airborne journalists

[jrodrod 3]

Came across this about former CNN'er Christiane Amanpour:
"parachuting into conflict areas"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_Amanpour

Wonder if news organizations train their correspondents to do that, and how common jumping into the story is today.

[airtwardo 7]

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Came across this about former CNN'er Christiane Amanpour:
"parachuting into conflict areas"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_Amanpour

Wonder if news organizations train their correspondents to do that, and how common jumping into the story is today.

Clickified

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[howardwhite 6]

Back in the day, a French photographer named Charles Bonnay attmpted to jump onto a hijacked ship. He had done other jumps and also is credited with a set of pictures in LIFE of people in feefall over Orange, MA - but they were all taken from the plane.

HW

[JohnRich 4]

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Came across this about former CNN'er Christiane Amanpour:
"parachuting into conflict areas"

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"Amanpour gained a reputation for being fearless during the Gulf and Bosnian wars from parachuting into conflict areas."

I wonder if those were tandems, or if she's a skydiver herself?

[anj4de 0]

Hello all

In 1968 French journalist Catherine Leroy participated in the only large scale combat jump of the Vietnam war when she jumped with the 173rd AB Brigade during operation "Junction City". According to reports she had to carry extra weights in order to not being blown away under the large T-10. Here some more infos and pictures...To my knowledge she was the first woman to make a combat jump with a military strike force...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Leroy
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..."And Leroy didn't just photograph the war from the sidelines. She jumped in feet first, literally. Thanks to a former boyfriend who taught her how to sky dive, in 1967 she was a licensed parachutist when she joined up with the 173rd Airborne Division and jumped along with them into a combat operation, becoming the only known accredited journalist – male or female – to jump into combat with American troops at war."...

cheers
Uwe

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

-Leonardo da Vinci

[jrodrod 3]

Great question about the tandem, didn't think of that.

I guess these days, news outlets are content with soliciting cell phone video from those remote events :)