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An aerial celebration of the Chinese new year<\/h3>\n

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Elite skydivers from around the globe gathered in DeLand , Florida for a skydiving formation challenge to celebrate the Chinese new year<\/p>\n

Blessing from the sky by Edson Pacheco<\/a><\/p>\n

Blessing from the sky<\/h2>\n

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“I was honored to be part of the production and responsible to film and edit this documentary about a skydiving formation challenge called ” Blessing from the sky” for the Aero Sports Federation of China to celebrate the Chinese new year.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“It was a great feeling to see old friends from the Skydiving World again and meet new ones, this was a incredible task well orchestrated by Solly Williams, (hats off to you Sir)<\/em><\/p>\n

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“I’d like to thank all the production team: Brian Festi, Richard Powell , Max Li , Ralph Wilhelm , Zach Lewis, Jordan Av-tal, Carolina Caballero Beguiristain .<\/p>\n

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“Special thanks to Mr. Peng Ding, Mr. Yongly Wang, our outstanding translator Yu Liao , Hari Ganapathy , Luc Maisin, Eliott Lesimple , Chris Lynch, Jeana Billing, Carey Whitley , Laiming Zhu, Yu Lou, Feng Feng, Edward Bushman Anderson , Mandy Feijen , Bart Daenen , Mariuschka Lovera…<\/p>\n

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“Unfortunately I don’t know most of the people that participated in this event so please feel free to share this video with all of them… Thank You!”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Edson Pacheco<\/strong><\/p>\n

RELATED ARTICLE<\/h3>\n

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**[<\/strong>Adventures in China ](https:\/\/skydivemag.smallteaser.com\/article\/adventures-in-china<\/a>)<\/strong>by Pete Allum**<\/p>\n

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The pre-cursor to this event, skydivers build the Chinese Flag in freefall for a massive airshow. Here the idea for the ‘Heavenly Blessing’ formation was drawn on a napkin! ****<\/p>\n

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