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  2. Alan Metni - Wikipedia

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    IFly location in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. In 1999, Metni paid a visit to SkyVenture, an indoor skydiving facility located in Orlando, Florida . [ 24 ] Impressed with the facility, Metni proposed a business venture between himself and SkyVenture's owner Bill Kitchen , leading to the creation of IFly in 2002. [ 24 ]

  3. Bill Kitchen (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    In March 2011 Kitchen told the Orlando Sentinel: "I drew on a dinner napkin a picture of a ride which I thought would simulate skydiving without having to jump out of a perfectly good airplane." [ 1 ] Kitchen and Bird subsequently filed the initial patent for this ride on August 19, 1992 [ 5 ] and the first "Skycoaster" was permanently ...

  4. How Indoor Skydiving Helped Kids With Special Needs - AOL

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  5. Indoor freestyle skydiving - Wikipedia

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    Indoor freestyle skydiving, also known as skydancing, is another form of the sport, made possible since the development of vertical wind tunnels in 1964. Amy Watson was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records at age 11 by completing 44 360-degree horizontal spins in one minute.

  6. Bodyflight - Wikipedia

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    In the windtunnel sport parachuting and skydiving, bodyflight is performed by applying air flow on certain parts of a body, to control the body any muscular forces can be used. [ 1 ] As a tool for learning to control the body flight, there is a vertical wind tunnel , which makes it possible to fly in the air, simulating free fall due to the ...

  7. Indoor skydiving - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 21 November 2022, at 09:16 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  8. Parachuting - Wikipedia

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    For human skydiving, there is often a phase of free fall (the skydiving segment), where the parachute has not yet been deployed and the body gradually accelerates to terminal velocity. In cargo parachuting, the parachute descent may begin immediately, such as a parachute-airdrop in the lower atmosphere of Earth, or it may be significantly delayed.

  9. World Cup of Indoor Skydiving - Wikipedia

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    World Cup of Indoor Skydiving is a biennial indoor skydiving competition organised by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. Editions. Year Date City 1st: