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• Skydive - UK! (A portal site for skydiving in the UK)
  Skydive - UK! was first established in the early 1990's during the infancy of the WWW to provide a portal for information relating to skydiving and parachuting in the UK.
  
  
• Skydive - UK! - Articles
  Skydive - UK! presents a selection of free to republish general articles found on the World Wide Web about different aspects of skydiving and parachuting.
  
  
  • Skydive - UK! - Articles - Parachutes And Who Made The First Parachute Jump
    Skydive - UK! explains who made the first recorded parachute jump. And of possibly more importance, what made them do it?
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Articles - Why Do People Skydive?
    Skydive - UK! asks what makes people skydive? Some say that anyone wanting to exit a perfectly servicable aiircraft must be crazy. So Crazy or Not?
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Articles - Parachute & Other Equipment
    Skydive - UK! provides a brief description of the main components and accessories used in a basic skydiving rig. All the parachute rigs that are used today by skydiving enthusiasts have six important parts. The main canopy is just the parachute itself. The drogue chute is a small parachute that is used by skydivers to open the main parachute. Skydivers have to throw out the drogue and when it catches the wind it will pull out the bridle, a piece of nylon webbing, then the bridle pulls out the main parachute. The reserve is also known as the second parachute. This second parachute is available for the safety of skydivers just in case the main parachute won't open for any reason. The container is attached to hold the main parachute and the second one in a very safe place.
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Articles - The Highest Skydive Measured By An Altimeter
    Skydive - UK! records that Joseph Kittinger set the record for the highest skydive in 1960. He jumped from an altitude of nearly 20 miles high
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Articles - Tandem Skydiving; Your First Parachute Jump
    Skydive - UK! presents a series of articles about making a Tandem skydive. A Tandem skydive is a simple way to experience the thrill of freefall. Part 1) Arrival & Sign-up for Your Tandem Skydive
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Articles - Tandem Skydiving; Your First Parachute Jump
    Skydive - UK! presents a series of articles about making a Tandem skydive. A Tandem skydive is a simple way to experience the thrill of freefall. Part 2) Preparation for Your Tandem Skydive
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Articles - Tandem Skydiving; Your First Parachute Jump
    Skydive - UK! presents a series of articles about making a Tandem skydive. A Tandem skydive is a simple way to experience the thrill of freefall. Part 3) The Skydiving Plane
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Articles - Tandem Skydiving; Your First Parachute Jump
    Skydive - UK! presents a series of articles about making a Tandem skydive. A Tandem skydive is a simple way to experience the thrill of freefall. Part 4) Tandem Skydive Freefall and Parachute Landing
    
    
• Skydive - UK! - Fiction
  Skydive - UK! presents a few pages of stories for you to enjoy. I hope the exploits of ZF; BJ & V&T raise a few laughs.
  
  
  • Skydive - UK! - Fiction - The Sodmore Aces Fly Again
    Skydive - UK! brings you the Sodmore Aces At Sodmore the flat expanse of grey, rain lashed WW2 concrete runway seemed to join with the equally grey low straggly sky, from which came the constant deluge of freezing rain, ably assisted by the wind, driving into the flimsy door of the ailing Parachute Club. The Club was housed in a black Nissen hut, condemned as structurally unsound years ago. decrepit but somehow forgotten by bureaucracy.
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Fiction - Big Jake's First Jump
    Skydive - UK! brings you the adventures of Big Jake One day me and Big Jake are cooling off with a gargle of the local brew, when Big Jake produces crumpled from his pocket a clip from the evening paper and pronounces as follows: 'Want to get high ?' says he, 'Try sport parachuting. Heh heh Barstids must be mad' B.J. seeing it at first thought it was an invite to a way out party hence the interest.
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Fiction - Big Jake's First Display
    Skydive - UK! brings you the adventures of Big Jake One day shortly after he has passed the two hundred jump level Big Jake states as follows : "Here am I knocking on a dee licence and not yet done a display". Now some folks on hearing this think privately to themselves that most everything B.J. does is a display of one kind or another but none ventures such ungracious thoughts aloud for fear of a kick up the atrium.
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Fiction - Big Jake's Revenge
    Skydive - UK! brings you the adventures of Big Jake One day prior to his untimely demise, Big Jake and I, his minder, are sitting on the grass at the dee zed consuming the remains of a half bottle of the brew and what B.J. laughingly refers to as owlshit sandwiches, but actually they are made from peanut butter. It is lunchtime
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Fiction - Big Jake At The Championships
    Skydive - UK! brings you the adventures of Big Jake Most times when I open my pee cee these days there is a rain of pea gravel on my helmet. The reason is that Big Jake has decided to enter the Bee Jays for the Accuracy Meet and is training us in a frenzy; fifteen jumps a day, no time to eat never mind clear gravel
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Fiction - Big Jake - Potential Instructor ?
    Skydive - UK! brings you the adventures of Big Jake "Potential Instructors Course ," Harry the Slime is heard to state gloomily. "Potential - - - - up if Big Jake is on it." Harry has reason to be worried. B.J. as is well known is a mortal enemy of Harry the Slime, who has conned his way by devious means into being one of the guys who conducts examinations for other guys, who for some crazy reason want to become instructors. Big Jake's reason is neither crazy nor uncommon. He wants the free jumps and to see their faces as they go out the door; a laugh a lift.
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Fiction - Big Jake's Oil Rig Jump
    Skydive - UK! brings you the adventures of Big Jake B.J. is suffering from divine discontent one fine spring day, "I am - - - - ing bored," states he. Now those of you with experience of Big Jake, and I don't just mean the ladies, will realise that such a statement from him may well signal the onset of some deviation from the norm.
    
