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Xscape Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire) opened in July 2000 and is a major feature on the skyline of Central Milton Keynes as seen from the east. The front of the Xscape building is 44 metres high, [3] making it the second tallest building in Milton Keynes after Hotel La Tour on Marlborough Gate. [4]
Rosie Jones travels to Blackpool with Guz Khan.They visit a fortune teller, Rosie rides The Big One - the tallest roller coaster in the United Kingdom, they try indoor skydiving, have a Hip hop dance lesson, take part in a Ballroom dancing competition, Rosie auditions for a tribute act, and Rosie does the UK's highest skydive.
The first human to fly in a vertical wind tunnel was Jack Tiffany in 1964 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base located in Greene and Montgomery County, Ohio.. In 1982 Jean St-Germain, an inventor from Drummondville, Quebec, [2] sold a vertical wind tunnel concept to both Les Thompson and Marvin Kratter, both of whom went on to build their own wind tunnels.
Indoor skydiving is when a person "flies" in a vertical wind tunnel contained in a column. While protective gear for the whole body is needed, the practice is much more accessible than real skydiving.
Red Bull Racing use the remaining horizontal wind tunnel and Twinwoods Adventure use the vertical wind tunnel, previously the Vertical Spinning Tunnel (VST) for indoor skydiving. The VST was converted in 2005 by Bodyflight to be the first indoor skydiving wind tunnel in the UK, and at 16.4 ft in diameter remains the largest.
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Training in an indoor vertical wind tunnel Lise Hernandez Girouard competing in freestyle at the 1st FAI World Cup Indoor Championship in Austin Texas 2014.. Indoor freestyle skydiving, also known as skydancing, is another form of the sport, made possible since the development of vertical wind tunnels in 1964.