Any one still collect parachutist, canpara, skydiver?

[2ndgensteinke 0]

Just seeing if any one still collects parachutists, skydiving mag or any of the old mags. I have a good collection but missing a couple things. Not many people are interested these days but if you are let’s talk, maybe we can help each other out 

Edited September 9, 2024 by 2ndgensteinke

[pchapman 279]

I have collected a big pile of old USPA Parachutist mags back into the 60s, with the help of Beatnik who has a much more complete collection (but isn't on this site much these days I think). But I'm not actively collecting; too much to skim through already and using up basement space!

The thing is, some organizations finally got their archives all digitized. Which is amazing; a huge job.

To refresh my own memory too:

The US "Skydiving" recently went online, back to their start in 1979. (https://skydivingmagazine.org/browse-issues/ )

The Brits have had their issues online for some time, right back to 1964 ("Sport Parachutist", "Skydive the Mag") (https://britishskydiving.org/magazine-archive/ )

Lesser collections:

In Canada ("Canpara") we only have the newly created digital issues, so from 2015+.  (https://www.cspa.ca/en/digital-issues )

For the USPA "Parachutist" I only know of an unofficial archive of covers. (and occasionally indexes and some other lesser known old skydive mag covers)  (http://manifestmaster.com/skydiver/index.html )

A very few old time "Parachutist" magazines have been uploaded in the Facebook Oldschool Skydiving forum, along with some other interesting odds & ends documents from the old days. For those who have joined that private group:  (https://www.facebook.com/groups/28649069239/files/ )

 

Anything I'm missing?

[andrewhilton 1]

I have a whole bunch of Skydiver (the 1959 through 1974 one) that are duplicate / surplus to me as I also have a full collection. Let me know what you need. Happy to see them go to the right home.

[eyahoo 2]

I kept all my Canpara's from the early years I was jumping, in the 1980's and 1990's. I have some of my mags from the 2000's, but not much.

I also kept all my SPCO newsletters. Back then the articles were very technical and informative. Some stuff is relevant even into present day. I don't see much of that quality technical knowledge written or passed on anymore. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place(s)?