Santa uses RDS!
A damn sweet video, featuring the good boys from Jump4Heros, brightening the day of children whose parents are currently serving in Afghanistan. Santa unfortunately couldn’t bring their mom or dads home for the holidays, but at least he was able to give them a good show, hand out some presents and most importantly – deliver the children heartfelt letters from their parents.
A nice article showing a close-up of Santa’s swooping setup can be found here.
Polte
Team Polte is a brand new team from Finland. Team member Lauri says, “The concept of Polte is to have fun and fly free, and share it to the world by videos and photos. That’s how people can really see what Polte and skydiving is all about. Our future plans include competing and get more involved in different skydiving events around the world and arrange our own events in Finland. At the same time we offer services for companies to promote their products in form of videos, photos and stories.”
Team Polte: (l to r) Matti, Tuomas, and Lauri
• Lauri Aapro
• Tuomas Hulkkonen
• Matti Miilumäki
• Jonne Kuoksa
We can’t wait to see what comes out of Finland and Team Polte!
Our Contributors Are Awesome
You could be just as awesome.
Want to join them in the ranks of awesome people who write for us? Talk to me! Email me, Lara, at lara@blueskiesmag.com.
Filmed on location at Chicagoland Skydiving Center, featuring Dean Ricci, Melanie Curtis and Sydney Owen.
Photo by: Despair, Inc.
The Men of UPT
Darin, Louie, Blikkies, Greg and Pablito = UPT Rigging Studs
We stopped by the UPT rigging loft the other day and found not one, not two, but all FIVE of the hot UPT rigging geniuses! If you’ve ever wondered who was behind your Vector or Sigma, wonder no more. Now you can easily identify them, should you ever run into one at the drop zone. Say thanks and get them some cake – we hear they like that.
Search for Missing Skydiver Dave Brown Continues
Canadian born skydiver Dave Brown went missing last Wednesday, June 29th in Moab, Utah, where he had lived and work for the past couple of months. Despite friends and families mounting huge efforts online and through news and media, Dave has yet to be located.
Search and rescue efforts are being mounted, and even with many are volunteering their time and energy, the costs associated are considerable.
A PayPal account has been set up to help with the costs associated with combing the area on foot, in cars, using ATV’s, dogs, airplanes, powered parachutes etc. If you would like to contribute to the fund, you can do that via this PayPal link. If there are any issues with that link, you can tranfer funds via PayPal to erin@freekfly.com.
Dave’s friends and family extend their sincerest thanks for the outpouring of love and support and continue to hope and pray for a safe return. If you have any information about where Dave might be, please contact the Moab Police at (435) 259-8938.
Melsinore, Princess and Sweetass
Oh my!
Yes, these are our indescribably awesome contributors, whose words you read every month. We’ve finally set up an online shrine to them: Contributors here!
Now, finally, there is a centralized place to keep up with your favorite Blue Skies Mag writers and photographers. And then there’s SkyGod.
So, read their words, look at their pictures, buy their pictures, buy them beer, hug them, kiss them, do whatever local laws say is okay to do to them. But we promise you can’t love them more than we do!
PS – You’ll have to ask Sydney what exactly “Sweetass” means.
photo by uncleweed
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