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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]
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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.
In 1960, Springfield voters approved a $600,000 bond issue to build a new terminal, which opened in October 1964. This terminal was expanded multiple times in the following decades as passenger numbers grew at an accelerating rate. The airport was eventually renamed the Springfield-Branson National Airport.
In the United States, skydiving is a self-regulated sport, which means skydivers, in the US, voluntarily follow a set of basic safety requirements established by the U.S. Parachute Association. Federal requirements can be found in the Federal Aviation Regulations. Most of the regulations concern the aircraft, pilot and rules of flight.
Midwest National Air Center (ICAO: KGPH, FAA LID: GPH) is a public-use airport in Clay County, Missouri, United States. [1] The airport is located one nautical mile (1.85 km) north of the central business district of Mosby, [1] near Excelsior Springs. [2] [3] It is owned by the Clay County Commission [1] and was formerly known as Clay County ...
The target, known as "dead center" is a circle with a diameter of 2 centimeters (a little less than an inch). The disk measures the distance from the edge of the dead center circle to the point the disc is touched, in increments of 1 centimeter (0,01 meters). The accompanying picture shows the electronic disk with the yellow dead center.
4-way FS (Formation Skydiving) Breaking off from a formation before parachute deployment. DC-3 loading; plus 'dirt diving'; 1977. Formation skydiving is a skydiving event where multiple skydivers attach themselves to one another by grabbing each other's limbs or by the use of "grippers" on their jumpsuit while free falling through the sky.