Auckland Skydivers Inc

FAI has received the following Class G (Parachuting) World record claims:
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Sub-class :G-1 (Competition Records)
Category: General
Group :  Formation Skydiving Records
Type of record : Longest sequence (4-Way)
Course/location : Menzelinsk (Russia)
Performance : 56 formations
Date :01.08.2010
Current record : 45 formations (14.10.2009)
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Claim number : 16074
Team: Russia
Members :  Mikhail KUSNETSOV (Russia), Vladimir PAVLENKO (Russia),
Sergey SHENIN (Russia), Oleg SHALAMYKHIN (Russia), Andrey SELIVERSTOV
(Russia)
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and
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Claim number : 16075
Team:  France
Members : to be advised
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as well as
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Claim number : 16076
Sub-class :G-1 (Competition Records)
Category: Female
Group :  Formation Skydiving Records
Type of record : Longest sequence (4-Way)
Course/location : Menzelinsk (Russia)
Performance : 47 formations
Team:
Members : to be advised
Date :02.08.2010
Current record : 30 formations (31.07.2005 – Team Airkix, UK)
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NOTE: The details shown above are provisional. When all the evidence required
has been received and checked, the exact figures will be established and
the record ratified (if appropriate).

Winners – 8th FAI World Artistic Skydiving Championships
Sport: Parachuting – Artistic Skydiving
Title: 8th FAI World Artistic Skydiving Championships
Type : World
Date:  31.07 – 06.08.2010
Location: Menzelinsk, Tatarstan (Russia)

Final Results :

Freestyle Skydiving
1st : France 1
2nd : UK 1
3rd : USA

Freefly
1st: USA 1
2nd: UK 1
3rd: USA 2

Winners – 14th FAI World Canopy Formation Parachuting Championships
Sport: Parachuting – Canopy Formation
Title: 14th FAI World Canopy Formation Parachuting Championships
Type : World
Date:  31.07 – 06.08.2010
Location: Menzelinsk, Tatarstan (Russia)

Final Results :

4-Way Sequential
1st : USA
2nd : Russia
3rd : France

4-Way Rotation
1st: Russia
2nd: France
3rd: Belarus

2-Way Sequential
1st: USA 2
2nd: Australia
3rd: Russia

Winners – 19th FAI World Formation Skydiving Championships
Sport: Parachuting – Formation Skydiving
Title: 19th FAI World Formation Skydiving Championships
Type : World
Date:  31.07 – 06.08.2010
Location: Menzelinsk, Tatarstan, Russia

Final Results :

4-Way Open
1st: France
2nd: USA
3rd: Russia

4-Way Women
1st: France
2nd: UK
3rd: USA

8-Way
1st: France
2nd: USA
3rd: Russia

VFS
1st: France
2nd: USA
3rd: UK

The full results can be found at the following address :
http://www.ipc-wcresults.org.uk/Menz_results.html

FAI has received the following Class G (Parachuting) World record claims*:

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Claim number : 16061
Sub-class :G-1 (Competition Records)
Category: General
Group :  Freeflying Records
Type of record : Longest sequence
Course/location : Menzelinsk (Russia)
Performance : 24 points
Team: USA1
Members :  Travis FIENHAGE (USA), Andy MALCHIODI (USA), Matthew LEWIS (USA)
Date :02.08.2010
Current record : 18 points (24.10.2008)
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and

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Claim number : 16063
Sub-class :G-1 (Competition Records)
Category: General
Group :  Canopy Formation Records
Type of record : Longest sequence 2-way (working time 60 sec)
Course/location : Menzelinsk (Russia)
Performance : 25 formations
Team: USA
Members :  Chris GAY (USA), Elizabeth GODWIN (USA), Mark GREGORY (USA)
Date :04.08.2010
Current record : 23 formations (21.07.2009 -  Team, ——————–)
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*The details shown above are provisional. When all the evidence required
has been received and checked, the exact figures will be established and
the record ratified (if appropriate).

