Parachuting
Parachuting, or skydiving, is a method of exiting an aircraft and returning to Earth with the aid of gravity, then slowing down during the last part of the descent by using a parachute. It may involve more or less free-fall, a time during which the parachute has not been deployed and the body gradually accelerates to terminal velocity.
Andre-Jacques Garnerin was the first to make successful descents using a canvas canopy from a small basket tethered beneath a hot-air balloon. The first intentional freefall jump with a ripcord-operated deployment is credited to Leslie Irvin in 1919.
The military developed parachuting technology as a way to save aircrews from emergencies aboard balloons and aircraft in flight, and later as a way of delivering soldiers to the battlefield. Early competitions date back to the 1930s, and it became an international sport in 1952.
Common Uses
Parachuting is performed as a recreational activity, a competitive sport, and is widely considered an extreme sport due to the risk involved. Modern militaries utilize parachuting for the deployment of airborne forces, and special operations forces commonly employ parachuting, especially free-fall parachuting, as a method of insertion. Occasionally forest firefighters, known as "smokejumpers" in the United States, use parachuting as a means of rapidly inserting themselves near forest fires in especially remote or otherwise inaccessible areas.
Skydiver (disambiguation)
A skydiver is a person who engages in the sport of parachuting.
It may also refer to:
Skydiver (ride)
The Skydiver is an amusement ride produced from 1965 to 1987 by Chance Rides, an American manufacturer based in Wichita, Kansas.
Skydiver cars are mounted on a circular frame – like a Ferris wheel – that spin on a front-back axis similar to a barrel roll. As the ride required two trailers to transport, it was less popular than the Zipper, a similar but smaller ride also manufactured by Chance Rides.
References
Podcasts:
Skydiver
ALBUMS
- Lounge Time, Volume 5 released: 2003
- Jazz Boutique 3 released: 2003
- Needle Damage released: 2003
- Techno Top 100, Volume 3 released: 2003
- Jazz Boutique 2: Sounds for the Urban Adventure released: 2002
- Kopfgeister 1991-2001 released: 2001
- Ministry Presents: Clubland Collective, Volume 02 released: 2000
- Rauschen released: 1992
- Cloudchase released: 1992
- Come In And Feel Fine released:
Techno Top 100, Volume 3
Released 2003- Always and Forever
- Genie
- The Fall
- Dreams in My Fantasy
- Velvet Dreams
- Make It Loud
- Plasma Fire
- Hi Tonight
- Time to Fly
- Party Time
- Hau Riem
- Get Up
- Lonely Raver
- Wild Side
- Brazil
- Some Bass
- Going To
- Hop'n'Pop
- Is This Hard Enough
- Bigger and Tougher
- Those DJ's
- Love Jam
- Let the Beat Control Your Body
- Progressive
- Nightmare
- Bretthaus
- Polish Drums
- Porn Nation
- I Feel Da Rhythm
- Reality (In My Brain)
- Electronic
- Ready to Block
- Under Pressure
- Overdrive
- Killa Bazz
- A New World
- Voices
- Devotion
- Liberation Day
- Oneness With the Universe
- This Way
- The End Of
- Surfers Paradise
- Back Home
- Iron Butterfly
- Go Burn a Fatty Ass
- Enjoy Music Control
- Black Hawk
- Der Nunte Schuss
- Fireworks
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ALBUMS
- Sensual Bedtime 3 released: 2003
- Nu Jazz, Volume 4 released: 2003
- Lounge Time 4 released: 2002
Nu Jazz, Volume 4
Released 2003- Transatlantic
- Tòcame
- Tengo Nada (Sporto Kantes mix)
- Funny Thing (feat. The Reverend Theodore Bone)
- Youe've Been Gone Too Long (Maria Ghoerls remix)
- Distractions (version Idjut)
- Make My World
- Nujazzkiller
- Vixen
- Chocolate & Cheese
- Someone's Soul
- Puma (Dublex Inc. rework)
- Naked Runner (Hard to take Apart #2)
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ALBUMS
- DJ Networx, Volume 17 released: 2003
- Octan, Volume 1 released: 1994
DJ Networx, Volume 17
Released 2003- Protect Your Ears (extended mix)
- The Frequency (DJ Dean remix)
- Highway to the Sky (Sven-R-G vs. Bass-T remix)
- Suck My…! (Ab 16 mix)
- Dissin You 200%
- Attenzione! (Brooklyn Bounce remix)
- Heaven Above (Krid P. vs. Future Breeze club remix)
- Airport (Essential DJ Team)
- 4 Just 1 Day (Derb remix)
- Dreaming
- Hardhouse Generation (DJ Dean remix)
- Voices
- Brunin'
- Witchcraft (club mix)
- Reflection (Lacargo remix)
- Locking on Target
- XTC
- Freedom (Hard clubmix)
- Question (Sandra Flyn mix)
- Hamburg Rulez (Hamburg Sued mix)
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ALBUMS
- Tales From the Backroom released: 1999
Skydiver
by: Daniel BooneWhen I saw you in the street
Brushing guys beneath your feet
I didn't think you were a nine to fiver
And when someone said that you
Simply came right out the blue
I wanted to fly with you skydiver
My, my, I'd love to see you fly
Down, down, till you hit the ground
Hey, hey, don't you fly away
Get it on down, down, down, skydiver
Oh, oh, don't say you're gonna go
Fly, fly, take me to the sky
Hey, hey, don't you run away
Get it on down, down, down, skydiver
When I saw the kick you got
Parking cars out on the lot
I didn't think you were a mustang driver
And I saw the way you do
and you did the things you do
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