Guest #1 January 30, 2003 The feature about Michel Fournier (Le Grand Saut) and Cheryl Stearns (Stratoquest) that was in the January issue of Popular Science is available online here. There are some shots of Stearns taken by Tom Sanders, but no pictures of Michel. mh"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sar911 0 #2 January 30, 2003 At 6 million plus for the jump, I'll never complain about $18 a jump. Do the math, thats 333,333 regular jumps, 1,111 log books, 16,600 jumps a year for the next 20 years, and lastly, 45 jumps a day 365 days a year Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trilete312 0 #3 January 30, 2003 OK, I just read the article and I am really confused about something. The article says that Stearns holds the records for most jumps in a single day at 352. WHAT?? That works out to 14.6 jumps an hour or 1 jump every 4 minutes and change. How did she do this? How do you jump, land, switch rigs, and get back to altitude to do this in under 5 minutes? Anyone know?----------- Ready, Set, Gooooooo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hooknswoop 19 #4 January 30, 2003 Lots of rigs, packers, support staff, and only going to 2k in a fast airplane. I think that # is somewhere around 500 now. Hook Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ernokaikkonen 0 #5 January 30, 2003 Here's one story: http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/05/20/sky.diving.record/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pilotdave 0 #6 January 30, 2003 I have the hard copy here. Want me to scan Fournier's picture? Dave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest #7 January 30, 2003 You can if you want to, but late last year I posted links to sites that had pictures of Fournier."The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LouDiamond 1 #8 January 30, 2003 QuoteOK, I just read the article and I am really confused about something. The article says that Stearns holds the records for most jumps in a single day at 352. WHAT?? That works out to 14.6 jumps an hour or 1 jump every 4 minutes and change. How did she do this? How do you jump, land, switch rigs, and get back to altitude to do this in under 5 minutes? Anyone know? If memory serves me correctly, she did this at the Raeford DZ a while back and she had a pretty good sized support team keeping her in the air."It's just skydiving..additional drama is not required" Some people dream about flying, I live my dream SKYMONKEY PUBLISHING Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
