laura Dawson
lauradawsonglass.com

This is the month for you and other USPA members to select those 22 members who will serve on USPA’s board of directors and determine the association’s direction for the next three years. In this issue of Parachutist, you’ll find the election instructions and a ballot.

Photo by Norman Kent  |  D-8369

Jumpers follow the base out of a Skyvan during the successful Skydivers Over Sixty World Record attempts at Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, Illinois, where the team eventually built a 75-way formation.

USPA Nationals season came to an end Thursday, September 27, at Skydive Sebastian in Florida, one day ahead of schedule. Sebastian hosted 10 days of canopy action for the 2018 USPA National Parachuting Championships, which included classic accuracy, canopy formation and canopy piloting.

Ten good reasons to support the 1968 United States Parachute Team.  See page 6 for the story of their training and more Chip Maury photos.

There are several modern AADs available for skydivers to choose from, all of which offer jumpers the ability to offset the activation altitude (temporarily change the activation-altitude settings to compensate for a landing area that is higher or lower than the point of departure). Additionally, both the Airtec CYPRES 2 and the Advanced Aerospace Designs Vigil 2+ offer a feature that allows users to increase the activation altitude semi-permanently (until the user changes it again).

In the days following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the nation reorganized its priorities. While President Bush called for a return to life as normal in America, no group outside New York City, Pennsylvania and Northern Virginia felt the sting as much as civil aviation.

Follow all the scores at OmniSkore.com, and check out USPA’s Facebook page for photos throughout the event, which continues until September 18.

After nearly two full days on the ground due to weather, the first events wrapped up at the 2018 USPA National Skydiving Championships at Chicagoland Skydiving Center in Rochelle, Illinois.

Alex Patterson and Erick Arevalo work on head-down exits with Brianne Thompson during the Arizona X-Force Vericial Challenge at Skydive Arizona in Eloy.

Photo by Nathan Roth | C-41152

Amy and Cliff Butler exit over Skydive Monroe.

Photo by Max Sidner | D-24801

By Noah Clark| D-36812

Wearing rig with a tertiary canopy, Noah Clarke hangs under a 28-foot-diameter round parachute manufactured in January 1953 that he will cut away to celebrate his 1,000th skydive.

85 competitors from 27 nations test their skills at the Federation Aeronautique Internationale 7th Canopy Piloting World Championships and 1st Freestyle Canopy Piloting World Championships.

Photo by Michael Tomaselli | D-18530

Canopy formation skydivers enjoy the view of a beautiful cloudscape during the Dawg Daze Boogie at Chicagoland Skydiving Center in Rochelle, Illinois.

At Skydive the Ranch in Gardiner, New York, (clockwise from left) Stephen Boyle, Dennis Dorman and Eric Junge launch a 3-way head down exit.

Photo by Laszlo Andacs | D-22468

 Imagine a place that captures all of our sport’s exciting and dynamic history, where jumpers and non-jumpers alike can see the evolution of skydiving and the many facets of its rich and storied past. That’s the dream of the International Skydiving Museum and Hall of Fame, which the late USPA Executive Director Emeritus William H. Ottley conceived decades ago.