Team,

Its been good fun at the DZ with about a dozen loads getting away last weekend, with POPS joining us on the weekend for some jumps and yarns.  This weekend  is looking to be a weekend of halves for jumping with the Saturday looking towards blue skies while the Sunday is looking quite iffy at this stage:

SAT Jul 31     Max 15°         Min 8°  Fine spells, northerlies developing
SUN Aug 1    Max 16°         Min 10°         Cloud increasing, chance of rain. Read the rest of this entry »

WHERE:  Whenuapai DZ 4 – corner of Punga & Karaka Rd’s,  Whenuapai

WHEN:  Saturday / Sunday (24th & 25th July)  this weekend Read the rest of this entry »

Team,

It’s been a great last few months and over 30 people have done their first-jump course with us and some of them have clocked up number 2 and 3 as well!  That is fantastic and congratulations to all of you and thanks to the ground and air teams for facilitating this jumping.  Last week was a cracker for weather during the week, Saturday was a bit iffy weather-wise but on the Sunday 7 loads got away.  This weekend we are having a second shot at hosting POPS (last time the weather closed in) and its looking like we will definitely be jumping and its forecasted that we will be welcoming the POPS crew with some classic Auckland weather:

SAT     Jul 24  Max 15°         Min 7°          Fine with a few showers. Southwesterlies.
SUN     Jul 25  Max 14°         Min 7°          Mainly fine. Southwest turning southeast. Read the rest of this entry »

Hi Team,

Last weekend turned on a couple of ‘clear and crisp’ days which were great for winter jumping.  We managed to get 7 loads away on the Saturday and another 2 loads on the Sunday.  Congrats to the 8 first time jumpers, nice effort, it will be great to see you back down at the club to get into the progression jumping, touch base with your club contacts to find out when instructors will be available for your next jump.  During the weekend, Ruan H also completed his 100th jump in the bare essentials, suffice to say, it can be a little chilly by the door !  These milestones are good to see as Adam W also hit the 100 mark the weekend before in fine style. Read the rest of this entry »

Hi all,

Good news !  

There WILL be jumping at Whenuapai tomorrow (Sunday 11th July ) from 10am. Read the rest of this entry »

Team,

Last weekend the weather really shone for the Saturday and we got three loads away and on Sunday, due to the weather, we unfortunately didn’t get off the ground.  As mentioned at times before, sometimes out of optimism I apply a bit of poetic license to the weather forecast but the rest of this week and the weekend needs none of that as at least the Saturday is looking to be clear blue blue skies:

SAT     Jul 10  Max 13°         Min 6°          Fine weather. Southeasterlies
SUN    Jul 11  Max 14°         Min 7°          Mainly fine, odd shower. Southeasterlies. Read the rest of this entry »

WHEN       Thursday 8th July – 7:00pm onwards
WHERE     NZ Aerosports, 46A Sussex Street, Grey Lynn -   Location map
 
Julien is a 24 year old French Aerodynamics Engineer and Skydiver. He has a Masters in Fluid Mechanics and a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering, and has been skydiving since 2006.
   
For the last 8 months Julien has been working at Aerosports using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to model the airflow around our canopies and explore the possible advantages of some
shapes and ideas. We’ve been building and testing prototypes like crazy recently… Bloody good fun!
 
The CFD software we are using allows us to literally see the direction, velocity and pressure of the air flowing around a canopy. Something you cant normally see. We thought you might find it
as interesting as we do… So…

On Thursday at Aerosports Julien’s giving the presentation he made at the APF conference about Canopy Aerodynamics and his work here.

You might learn something about how your canopy fly’s. You can meet Julien pick his brain, have a few drinks, see some testing footage and have a laugh at some of our dumb attempts to push the envelope…       

So come along for a beer, catch up with a few mates, and check out what we’ve been up too.
 
Everyone’s welcome so please pass it on.

Cheers !
Jyro

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