{"id":16994,"date":"2015-07-22T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skydivemag.com\/new\/?p=16994"},"modified":"2015-07-22T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T23:00:00","slug":"2015-07-23-tony-uragallo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skydivemag.com\/new\/2015-07-23-tony-uragallo\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up with Tony Uragallo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skydivemag.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/\/2acdf79d-ba27-4f98-ad64-7ce2664bb108.jpeg\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tony shooting accuracy, 1976\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skydivemag.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/\/f632a25b-38d6-4cf8-b679-ff23514a6f21.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Tony Uragallo, the man behind the world\u2019s most wanted flight suits, only ever intended to make one jumpsuit. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt was England in the 70s, we jumped in any old rag&#8230; but then a mate turned up with a great looking Clawson suit \u2013 it was black with rainbows and made from baggy heavy cotton. We were all amazed. I borrowed my mum\u2019s sewing machine to make my own version. When I was done I told myself never again,\u201d<\/em> Tony said. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tony Uragallo and Bob Hiatt, in belly fly suits of the time\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skydivemag.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/\/4968b1c9-b622-49a1-976d-e588c6e618c6.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 40 years and an untold number of suits of every variety later, all skydivers can be happy Tony Uragallo didn\u2019t stick to his resolve. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNothing worthwhile is every easy. I said \u2018never again\u2019 for the first few suits I made, but when everyone I knew was asking me to make them one, I bought a commercial sewing machine &#8211; Mum wanted hers back &#8211; and I went to work. I loved to listen to the traffic jam reports in London as I sat in my room listening to music and sewing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Symbiosis 1976: Geoff S, Dave W, Steve E, Tony, Mike C, Willi G, Mark M, Dane K, Rob C\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skydivemag.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/\/037946fd-f6cf-4479-8c86-7d74737ca6c8.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Tony\u2019s jumping career began in the Parachute Regiment RHA Reserves. They regularly did drops with the 105mm Pack Howitzer &#8211; a serious gun designed to be towed to location by a Land Rover or airdropped by parachute. Laughing at the memory Tony said, <em>\u201cWe\u2019d jump in, shoot these things and then Rob from our team would phone back and adjust our aim.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI started sport skydiving in 1970 and I never looked back.  I was very lucky with my start. Two of the guys I was in the reserves with lived close to me in London, we bowled on Friday nights and then we started skydiving together. A fourth chap asked us if we wanted to start a 4-way team.  He bought four Stratostar rigs and a van and we started a team. Just before we left for our first training camp in Spain there was a rule change to sequential. We were lucky; when we came back and did the nationals we were the only ones that had trained the new rules so we won. We stayed together for many years and I kept making suits.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tony Uragallo, World Wingsuit League, China\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skydivemag.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/\/b6681ea5-dfac-4304-907a-ba36a61902a8.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Skydiving and Tony Suits have both come a long way since then. Tony moved to Florida, USA in 1979 because <em>\u201cSkydiving in the winter was a joke in England. When I finish a prototype I\u2019m bummed if I can\u2019t get a 20-minute call on the next load. In England, I\u2019d be waiting for weeks.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI always knew I\u2019d get into wingsuits. I made the body of Patrick de Gayardon\u2019s suits and then he would add the wings. That was fun, but then he went and died and that was very sad. Then I did the same thing for Adrian Nicholas \u2013 he set a world record in 1999 when he flew for nearly five minutes, covering 10 miles. But then he died&#8230; I watched Birdman start up and I thought I&#8217;d see how popular it would be. Once I started making wingsuits I loved it and I still do&#8230; Sewing a wingsuit that I think will blow all the other suits away is exciting, but then jumping it can be scary. I do at least one prototype a week.  I never need an alarm clock to get me to work.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tianmen Cave, China\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skydivemag.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/\/cbdc0521-877c-41e5-bda6-9b00f402c9df.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Tony Wingsuits currently have nine models, catering for beginners through to experts. The suits are dominating all the major competitions worldwide.  In 2013 the suits won the World Base Race (WBR) in Norway (Jhonathan Florez), the U-turn Race in Norway (Gleb Vorevodin) and the Stechelberg ProBASE (Julian Boulle) and in 2012 Tony piloted his Apache to win the WBR. <em>\u201cI was pretty proud of that, most of the other pilots were half my age. I\u2019ve retired from serious BASE now though, I can\u2019t handle the deaths, it\u2019s too tough seeing great people do their last jump.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m not still constantly looking for improvement in the suits. I don\u2019t know the future but I know Tony suits will keep improving. It occupies my mind most of the time. Relaxing in the evening I get ideas. I remember the good ones and I make patterns the next day. I see a 3D shape and then I make a 1D plastic into that 3D shape. With a wingsuit I imagine carving a clay wing, then I sew the ribs together and inflate it to see if it resembles the clay carving.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tony Uragallo wins World Base Race, 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skydivemag.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/\/d36cffd3-e717-4d75-a69d-2f28f5ba144f.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI never get tired of seeing people laugh over a suit I just made for them. Winning competitions, constantly innovating, at 60 I&#8217;m still hanging with the big dogs.\u201d<\/em> (And clearly it\u2019s keeping him young.)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Other styles of Tony suit are also evolving. \u201cI still enjoy making the flat and freefly suits. I just reworked all the freefly patterns and today we looked at a new type of gripper foam and new pattern-making software.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'Life is short. There's no excuse for not living your life to your full potential' - WWL\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skydivemag.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/\/8c7e277b-0fe7-406f-ae26-ee3054e14cb7.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>When asked what\u2019s next for Tony Uragallo he said, <em>\u201cNext summer I fancy a shop in Wyoming, my wife has a horse there, so I might try that. I want my own runway and light plane. We\u2019re going to tour the USA with the shop and check it out.  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