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Skydive at Chambersburg. The United States Parachute Association (USPA) is a private sports governing body for the sport of skydiving in the United States. Its headquarters are located in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The USPA's roots go back to the National Parachute Riggers-Jumpers, Inc., which was formed in the 1930s.
Skydiving’s reputation as an extreme sport makes it a red flag for many insurers, despite its relatively low fatality rate of 0.27 deaths per 100,000 jumps in 2023.
Lancaster, the county seat, is 15 miles (24 km) east of Maytown via Routes 441 and 23. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Maytown has a total area of 3.7 square miles (9.5 km 2), of which 0.7 acres (2,999 m 2), or 0.03%, are water. [5] The community drains east and west to unnamed direct tributaries of the Susquehanna River.
In the United States, skydiving is a self-regulated sport, which means skydivers, in the US, voluntarily follow a set of basic safety requirements established by the U.S. Parachute Association. Federal requirements can be found in the Federal Aviation Regulations. Most of the regulations concern the aircraft, pilot and rules of flight.
Daniel Skarry, a 52-year-old from Oakland, apparently lost consciousness while skydiving, The Bee reported at the time. The News-Sentinel reported Skarry suffered a heart attack during the jump ...
Luke Aikins (born November 21, 1973) [1] is an American professional skydiver, BASE jumper, pilot, and aerial photographer.He is the first person to intentionally dive from mid-tropospheric altitude and land safely without a parachute or a wingsuit and the second skydiver to intentionally jump and safely land without using a parachute.
Good trackers can cover nearly as much ground as the distance they fall, approaching a glide ratio of 1:1. The fall rate of a skydiver in an efficient track is significantly lower than that of one falling in a traditional face-to-earth position; the former reaching speeds as low as 40 metres per second (90 mph), the latter averaging around the 54 m/s (120 mph) mark.