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Pictures from 316 Way - Eloy

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Unofficial record. But still damn big.

Chris



But it was an official Guiness Book record. :)
Were you there flying?? I got an awesome picture of one of the fly-by's from Jason Peters (one of the camera men on the jump)

Tee

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Unofficial record. But still damn big.

Chris



But it was an official Guiness Book record. :)
Were you there flying?? I got an awesome picture of one of the fly-by's from Jason Peters (one of the camera men on the jump)

Tee


I don't want to take away from what we did in Eloy. Yes, I was one of the pilots. Otter B.

In 1998 we built a COMPLETE 259 person formation. Guiness did NOT recognize that as the record. They went with the FAI record 246 way. I feel for the people that were on that dive because it has pretty much been forgotten. The 297 "unofficial record" always over shadowed it even though it was not a complete formation. And not to take away from what the people on the 297 did. They showed us that a 300-way complete formation held for 3 seconds really was possible with the right people. It is an amazing accomplishment to do according to the rules set forth by the FAI.

Did Guiness say they were going to put the 316 in their book? I don't know. But they didn't put the complete 259 formation in there. So I wonder. But if they do put it in there I hope they put all of the jumpers names in there. They deserve it.
Chris Schindler
www.diverdriver.com
ATP/D-19012
FB #4125

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