This video is a record of the POPS UK 50th Anniversary 50-way European record attempt in September 2016 With grateful thanks to Les Cooper and POPS UK...Read More
The interview was conducted at Langar on 2nd July 2016 by Les Cooper (SOS 50). The SOS members featured are Niels Hanson, the founder of the British SOS, John Houghland who later played a part and Chr...Read More
On 27th April 1991 tandem instructor Mike Smith and student Richard Maynard exited a Skyvan over Sibson Airfield preceded by cameraman Ronnie O’Brien. The bridle wrapped itself around Mike’...Read More
This video featured in the Chairman’s Review at the 2014 BPA AGM With grateful thanks to Keith Fuller, Dick Gays, Bernard Green, Mark Miller, Jackie Smith, Blair Stent, Margaret & Lawrie St ...Read More
This film looks at the development of sport parachuting in the UK and the creation of the BPA Archive Project. With grateful thanks to Blair Stent....Read More
This video features the POPS 33-way record, 36-way record, practice jumps and 40-way record attempt at Langar on 9th and 10th September 2006...Read More
This video contains footage of the successful attempt, on 16 July 1999, to create a new British formation skydiving record of 100 jumpers With grateful thanks to Simon Ward...Read More
Footage of jumping at the North West Parachute Centre during the mid 1980s By kind permission of Brian’s widow Caro Laithwaite With grateful thanks to Brian Shaw...Read More
Footage of jumping at the North West Parachute Centre during the mid 1980s By kind permission of Brian’s widow Caro Laithwaite With grateful thanks to Brian Shaw...Read More
This video records some of the aircraft, including Concorde, appearing at the Aberdeen Airshow to celebrate fifty years of Aberdeen Airport in September 1984. It also includes the display jump by the ...Read More
Footage of the late Dick Gays’ amazing ParaShape canopies, including his ‘Wally’, ‘Olympic Rings’ and ‘VW’ creations. The ‘Olympic Rings’ canopy w...Read More
Despite early involvement in sport parachuting during the 1950s, the creation of the first sport parachute club in 1956 and the formation of the BPA in 1961, British Sport Parachuting still awaited it...Read More
Nostalgic footage from the North West Parachute Centre at Cark in the 1970s. Originally filmed by Brian Laithwaite and Graham Kirkman. Includes “The Big Step”, “Sport ParachutingR...Read More
Nostalgic footage from the North West Parachute Centre at Cark in the 1970s. Originally filmed by Brian Laithwaite and Graham Kirkman. Includes “The Big Step”, “Sport ParachutingR...Read More
Nostalgic footage from the North West Parachute Centre at Cark in the 1970s. Originally filmed by Brian Laithwaite and Graham Kirkman. Includes “The Big Step”, “Sport ParachutingR...Read More
Vintage footage of the RAF Falcons Parachute Display Team in 1971 as they visit RAF Sharjah in the Persian Gulf just before closure, Australia and Hong Kong including a night display jump into the Gov...Read More
Vintage footage of the seventh World Parachuting Championships held in Leutkirch West Germany 1964 With grateful thanks to Col. R. D. ‘Dare’ Wilson MBE, MC. British Parachute Association Chairman ...Read More
Vintage footage of the 1963 Adriatic Cup held in Portorož Yugoslavia With grateful thanks to Col. R. D. ‘Dare’ Wilson MBE, MC. British Parachute Association Chairman 1962-1966...Read More
Vintage footage of the 1962 World Parachuting Championships held in Orange Massachusetts USA. With grateful thanks to Col. R. D. ‘Dare’ Wilson MBE, MC. British Parachute Association Chairman 1962-...Read More
This video shows the first Scottish Parachuting Championships held in 1961 at Scone Airport near Perth. The visiting US Army Team and their plane flown in from Germany are evident as is the founder me...Read More
Vintage footage of the RAF Falcons Free Fall Team from the 1960s...Read More
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