Tag: parachute

I assume the history of parachuting is as bloody as many other branches of aviation. I just looked up the details, because I remember a guy jumping from the Eiffel Tower being the first recorded instance of someone using a …

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Ah! Skydiving! It was high on my list of potential hobbies, until I actually tried it. A few years ago, one of our dear readers invited me to a tandem jump (hi Charlie!). That’s one of the perks of drawing …

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This strip was made especially for the folks at the Para Club in Wiener Neustadt West (LOXN). It’s a place just a few kilometers south of where I live. They were friendy enough to take me on a tandem jump …

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You hear this line a lot from pilots. And I don’t mean “I’m a pilot”, but “Why jump out of a perfectly safe plane?”. Apparently, as I was already musing a couple of days ago, it seems that to pilots, …

Perfectly safe airplane Read More »

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