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Uploaded by on Oct 1, 2008

Early footage of the US Golden Knights parachute display team, filmed for a British news organisation.
How about the pilot chute hesitation for the second guy out -- and this is with twin MA1 pilot chutes!
Some nice accuracy approaches the old fashioned way.

1970s still photos of South Australian skydiving at http://www.skydivinghistory.blogspot.com

50 years of South Australian skydiving history at http://www.skydivinghistory.blogspot.com

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  • is that a two stage ripcord? looks like dbl pilot chutes.....or just afreaky malfunction?

  • @00Billy

    Twin pilot chutes -- common in those days and supposed to lessen the chances of a pilot chute hesitation. But that's what he had -- a very long hesitiation.

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  • I was like "ouch" all over the place, how in the world did that one guy stand that one up!? I wonder what his knees felt like - in the video he didn't buckle - but boy oh boy I was hoping to see a PLF somewhere.

  • THUD

  • I guess this is before they thought up the PLF... Lol.

  • gentle?

  • man i dnt think i would want to jump under any of those chutes give me a wizzard any day

  • Damn some of those landings looked hard...'cept that one guy that stood it up!

  • Excellent.

  • Gread old Parajumper Film....

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