    
• Skydive - UK! - Poetry
  Skydive - UK! presents a few poems for you to enjoy. Most of these were emailed to me back in the mid 1990's.
  
  
  • Skydive - UK! - Poetry - Mortal Skygod
    Skydive - UK! presents poetry by Snuffy The hawk floats gently upon the sky, a winged predator who will kill in the blink of an eye. So pure and graceful to see, the skydiver falls fast as can be.
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Poetry - The Spot
    Skydive - UK! presents poetry by Snuffy Last out the door and ready to go, an eight way was spotting down through a cloud hole. We fly a star way down low, my dytter is wailing really got to go.
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Poetry - The Otter Pilot
    Skydive - UK! presents poetry by Snuffy Baggy old blue jeans, two hundred dollar sunshades and ripped up tennis shoes, boy our Otter pilot is thinking he's real cool.
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Poetry - Quincy Beauty
    Skydive - UK! presents poetry by Snuffy I stood there on the flight line at Quincy, my head throbbing from the beer last night my mouth not fitting very tight.
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Poetry - Mad Dog
    Skydive - UK! presents poetry by Snuffy Mad Dog was S&Ta back in 93, while I was just off student status but still couldn't stand up even on grass.
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Poetry - Missy
    Skydive - UK! presents poetry by Snuffy Like the sweet dew from the honey suckle vine, or the foggy mist of an early morning wine.
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Poetry - Man Small
    From the man that brought the world the wonderful pictorial books Skies Call 1,2 & 3, Skydive - UK! presents poetry by Andy Keech from Book 1 Man Small Why Fall Skies Call That's All
    
    
• Skydive - UK! - Funnies
  Skydive - UK! presents a few pages of 'funnies' for you to enjoy. I hope they raise a smile or two as you read through them.
  
  
  • Skydive - UK! - Funnies - You know you're a skydiver when...
    Skydive - UK! brings you some lighthearted skydiving pages You know you're a skydiver when... Most of these will be recognised traits of the seasoned skydiver. A few may be 'out of date' by now, but still gems.
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Funnies - You know you're an old time skydiver when ...
    Skydive - UK! brings you some lighthearted skydiving pages You know you're an old time skydiver when ... If you know most of these terms, you're a veritable dinosaur now and if you don't understand most of the terms, don't worry about it.
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Funnies - Are you a true SkyGod?
    Skydive - UK! brings you some lighthearted skydiving pages How do you become a true SkyGod ? Never admit to any error and always pin blame on the least experienced in the group. Don't take advice. understandable since a SkyGod knows it all.
    
    
  • Skydive - UK! - Funnies - My online logbook
    Skydive - UK! brings you some lighthearted skydiving pages A very early attempt using tables in HTML pages. Not very elegant and fairly pointless but a reminder of some great days in the sport.
    
    
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  • Headcorn
    http://www.headcornparachuteclub.co.uk/
    
    
  • Peterborough Parachute Centre
    
    
  • British Parachute Schools
    
    
  • Hinton Skydiving Centre
    
    
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  • Cornish Parachute Centre
    
    
  • Skydive UK Limited
    
    
  • The Freefall Experience
    
    
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  • Silver Stars
    
    
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  • London Parachute School
    
    
  • North London Parachute Centre
    
    
  • UK Parachuting
    
    
  • The Parachute Centre
    
    
  • Black Knights Parachute Centre
    
    
  • North West Parachute Centre
    
    
  • Target Skysports
    
    
  • British Skysports Bridlington
    
    
  • Peterlee Parachute Centre
    
    
  • Skydive St. Andrews
    
    
  • Paragon Skydiving
    
    
  • Skydive Strathallan
    
    
  • Wild Geese Parachute Centre
    
    
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