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The World Free Fall Convention (WFFC) was a skydiving event that was held annually from 1990 to 2006. From 1990 to 2001, it was held in Quincy, Illinois. From 2002 to 2006 it was held in Rantoul, Illinois. The event included various other categories of jump, such as sky surfing, raft jumping, and naked jumps.
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Downtown Airport covers an area of 160 acres (65 ha) and has one runway designated 11/29 with a 4,037 x 50 ft (1,230 x 15 m) asphalt surface.. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2020,, the airport had 14,700 aircraft operations, an average of 40 per day: 96% general aviation, 3% air taxi and 1% military.
The airport is home to the 2002, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2014 U.S. National Skydiving Championships and is set to host the 2024 Nationals. The resort hosted the 2016 World Championships of Skydiving - the largest skydiving event in the world. It is also home to World Vertical Formation and National Silver Formation Skydiving medalist teams. [10] [11]
Freestyle skydiving is a competitive skydiving discipline where one member of a two-person team performs acrobatic manoeuvres in free fall while the other one films the performance from a close distance using a helmet-mounted camera.
Each year approximately 500,000 people in the U.S. take the adventure of a lifetime and try skydiving. Washington is home to five drop zones, each hosting thousands of these tandem skydives per year.
The U.S. Military Free-Fall School (MFFS) is operated by the USASOC's John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (SWCS), 2nd Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne), 2nd Battalion, Company B at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) in Arizona, which is the USSOCOM proponent for military freefall.
Free flying is a skydiving discipline that began in the late 1980s, involving falling free in various vertical orientations, as opposed to the traditional "belly-to-earth" orientation. The discipline is known to have originated when Olav Zipser began experimenting with non-traditional forms of Body flight .