Aloha,
Skydive Hawaii’s congratulations go the Richard Doppelmayer for making his 10,000th skydive! This milestone was reached on July 12, 2005 while Richard was jumping tandem. Jake Kilfoyle took photos of this jump. Richard’s first jump was on June 20, 1989 at Skydive Hawaii. Of his 10,000 jumps, 7,700 were tandem jumps, and some 500 were AFF jumps. Richard says “I couldn’t have done it all without Clint Clawson”.
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Congratulations also go to Blossom in manifest. She completed her 1,000th jump on June 16, 2005. Her first jump was made at Skydive Hawaii on December 26, 1998. Blossom has informed us of her intent to start making camera jumps. Blossom, wearing her helmet cam, is on the right of this photo of her 1,000th jump!
Max Mueller has returned to Dillingham Airfield from Germany. Max will have us all back in line before we all realize what’s happening to us.
The Return to Launch Party for the Space Shuttle Discovery was held on July 16. All the students, parents and educators enjoyed the Return to Launch Party in attendance. In addition to learning about the Shuttle from Larry Wiss, air and water bottle rockets were launched by each student.
The State of Hawaii, Department of Transportation, Airports Division has informed us that the proposed taxi way extension will be started in October. While there was some initial discussion of closing the drop zone for this work, it now appears that the drop zone will remain open during most, if not all, of this project.
Recent Freefall student graduates are:
James Forwood, July 30, 2005
Steven Ryan, June 4, 2005
Dirk Neugebauer who stayed at Skydive Hawaii in the Winter 94/95; 95/96 and 96/97 has advised us of his
intentions to bring a small group of Germans to Skydive Hawaii over the Christmas holidays.
We had some jumpers land off field last month. The landings made the owners of the property upset. We
would like to remind all jumpers to avoid landing in the 2 acre lots, which are about 1 mile East of the Polo
Field. Using the agricultural field across Farrington Hwy would be more politically correct.
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