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Kitchen's Skyventure attracted the attention of Alan Metni, of the U.S. Skydiving team, Airspeed, after a training session there. They began working together to expand the business and in 2002 Kitchen sold to Metni the rights to the Skyventure business which was then rebranded as iFly. [11]
The first human to fly in a vertical wind tunnel was Jack Tiffany in 1964 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base located in Greene and Montgomery County, Ohio.. In 1982 Jean St-Germain, an inventor from Drummondville, Quebec, [2] sold a vertical wind tunnel concept to both Les Thompson and Marvin Kratter, both of whom went on to build their own wind tunnels.
2013 saw the introduction of a new wind tunnel application when Aerodium built the world's first tunnel suited for indoor BASE jumping at the “Sirius Sport Resort” in Finland. [11] Compared to other models, skydivers could now enter the wind tunnel from the ground or jump into it from a height of 15 meters, simulating jumping down from a ...
Indoor skydiving is when a person "flies" in a vertical wind tunnel contained in a column. While protective gear for the whole body is needed, the practice is much more accessible than real skydiving.
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.
Poh was introduced to indoor skydiving in 2010 when her mother was working on advertising for iFly Singapore, an indoor skydiving facility located at Sentosa, Singapore. [2] [3] Poh and her friend, Choo Yi Xuan would go on to represent Singapore in competitions internationally as Team Firefly Singapore. [4]
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The firm was established by Majid Al Futtaim in 1992 [1] and is best known as the owner of the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai and being the franchisee of French hypermarket chain Carrefour in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. In 2023, MAF had AED 34.5 billion in revenues and AED 2.7 billion in net profit. [14]