August 2024 Newsletter

News

The summer season is in full swing and what an action-packed two months we’ve had. Falling For Fun with Big Bad Bradley Shelton has been a huge hit this year. Each event is getting more and more popular with skydivers who just want to go back to having good old fashioned fun in the sky! Keep an eye out on our page for more of this in the near future.

After a spell of bad luck with the weather for Ash Möhanty’s Load Organising, he finally got a great weekend out of a group of belly flyers over August. Ash is planning to host more FS groups so if you’re interested, keep an eye out on our Facebook events page.

The Multi-Plane Camp organised by Tom Dent and lead by Paul Milburn, Paul Wilcock and Jack Davies experienced testing conditions across a typically cloudy British summer weekend but plenty of jumps were completed. The event was aimed at progression toward larger scale multi-plane events so all those involved left with a better understanding of big-way action.

Our special mention this newsletter is for the latest edition to our fleet of aircraft… Bruce! The hangar team have been working hard on E-CMSP to give it a new ferocious great white shark paint job. For those who don’t know the reference, “Bruce” was the name Steven Spielberg gave to the mechanical shark whilst filming the 1975 classic film “Jaws” and the great white in the film “Finding Nemo” is also a homage to that.

Achievements

Congratulations to the Hib regulars who made the podium at the British Skydiving Artistic Nationals at Netheravon over August! Jack, Kristina and Logan of “Krusty Bread Loaf” won gold whilst James, Cameron and Andy of the “Hibaldstow Rangers” won bronze.

• A Licence – Dave Neal, Matthew Hewston-Ash, Luke Lamb & Chris Cox
• B Licence – Chris Owen, Paul Oxby & Roger Gilman
• C Licence – Kieran Jones, Pawel Wrona, Marek Pal & Izabella Lubowiecka
• FF1 – Jake Hard & Kieran Toher
• FF2 – Andy Bailey
• TR1 – Izabella Lubowiecka
• TR2 – Jake Hard
• FS1 – Roger Gilman, Valeria Varlashova & Jessica Wilson
• FS1+ – Chris Owen

Events

Just because summer is coming to an end doesn’t mean it’s the end of events at the dropzone! Here’s what to look forward to over September:

September

• 9th – 11th – Flight-1 Flocking with Pete Allum & Phil Webley
• 11th – 15th – Euro Big-Way with Jim Bradwell & Sian Stokes
• 20th – 22nd – TrackDayz