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When a neighbor informed Piantanida's parents of this, Piantanida tested the next parachute himself, jumping off a lower roof and breaking his arm. As he grew older, he took up skydiving with a "dogged determination", according to his brother. [5] As a young man, Piantanida played basketball in East Coast leagues.
The airport was home to the "Sky's The Limit" Skydiving Center, which operated six days a week (Wednesday to Monday) from April through November. The center regularly used a twin-turboprop de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter, a turboprop-powered Cessna 208 Caravan, and a piston-powered Cessna 182 Skylane — all configured for skydiving operations.
James Franklin Oldham, better known as Jim O'Brien (November 20, 1939 – September 25, 1983), was an American newscaster. He was a member of the WPVI-TV Channel 6 Action News team, which became the highest-rated television news team in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley region during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Victoria Cilliers' parachute failed during a 4,000-foot jump in 2015
After 14 weeks in a hospital and nearly a year of rehab, here's how Jason Dennen built up his strength, stamina, and mental energy to finish a triathlon. This Guy Broke 20 Bones in a Skydiving ...
He filed the first version of this patent as a "Skydiving Trainer Windtunnel" that year. [6] Kitchen then hired an engineer named Michael Palmer to assist him in refining his concept and in 1998, after licensing the Skycoaster business, filed an improved patent [ 10 ] that represented the first proof of concept and prototype Skyventure location ...
The Johnstown Inclined Plane is a 896.5-foot (273.3 m) funicular in Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, U.S.The incline and its two stations connect the city of Johnstown, situated in a valley at the confluence of the Stonycreek and the Little Conemaugh rivers, to the borough of Westmont on Yoder Hill.