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Skydive Hibaldstow was the host of the National Championships each year and held a range of events which included the following: An annual 28-way formation skydiving sequential competition. This event has since ended after being run from 2005 to 2015. A drop zone formation skydiving bigway record attempt.
The death of Stephen Hilder, aged 20, occurred on 4 July 2003 at Hibaldstow Airfield, England, in an incident in which Hilder fell 4,000 metres (13,000 ft) to his death when, during a 3-person team skydive, both his main and reserve parachutes failed.
The Bad Lieutenants are a United Kingdom skydiving team started in 2006. They began as a freeflying team and competed at both national and international level until in 2006 and 2007. In 2008 they took a break due to Matthew O'Riordan's ACL injury, and in 2009 reformed with two new members as a vertical formation skydiving team.
A German skydiver attempting to set a world record with 221 other jumpers in Arizona is dead after officials say her parachute went off too late. Forty-six-year-old Diana Paris died after her main ...
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World's record for the most tandem parachute jumps in a 24-hour period is 403. This record was set at Skydive Hibaldstow on 10 July 2015, in memory of Stephen Sutton. [59] World's largest formation in free-fall at night: 1 November 2017 at Skydive Arizona in Eloy, Arizona (64 linked persons in freefall).
Ex-Bath Rugby player, Iestyn Lewis, jumped out a helicopter just below Mount Everest to raise money for charity. Former rugby player completes 24,000ft skydive clutching rugby ball Skip to main ...
Following the 50th anniversary of British Skydiving, an archive project was established to record and collect the history of the sport in the UK and of the Association. The association's name was changed to British Skydiving on 27 November 2019 to bring awareness of the sport to a greater audience.