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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on August 18, 2006. The length of the article is 934 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: FAA opens skydiving probe.(Government)(Two Creswell companies are using disputed land as a drop zone for parachutists)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: August 18, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: B1

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on October 19, 2009. The length of the article is 1211 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Creswell's unhappy landings.(City/Region)(A long dispute over the safety of skydiving causes trouble for the airport and the city government)
Author: Unavailable
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: October 19, 2009
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: A1

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This digital document is a journal article from Accident Analysis and Prevention, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Exact risk patterns in skydiving fatalities are not well known, but incomplete world injury data indicate that many are preventable. A comprehensive national material for Sweden of 37 skydiving fatalities 1964-2003 were reviewed to identify risk factors. In relation to jump volume, the period 1994-2003 had a fatality rate 11 times lower than 1964-1973. Student skydivers had the highest risk of fatal outcome, often caused by instability in freefall leading to unstable parachute activation with subsequent line entanglement, or parachute activation failure. Unintentional water landings also contributed to student fatality, with life jacket malfunctions, neglect to use life jackets, and automatic reserve parachute activation devices activated by water as aggravating factors. One-third of all fatalities had an inflated and operational parachute at some point prior to injury. A drastic worldwide increase in fatal landing incidents with fast wing parachutes during the 1990s did not occur in Sweden. Every fourth fatality caused by rapid deceleration against ground or water survived impact and died during transports or in hospitals. Rescue units and health care providers can improve management of skydiving incidents from knowledge about the incident and injury mechanisms we have described, and the skydiving community can target risk factors in preventive safety work. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on August 15, 2009. The length of the article is 643 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Creswell may miss FAA deadline.(City/Region)(The federal agency says lack of a skydiving safety agreement at the airport may jeopardize grant money)
Author: Unavailable
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: August 15, 2009
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: B11

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This digital document is an article from Saturday Evening Post, published by Saturday Evening Post Society on July 1, 2010. The length of the article is 1430 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: "I went skydiving at 84!".(THE GOOD LIFE: FIRSTHAND)(Viewpoint essay)
Author: Jean Pettit
Publication: Saturday Evening Post (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2010
Publisher: Saturday Evening Post Society
Volume: 282Issue: 4Page: 36(2)

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mag: CHIC... 12/77... Secret Life of Senator S. I. Hayakawa... Robert Altman's Hollywood Harum... Skydiving Sex... Close Encounters with UFO Freaks... ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on December 12, 2006. The length of the article is 1034 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Land use disagreements ground Creswell-based skydiving operations.(General News)(Two companies say they've lost thousands of dollars over drop zone permit requirements)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: December 12, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: A1

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Exterior Ballistics with Applications - Skydiving, Parachute Fall, Flying Fragments presents a modern approach to introduce the basics of exterior ballistics and its methods from the simple ideal model of projectile motion to the automatic solution of the differential equations of projectile flight using PC programs.
The book uses different approaches to solve the differential equations of projectile motion - among them the Siacci method and the numerical methods.
The results obtained through the integration of differential equations of projectile flight are mostly analytical formulas that describe the projectile trajectory and make the exterior ballistics a comprehensible science.
The Differential Equations of Projectile Flight are also integrated numerically using some original PC programs that can be easily modified to be used in similar scenarios or other new ones and give the reader the possibility to solve a great variety of Exterior Ballistics problem.

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Alan
I bought this book recently and I must say I am very dissapointed. As a professor of terminal ballistics, with extensive knowledge on exterior ballistics as well, I wanted to read mr. Klimi's book on exterior ballistics. When comparing, i.e. with "Modern Exterior Ballistics: The Launch and Flight Dynamics of Symmetric Projectiles", by Robert L. McCoy, it is clear that author don't have basic knowledge in real exterior ballistics and gives only brief explanation of SOME of the phenomena. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. It is surely better to pay 20$ extra and buy more advanced book than to buy this one. ... Read more

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This CD is full (650 Mb.) of current and important skydiving reference information, photographs and lots of video... INCLUDING:

Parachuting: The Skydiver's Handbook (First Edition for CD-ROM), by Dan Poynter and Mike Turoff. This 400 page electronic book, recently revised, from Dan Poynter's 7th edition has been a standard and a "must read" for all skydivers, both novice and expert. Fully searchable and hyperlinked.

The Best of Parachutist Magazine. Eighteen of their best articles that supplement the Skydiver's Handbook and bring a sense of the culture and character of skydiving today. The articles cover every aspect of the sport; equipment, training, statistics, National and World competitions; freefall formation, canopy formation, speed style and accuracy, Freestyle and skysurfing.

Special sections on: Freestyle by Tamara Koyn; aerial videography, by Brian Rogers; Fixed Object or BASE jumping by Nick Digiovanni and the US BASE Association; The Golden Knights; advanced RW training, by Craig Buxton and Danny Page of Skydive University... and a lot more. "Did I say that this disc was full?"

About 58 minutes of video on first jump training, AFF, freefall and canopy formation, parachute packing, malfunctions, vertical wind tunnels, BASE jumping and some great footage of Freestyle and Skysurfing (especially some never released footage of Rob Harris, by Joe Jennings). The video is narrated and set to all new original music. ... Read more

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Amendment to my previous review
The well known Skydiver and author Mr. Dan Poynter has purchased rights to this CD with which I had troubles on my own individual computer. I hear that it works fine on 99% of computers out there. Mr. Poynter guaranteesimmediate response if a purchaser has any trouble. The buyer can definitelytrust Mr. Poynter. He can be contacted at DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com

The CD won'd work
Mr. Morris says to contact him in literature accompanying the CD if the purchaser can't install the CD;but his e-mail or phone doesn't work. I returned the CD to his address but it no longer exists.The CD was returnedto me with "address unknown" How can I return this and get arefund? Please help. JT Guyer ... Read more

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An excellent handbook on skydiving with good text and pictures. ... Read more