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  2. Going skydiving? Here are five things to know before you jump

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    Every skydiving center, also known as a drop zone, is unique. The USPA encourages jumpers to shop around and even stop by and watch how a center operates before skydiving there.

  3. Pilot chute - Wikipedia

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    When the user pulls the ripcord, the container opens, allowing the pilot chute compressed inside and loaded with a large spring inside it to jump out. Spring-loaded pilot chutes are mainly used to deploy reserve parachutes. They are often also used to deploy the main parachute on skydiving students' parachute equipment.

  4. Skysurfing - Wikipedia

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    The boards used are generally smaller than actual surfboards, and look more like snowboards or large skateboards. Custom bindings attach the board to the feet, which is removable with the use of a 2-ring release system based on the common 3-ring release system used to cut away main parachutes. Skysurfing boards in different sizes, beginner - expert

  5. BASE jumping - Wikipedia

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    In the early days of BASE jumping, people used modified skydiving gear, such as by removing the deployment bag and slider, stowing the lines in a tail pocket, and fitting a large pilot chute. However, modified skydiving gear is then prone to kinds of malfunction that are rare in normal skydiving (such as "line-overs" and broken lines).

  6. Ripcord (skydiving) - Wikipedia

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    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. When the ripcord is pulled, the container is opened and the pilot chute is released, opening the parachute.

  7. Closing pin - Wikipedia

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    The closing pin passes through the closing loop [3] and in doing so, secures the main container of a skydiving rig, keeping the parachute from deploying prematurely. [4] When the pilot chute is thrown out by the skydiver and catches air, it pulls the closing pin from the closing loop and allows the main parachute to be released from the ...

  8. Wingsuit flying - Wikipedia

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    Wingsuit flyer over fields in the UK. Wingsuit flying (or wingsuiting) is the sport of skydiving using a webbing-sleeved jumpsuit called a wingsuit to add webbed area to the diver's body and generate increased lift, which allows extended air time by gliding flight rather than just free falling.

  9. Travel photographer Amanda Gallagher dies in horrific ...

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    The keen skydiver was rushed to a local hospital in extremely critical condition but died of her injuries, the outlet said. Gallagher owned a photography business, AG Photography, where she ...

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