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  2. Australian rappel - Wikipedia

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    Australian rappel demonstrated at a dam in Norway Climber performing Australian rappel on Orlando Power Station cooling towers in Soweto, South Africa. Australian abseiling (also known as Australian rappelling, Rap Jumping, Angel Jumping or deepelling) is the process of descending a fixed rope in a standing position while facing the ground.

  3. United States Army Air Assault School - Wikipedia

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    Students practice rappelling from a UH-60 Black Hawk during Air Assault School. The 3-day Phase Three (Rappelling Phase) includes instruction on basic ground and aircraft rappelling procedures: Tying of the hip-rappel seat (Swiss seat) Hook-up techniques; Lock-in procedures; Rappel with and without combat equipment; Belay procedures

  4. King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Centre - Wikipedia

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    The 8 story Commando Tower is also a platform for wall climbing, fast roping and rappelling. The electronic shooting ranges have provide for Moving Target Engagement and Falling Plates, Grouping and Zeroing, and Weapon Testing. Through a joint venture with American Company IPC, KASOTC opened the Falcon4 Simulation Center of Excellence.

  5. FS Hussain - Wikipedia

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    In 1956, several RPAF officers including FS Hussain were sent to the German Air Force Officer Training School at NATO's Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base. He was the first amongst them to go solo on a T-33 after two dual missions. [27] While there, he was once bored with elementary training and planned an aerobatic session with Sajad Haider. They ...

  6. Camp Hale - Wikipedia

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    Camp Hale was a U.S. Army training facility in the western United States, constructed in 1942 for what became the 10th Mountain Division.Located in central Colorado between Red Cliff and Leadville in the Eagle River Valley at an elevation of 9,238 feet (2,815 m), it was named for General Irving Hale.

  7. Abseiling - Wikipedia

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    Abseiling (/ ˈ æ b s eɪ l / AB-sayl or / ˈ ɑː p z aɪ l / AHP-zyle; from German abseilen 'to rope down'), also known as rappelling (/ ˈ r æ p ɛ l / RAP-pell or / r ə ˈ p ɛ l / rə-PELL; from French rappeler 'to recall, to pull through'), is the controlled descent of a steep slope, such as a rock face, by moving down a rope.

  8. Front Sight Firearms Training Institute - Wikipedia

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    Front Sight Firearms Training Institute, also known as Front Sight and as Front Sight Resorts, was founded in 1996 by Dr Ignatius Piazza.. Piazza, a California native and former chiropractor, and himself one of the few graduates of the Four Weapons Combat Master program developed by notable firearms instructor and writer Chuck Taylor, spent 25 years developing hundreds of acres of desert into ...

  9. Aerobatic maneuver - Wikipedia

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    The pilot will be inverted (upside down) at the top of the loop. A loop can also be performed by rolling inverted and making the same maneuver but diving towards the ground. It can be visualized as making a loop of ribbon, hence the name it is given (there is an animation depicting a loop on the bottom of this page).