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2009 POPS Spring Fest, 29 March - 04 April 2009
Florida Skydiving Center,
Lake Wales, FL
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| Some of the participants gathered at the classic accuracy tuffet.
Photo by Russ Manhold.
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| Accuracy judges Karl Poruben and John Scott. Photo by Russ Manhold.
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An Accuracy Load.
Photo by Russ Manhold. |
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| First Place Scrambles team 'Blundering Buzzards'. Photo by Mary Ann Zukowski.
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Second Place Scrambles team 'Dem Bones'. Photo by Mary Ann Zukowski. |
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| Third Place Scrambles team 'Senior Moment'. Photo by Mary Ann Zukowski.
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Third Place Hit & Rock, Curtis Perkins. Photo by Mary Ann Zukowski. |
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| First Place Hit & Rock, James Harrison. Photo by Mary Ann Zukowski.
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Second Place Hit & Rock and Second Place Sport Accuracy, Mike Burns.
Photo by Mary Ann Zukowski. |
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| First Place Sport Accuracy, Ron McFarland. Photo by Mary Ann Zukowski.
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Second Place Classic Accuracy, Mike Goodin; DZO Betty Hill, and
First Place Classic Accuracy, Tom Zukowski. Photo by Mary Ann Zukowski. |
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| New hangar at Florida Skydiving Center. Photo by Russ Manhold. |
Col Joseph Kittinger, USAF retired, with Russ Manhold. Photo by Sherri Kittinger. |
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| Classic Accuracy competitor Mike Goodin. Photo by Russ Manhold. |
Strong Enterprises is manufacturing a one-of-a-kind parachute system,
i.e., main parachute, reserve, harness and container, to be used for a new
world record high-altitude freefall attempt. Strong Enterprises designed
the system to be worn over a full pressure suit for the next attempt at
breaking Col. Kittinger's world record freefall from 102,800 feet. Ted
Strong appears above, wearing the newly designed system with a chest-mounted
reserve, before making a test jump during the 2009 POPS SpringFest event.
Photo by Russ Manhold. |
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of planes and balloons is included. You might consider that peripheral interests are skydiving
equipment such as parachute canopies, rigs and harnesses, jump suits and alimeters, goggles
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part of the sport too, as is classical and sports accuracy.
The interest is not regional and has a world wide appeal, so it is of as
much interest to skydivers in Australia and New Zealand as to parachutists
in Europe and the USA. Age is no barrier, except that to join the Parachutists
Over Phorty societs you have to be older than forty and similarly with the
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