Closure of a round-the-world CF trip By Henk Lunshof, Perris, 18 October 2019 After the exciting CFS exhibition jumps in China, from 10 to 13 October, and the successful World CF Sequential Record jumps on 16 and 17 October at Skydive Perris, the focus was transferred to the CF Night Record and the Path of …
By Henk Lunshof, Wednesday, October 16 Skydive Perris’ workers were completely stressed when they found the first CRW Dogs organising parachutes and preparing to skydive at 6am. Yes, it’s really true! These CRW jumpers do what they say! The staff’s plan to clean the packing area with a leaf blower, powered by a noisy gasoline …
Arriving and preparing for the CF Sequential and Night Record By Henk Lunshof, Perris Valley, 15 October 2019 Tense, excited, enthusiastic, anxious…43 CF jumpers have just travelled towards Perris, California full of all forms of emotion. There is good reason for this mix of emotions and the will to undertake this trip. In the face …
11 till 13 October, written by Henk Lunshof On Friday 11 October the CF World Team presented their special skills during the Air Sports Show, which was held in celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. We built the 16-way in a record time and it was complete by 6.500 ft …
Arrival and first practice day Today, all 21 members of the display team for Yaocheng have arrived at the Qiaojia Apartment Hotel; one Egyptian, one Australian, two South Americans, three Europeans, five Canadians and nine Americans. For me, the trip involved three flights, starting in Groningen at 01:00 on Monday morning and ending at 13:00 …
The 100-way world record will be honoured this year Taiyuan, 9 October 2019, Henk Lunshof. The CF World Team has members from all over the world who came together in 2003. Year after year the team trained in Australia, Europe and the United States and built many world records, 49-, 64-, 81- and then the …
CF Russia set a new European CF sequential Record! Post from Natalya Lapshina From 22-25 August the Russian CF Large Formation Team gathered at the Krutitsy DZ (in the Ryazan region) with the aim of building a 21-way Canopy Formation and performing two sequential formations, or more if possible. Denis Dononov the leader of the …
The European Record is official We are proud to announce that the FAI has ratified the following Class G (Parachuting) European record:Claim number: 18837 Sub-class : G-2 / Performance Records Category: General Group / Type: Largest Formation Records – Canopy FormationCourse/location: Teuge (Netherlands)Performance: 30 parachutists 2018 was a very exciting year for CF in Europe. On 26 August …
Dutch press opens with; ‘Best skydivers practice spectacular formation jump over Teuge’ SourceTEUGE – The best skydivers in the world are in the Netherlands this week to jump into Skydive Teuge’s jubilee week. The association has been in existence for 50 years. Especially for that milestone, they hope to make a spectacular formation jump with …
Over the ocean during the daytime and at night Spring Fling ’19 appeared to be CF’s largest gathering ever. 153 participants from all continents took part in this great event. 20 members of the crEUw team joined in, making up the biggest group of foreign representatives. Below is the story of one of those crEUw …
Good to know for everybody, The essential requirements to get a World- or Continental CF Record performance recognized by the FAI: Every performer participating in a record performance must have a valid FAI sporting license. That is only proven if that individual is listed in the FAI data base for the year concerned (FAI Sporting …
Teuge from September 13 – 16 From 13 till 16 September the European Canopy Formation (ECF) members will organize a record attempt at DZ Teuge in the Netherlands. 34 members from 11 different European countries have responded to this invitational event. All of the participators have been training big way formations during the 2018 season …
