We have some very sad news from this morning: On April 3, 2014 at approximately 7:30 a.m an experienced skydiver had a main parachute malfunction. The malfunctioning parachute was released too low to allow the reserve parachute to fully open. The skydiver was declared dead at the scene. The incident was not related to the

World Team didn’t complete a FAI sanctioned world record today. The final jump was almost completed, but it fell short by two skydivers that were unable to link up. History We are celebrating the 20th anniversary of World Team with this final event Fly It Forward, the way we started it in 1994, in Bratislava,

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The team has just come down from its third attempt of the day, practicing the first point of the 222-way skydive formation. It was a good jump but not nearly a completion. They are focused at this point on building a solid 222-way. Once the first point is achieved, the team will make the move to

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The team was only able to make two jumps today. It was a very early show, at 0630, 222 skydivers, 10 pilots, and a slew of support staff were on hand and the jumpers were geared up ready to dirt dive once or twice before a 0700 launch of the 10 aircraft… and then a

The third day began with some reorganizing of the sectors. The sectors that had been doing 132-ways on the full base downsized to 90-ways off a mini base and yesterday’s 90-ways were able to practice on the full base as a 132-way. Yesterday the 90-ways completed a first point and today, the 90-ways also completed the

The day started early as winds were expected later in the afternoon. The base made two practice jumps with only the Alpha team docking as one sector. The idea was to settle out any issues. The base performed solidly on the second jump and the decision was made to begin the first 222-way attempts. Chomping

The team captains are beasting the team into shape. After the first 132-way and 90-way attempts, one captain said, “Almost nothing went right.” But it’s like blacksmithing, you have to pound the metal and shape it, it takes a little while and a lot of pounding!” It's like making horseshoes, you have to pound and