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The
Dutch 100-way attempt scheduled for October 7-8 did not go as planned,
Herman Landsman reported.
The plan was to build a 100-way from two Air Force, but obstacles came in
the way. Read Herman Landsmans own report.• Hangout News
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Swedish
Speed RMMaria Sundesten and Nico Emanuelsson won the Swedish Speed Skydiving Riksmesterskap over Gryttjom DZ on October 2. Sundesten beat Linda Olssons Swedish Best jump Record with 369.99 km/h. Emanuelsson won with a new Swedish Meet Result Record of 409.21 km/h.
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Picture by James Cumberland (from left): Moa Kvarfordh, Maria Sundesten, Nico Emanuelsson, Anton Westman and Tommy Gustavsson. Pascal Gagneur was not present.
Thomas Franzén and Martin Bäcklin of Stockholm Parachute Club, finished 1st and 2nd in the Canopy Piloting contest at Jogersö near Oxelösund on September 11. The meet was organised by Nyköpings Fallskärmsklubb. Bäcklin ended up with being the first swede to break the 100 meter distance.
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Speed
World Cup 2004I finished third in the 2004 World Cup of Speed Skydiving, despite a no-score in the last competition of the year over Jumptown DZ in USA on August 27-29. Despite two good jumps, one at 437 km/h (about 272 mph) and one at 440 (about 273 mph), my OB spell continued and I ended up without a meet result yet again (see “4942-48” below). However, my results from France in May and England in June earned me the overall slot in 2004 behind Mark Calland of England and Arnold Hohenegger of Austria.
My logbook: 4949-54.
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Bäcklin
In Austria
The last weekend of August, Martin Bäcklin of
Stockholm Parachute Club, finished fifth in the MTV European Gold Cup of
swooping in Austria.
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On August 21, Jimmy Mathys from Belgium visited Stockholm Parachute Club to hold a briefing on Skytunnel, the mobile windtunnel project he is working on.
On August 1, the Lindberg-Hansen family returned home after a two week vacation on the Algarve coast in Portugal.
Vaccation
In Portugal
July 31. I'm leaving for Portugal today on a 2 week
vacation with the family. Will probably not be able to update the speed
page. One item that should've been published is that Arnold Hohenegger has
published pics from Gryttjom. Link to those pictures are below. I'll be
back on August 15.
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Hohenegger's Speed Pictures
007
Kaulanen
For
the opening show of the annual DN-Galan (athletics) in Stockholm on July
28, Micke Kaulanen tux'd up as Agent 007 and brought in the diamonds. The
diamonds are awards for athletes who set stadium records. But why is this
news on my page? Well, because Ann did a lot of the preparations for the
jump and stayed on the stands with Meija while I did the com work with the
plane on site, and picked up Micke's canopy and rig from the infield when
he loaded the display case with his precious cargo.
By the way, Thorkildsen of Norway won the Javelin contest. Yeah!
DN-Galan
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The
Swedish World Cup Event At Gryttjom
I finished last in the Speed Skydiving World Cup event over Gryttjom in
Sweden on July 23-25. Actually, I didn't even get a meet result, so
technically, I didn't even finish last. Anyway, I had good acceleration on
all jumps but lost the fine balanse towards the end of the measured
kilometer. The result was five OB's, one scoring jump and a nickname. I
got 437 km/h on the one scoring jump and OB 5 KENOBI for the five others.
I guess the g-force wasn't quite with me this time around. Nevertheless, I
had a good time with a bunch of fine skydivers. OB is a technical term in
speed skydiving and is short for "Out of Bounds". My Logbook:
4942-48.
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Nico Emanuelsson, Ken Hansen, Anton Westman and Dean Parkinson.
• Meija, Ann's and my daughter, was born on the 6th
of July.
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I finished 2nd at the Speed Skydiving World Cup event over Hibaldstow in
England on June 25-27. My meet result (3 best jumps) was 472.72 kph
(293.80 mph). That is the third best Speed Skydiving meet result, ever. On
my fastest jump I did 478.59 kph (297.45 mph). More>>>
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On June 6-9, I was one of 12 participants on the Gryttjom Swoop Camp, and
had a blast learning - at least theoretically - the tips and tricks of
"hook turning & swooping" from some of the masters of Pro
Swooping, Ian Bobo and Shannon Pilcher of the PD Factory Team.
4913 Micke Kaulanen's 2000th jump was celebrated with a 2 point 22-way over Gryttjom DZ on June 5, 2004, and beer in the sauna.
• June 1, 2004, was the 5 year celebration of this website under the name of "hangout", but I have run a site of sorts since January 1998.
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With a 3-jump meet result of 435.98 km/h, I finished second in the season
opener of the 2004 World Cup of Speed Skydiving over Lille in France on
May 28-30. My best jump was 443.47 kph. Read
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