Formation skydiving

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

Formation skydiving is the art of building formations in freefall with multiple people gripping each others' limbs or specially built "grippers" on their jumpsuits.

Formation skydiving can be further divided into several sub-categories, so named for the number of members in a team:

  • 4-way sequential
  • 4-way vertical sequential
  • 8-way sequential
  • 16-way sequential
  • 10-way speed
  • Large formations

The current FAI world record for largest freefall formation is a 400-way, set on February 8, 2006 in Udon Thani, Thailand. It was held for 4.25 seconds. They used five C-130 Hercules airplanes and exited from an altitude of 25,000 feeet.

This air sports-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../f/o/r/Formation_skydiving.html"