More than 20 years ago, Carl Boenish, the grandmaster of freefall-photography, has set standards, where today´s freefall-cameramen still measure their abilities. The professional and dynamic make of Carl´s films is still unreached. It is a must to see the courage, humor and ideas of the pioneers of our sport accompanied by Michael Lloyd´s original music and great fitting sound effects.

SKY DIVE!
This filmpoem represents a wide variety of skydiving including some of the first large canopy stacks, a 16-way snowflake, a 23-way star, the world´s first 50-man formation in freefall, a spectacular canopy opening out of the formation, a "hang load" with 11 skydivers climbing all over an aircraft in flight, a cliff-dive from El Capitan at Yosemite National Park, a 3-D-jump, lots of head-downs, student´s exits and parachute openings in slow motion.

WINGS
The US skydiving exhibition team organized and directed by B.J.Worth presents the birth of sequential relative work: 16 jumpers in color-coordinated jumpsuits demonstrate high precision aerial work miles above the Arizona desert. Furthermore, we see dirtdiving, a Chinook-exit, Twin Otter-exits, the art to enter a formation backwards, a 3-D-jump and a reserve canopy opening.

MASTERS OF THE SKY
The first RW-10-ways ever made during freefall filmed from unique camera angles above and beyond the formation, colorful smoke signals on the jumper´s legs, a skydiver towed on a rope behind the airplane, teddy bear jump, night jumps, 2-way freefall into an open round canopy, a formation in hot pants, parachuting above water and snow, a tree-landing, many spectacular landings with rounds (B-12/TU), high-performance rounds (Para-Commander), the triangle parachute Paradactyl and the first square parachutes ever built.

SKY CAPERS
This film is a showcase of assorted aerial gymnastics by individuals pioneering the early development of relative work. Lots of crashes and small formations, 2-way-backloop, orange jump, parachute towing, many funny landings in the round canopy era.

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