Happy birthday Melanie!

Miss Melanie, of course, is one of Blue Skies Mag’s amazing contributors, and has been with us from the start. Inspirational, courageous, giving, loving, hilarious, and awesome, Melanie has helped our little magazine in more ways than we can count. We’ve heard from so many of you that her words impact your lives, too. So, join us in wishing this beautiful woman a great birthday and another fantastic year!

PS – Maybe a good birthday gift would be to like her Highcomms.com Facebook page ;)

PPS – We have a $5 reward for any information on how in hell #6 got so lucky.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

Kolla was at a boogie recently where she ran into one of our more popular models.

Veronica ♥ BSM

We’ve decided that this is one of the only freefall positions that breasts look good in. Just FYI.

Also, when I told Kolla I was thinking about not posting this because it happened a while ago, she said, “Is it ever too late for boobies?” Well, no, no it’s not.

LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
of
Ward William Hessig
#### xxxxxx Ct.
Ocoee, FL xxxxx

We'll miss you, Wardinator.

First, the boring legal shit.

1. Declaration
I would like this will and testament to be read aloud to anyone who wishes to hear. I would like this to be read by Coby Osborne who was one of my true best friends on this earth. Coby, I want you to read this as if it were coming out of my mouth with the same attitude, voice inflection, and everything. If anyone can do it, I know you can. Love you Foo!!!

2. Appointment of Executors
2.1. I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint Darick Bennett and Jacob Dipitire as as Executors, if they disagree on something best of 3 paper, rock, scissors wins or if these Executors are unable or unwilling to serve then I appoint Jackie DiPitrie as alternate Executor. Out of all of the people I consider friends these are the most trusting and responsible people I know and couldn’t think of anyone better to be executors of my will.

3. Bequests
3.1. I bequeath unto the persons named below, if he or she survives me by 30 (thirty) days, the following property:
Well to be honest, as I am writing this I don’t have a lot of shit in my possession. I have led a really eventful life and I have a million great stories that the majority of the world would never get to experience but not a lot of physical shit. But what I do have I bequeath to the following.
3.1.1 I bequeath my Iphone to David Bennett, because he asked me for it on facebook and he was one of the first selfish pricks to start claiming my shit before I was even dead. Thanks Knife, enjoy that fucking Iphone while I rot in the ground you bastard.
3.1.2 I bequeath all of my very offensive shirts that I love to wear to Darick Bennett, only with the exception that he must wear them all at least one time in public before he gives them away or destroys them. Except for the one that says “Clinch all you want, it’s still going in” I bequeath that one to Jackie Dipitrie with the same provisions that Darick must follow. Just do it you bastards, I’m dead and these are my dying wishes.
3.1.3 I bequeath my skydiving gear to Melanie Curtis aka “the MELSINORE” with the following provisions.
MELSINORE you may keep whatever you like but split the rest of it up as you see fit between Karl Meyer, Nick Grillett, Mark Kirschenbaum, Jonathon Tagle, Scott Roberts, and Isaiah Mccauliffe, in that order of choosing. The reason I put them in this order is because Karl, you proved that you are a real and decent friend at PIA that one year and I realized what a true and good friend you were. Nick I named you second because Karl won the coin flip as to which one of you went first. Trunky, I picked you third cause I love you Pal. Bizzle, yeah I called you Bizzle, I’m dead and I’m allowed to do that. I picked you fourth in line because you’re one of the few people that skydive that I actually like and respect, thanks for all the good times and memories Biz. Scott I picked you next because you also asked me for shit on Facebook and I never deny my friends things that I have the power to give them and yes I considered you a good friend. And Isaiah is last not because he wasn’t a great friend to me because he very much so was but because the prick quit skydiving a long time ago and I know he’ll just pawn it for golfing shit. I’ll never forget when you walked in on me that time and I said. “Hey Yoneral……Oh, it’s just the Yoneral”
3.1.4 I bequeath my smurf collection to Jimmy Lehr because he asked for it on facebook and I know he loves that damn collection. The only provision is that you have to line them all up around your bed as if they were watching you perform and bang a hot chick in my honor while she says, “Smurf the smurf out of me, you’re so smurfing big”
3.1.5 I bequeath my computer and all my computer stuff to Jeremy Bender. He was my best friend on this earth (well a tie between him and Darick) and the fucker’s never had a computer. Not only do I want him to have one but I know that he’s so computer illiterate he’ll never be able to find out what sick porn I looked at on it. Enjoy the new found world of the world wide web of porn.
3.1.6 I bequeath my Home Gym “nicknamed Marcy” to Joey Bennett, I know that meathead will finally use the damn thing, God knows I didn’t.
3.1.7 I bequeath my car to Darick Bennett or Jeremy Bender whoever has a child of their own making first with the provision that it is for them on their 16th birthday. I always wanted to be able to do that just didn’t want to have to do the whole relationship and having kids part of it so do that for me will ya? The race is on to knock a chick up if you haven’t already I guess, it’s worth a car. If neither of you have your own child before Princess, Andrew, Baisy, or the other one becomes 16, they get the car.
3.1.8 The remainder of my physical shit not spelled out above I bequeath to Jeremy Bender to do whatever he wants with. I know Darick won’t want any of my shit so it’s all yours bender, do what you want with it, just don’t be a fucking packrat, if you’re not going to use it give it to someone else.
3.1.9 It’s sad but that’s really all the physical stuff that I have to give away except for what money I’ve accumulated which is probably not much. Any money that is left after the party and my burial stuff, which will be spelled out later, I want given to my Dad if he is alive with the provision that every fucking cent be spent on him and given to no one else within our family. Sorry Kim, Tammy, and Kelley, I love you but Dad made me all that I am today and will forever be my hero and he deserves every cent.
If I haven’t published my book, I want my estate to pay to make sure it gets published with all residuals split between londyn if he’s still with whatsherface and likes the baby, princess, Andrew, baisy, and the other one, or any of daricks or benders real children
3.1.10 I wish I could bequeath my awesomeness, my ridiculously suave game, my arrogance, and all the other qualities that made you all love me to someone, God knows some of you need it but I can’t, I have to take it all with me to the next life to be a prick there.

5. Special Requests
Here is where we get to the fun stuff…

Buy issue #19 of Blue Skies Mag for the fun stuff

Folks, we have been informed by SkyGod that we have been severely lacking in the gratuitous nudity department as of late. We haven’t been doing full justice to our cover warning and for that we humbly apologize. BUT, we’d like to address the aforementioned egregious situation by actively soliciting your contributions. If you have any skydive-related boobie pics (we gotta keep it in context folks); have access to such; or better yet: are in the enviable position of being able to photographically record said subject matter, please send them to us for publication consideration (with the appropriate photographer credit and subject’s consent to publish). In the spirit of fairness we will also consider skin of the male variety (I have been democratically out-voted 2-to-1 on this subject by my fellow BSMag employees…) So, contributions can be sent to me at pierre[at]blueskiesmag.com (as Chief Dude Perspective it’s in my job description…) Please keep it [semi]decent as I live and share an IP address with two ladies (yup, WINNING!!)

Cheers!
~Pierre

I'll tell ya what we want, what we really really want