From the BBC:
Two men have broken the record for the world’s highest base jump after parachuting from the top of Dubai’s 828m (2,716ft) Burj Khalifa tower.
Nasr Al Niyadi and Omar Al Hegelan, from the Emirates Aviation Society, were given permission to jump, and broke the base jump record on Tuesday, a day after the [...]
From Sir Richard Branson’s blog:
Message just in from Omar of Skydiver Network…
Kind of reminds us of having to do this in Vietnam for each and every lift we went on.. Funny the first couple of times, but certainly tedious and definitely pointless after that!
A message to all members of Skydiver Network
Dear Members,
 Come February, we may have to go through [...]
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Tandem Skydive Experience with Extreme Sports Cafe at our partner Drop Zone in Sri Racha near Pattaya in Thailand.
To do a Tandem Skydive requires no experience but there are weight restrictions.
The maximum weight for a Tandem Skydive is 95 Kilos. (fully clothed)
Available all year round
WE ARE NOW TAKING BOOKINGS FOR TANDEMS FROM 14th NOVEMBER 2008
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Cool article on Wired.com..
Maddox has been into skydiving for 20 year and used to compete in tracking contests, where free-falling skydivers move horizontally across the sky at speeds approaching 120 mph. His buddy was always just a little bit faster, so Maddox thought “it’d be fun to strap a jet engine to my chest and [...]
On the 6th March at 10:45am local time I jumped out of a helicopter from 2,800 feet. I opened my parachute after 1.5 seconds. We opened over the ocean and flew back to land on the beach where over 1000 Vietnamese locals looked on with interest. I jumped with Wendy Smith who happens to be the number [...]
A skydiving friend’s gear has gone missing. Please forward far and wide and keep a look out for any and all pieces.
Forwarded from Lauren:
My name is Lauren Demme and my gear bag that has all of my skydiving gear in it has disappeared. It is black with purple pinstripes from the Sunshine Factory, [...]
If you didn’t know already that Skydiver Network (setup by Omar – one of the Skydive Vietnam Load Organizers) was the place to be here’s another reason to go there..
Kevin Elvis King (one of our participants) has put a bunch of really cool photos from the Skydive Vietnam boogie (and those bad weather days) on [...]
This is from a very interesting article published on ArsTechnica..
[Researchers also found that geckos in windtunnels (pictured above) were able to control their decent and steer towards a solid surface using their tails. When on their stomachs, gliding in a pose similar to Superman's, the position "allowed them to use their tails to turn or [...]
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