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Tandem skydiving or tandem parachuting refers to a type of skydiving where a student skydiver is connected to an instructor via a harness. The instructor guides the student through the whole jump from exit through freefall, piloting the canopy, and landing. The student needs only minimal instruction before making a tandem jump with the ...
Tandem can also be used more generally to refer to any group of persons or objects working together, not necessarily in line. [1] The English word tandem derives from the Latin adverb tandem, meaning at length or finally. [2] It is a word play, using the Latin phrase (referring to time, not position) for English "at length, lengthwise". [3]
Bill Booth appears as a part of a waiver and introduction-to-skydiving video shown to first-time tandem students who jump with the Vector Tandem system. He acted as the seaplane pilot and bartender in the 1993 film The Firm, starring Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. He played a small role as a bearded skydiver in the 2000 feature film Cutaway
BASE jumping (/ b eɪ s /) is the recreational sport of jumping from fixed objects, using a parachute to descend to the ground. BASE is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: buildings , antennas (referring to radio masts ), spans ( bridges ) and earth ( cliffs ).
A ripcord is a part of a skydiving harness-container system; a handle attached to a steel cable ending in a closing pin.The pin keeps the container closed and keeps the spring-loaded pilot chute inside.
A first-of-its-kind College Football Playoff officially kicks off Friday at 8 p.m. ET with No. 9 Indiana taking the three-hour-plus drive north US-31 to Notre Dame Stadium looking to upset No. 3 ...
Finally, the name Nyx (meaning “night”), sits 41 percent higher than it did last year and will undoubtedly continue to skyrocket in 2025." Look up to these names for more celestial inspiration.
Military static line jump, from the rear of a C-130 Hercules Deployment bag and permanently sewn 15-foot (4.6 m) static line assembly from military field manual for static line parachuting. A static line is a fixed cord attached to a large, stable object. It is used to open parachutes automatically for paratroopers and novice parachutists.