Here's a video made at Langar by Jack Tew, recently graduated from Staffs University. The skydiving footage was all provided by Swoop. The short was Winner of Fresh Film Awards Best Documentary at the BFI, South Bank London. It might take time to load, so bear with it...

 

It's Boogie 2 - and James Woods wins best geek!

30-way organised by Milko

Swoop over the 30 way...

...and the exit for it!

Freefly coach Leigh B-R in action

They also serve who only stand and point...

8 way group with Dave Lewis - front floater away nicely and
7 others in that blob! That's the way to do it!

Every freefly position you can think of!

Kate Burns organised group.

17 with Milko

9 with Fiona Birnie

13 with Phil Curtis

13 with Phil (arty version)

Freefly hand-holding!

Scott Calcraft

11-way with Kate Burns

16-way with Milko

Chasing Swoop!

What's Milko just said to Tiny, then?!?
 

 

 

British Championships Medal Winners!

Langar jumpers have made an excellent showing at the
2010 British National Skydiving Championships:

Team Ch4os gained a convincing gold medal in Rookie class,
11 points ahead of the second place team. L-R: Kate Medd, Marcus Beck,
Keiron O'Rourke, Pete McLaughlin, John Baggaley (camera)

Ch4os in close-up with fan:

In 'A' class, Full Stop were the Gold Medallists, with an even greater lead
of 19 points over the silver medallists! L-R: Kyle Price, Milko, Cath Anderson, Sian Stokes, Scott McKenzie (camera). Marcus replaced Martyn Score at the last minute when Martyn dislocated a shoulder in training just days before the competition.

Full Stop getting expensively wet...

No piccy, but Katie Woods won Gold in 'AAA' class with team Satori -
the UK team at the 2010 World Championships.

 

World Championships Medal Winners!

World Skydiving Championships 2010 Silver Medal freestyle team
Al and Pixie MacLeod-Hodgson - nice one guys!

Al and Pixie back at Langar and hard at work training for the British Nationals!

 

We finally got pictures from the Brian and Emma 'B' and 'E' dives:

Over 80 people attended the Brian and Emma weekend;
they are both greatly missed by all their friends and colleagues.

 

Chris C and Chris C to the rescue...
...just one fixed hazard on 400 acres of airfield. Ho, hum.
(Identity of culprit disguised to avoid embarrassment)

Anthony Pinnell RAPS static line jump

Tee for Two - Ally Milne with student Darren Edwards

 

Dave Lewis's 3000th skydive...

...as a tandem 'student' with Billy Payn, and in formation, too! Nice one!

People have commented that we don't show pictures of dives they were on - that's coz the cameraflyer(s) involved didn't give us any. We're always after nice pix from anybody who's got them
- just let us know what you've got!
Swoop always takes lots of piccies and gives us lots - so there are lots of his images; here's some more:

Dave Lewis's 3001st dive!

Matt Black (freefall camera with Dave Lewis this weekend) and
Tony D with his full camera setup on a Sky[Shot] helmet.

Kyle Price, Cath Anderson, Sian Stokes and Milko on their second training
jump of the year - watch out for team Full Stop at the British Nationals!

Full Stop at full pelt!

 

World Championships coming up in Russia!
And quite a few Langar skydivers taking part:

Husband and wife Freestyle Team Al and Pixie MacLeod-Hodgson

2-way Canopy Formation team Doug Preston, Gavin MacLeod
and cameraflyer Martin Robiette.
Maria Russell is also flying CF camera at the championships.

Doug and Gavin getting some final team training in!

Martin Reynolds is competing in Vertical Formation Skydiving with team Bad Lieutentants, and Katie Woods in 4-way Formation Skydiving with team Satori
(shame there's no gurning competition...)

Good luck to all the Brits in Russia!

 

Matt Sweeney has been competing in Canopy Piloting and has gained sixth places in both the Black Mountain meet in Belgium and the German Open, and 5th place in the British National competition.

Neil Doar clings onto Papa Sierra and Nick clings on to Chris. Don't ask.

Gareth Thomas checks what to do next,
and Tony D considers the advantages of being in a different aircraft...

The skydiving bits from the Sky Sports News HD advert were filmed at Langar by Tony Danbury. Billy Payn did the stunts and Milko set the whole thing up.

 

Here's the ad on YouTube:

 

 

 Billy also provided the camera for the job - have a look at the size of this(!):

There's some extra gizmology in the bag on Tone's chest, too!

 

Wot we did at the weekend:

It was almost Go Horizontal what with the wind and all,
but they did some good stuff:

 

Kris Moxnes joined us in organising for Go V
Scott Calcraft in background

Kris Moxnes well relaxed...

...and smiling!

Dave Lewis's 8-way team taking advantage of the Beech99

A natural soft-focus moment for Billy Payn's 12-way group

 

The one and only Swoop
- that there Gary Wainwright who takes all those photos for us!

 

Richard and Laura Head and Henry Chow did some great work with our teams over the weekend - thanks guys!

4-way team Chaos exit the Beech 99 nicely...

...and not so nicely (living up to the name, there)

Chaos over, and they made the most of 15,000 feet of altitude!

 

11th July 2010:

The Parachute Regiment Freefall Team the Red Devils about
to fly off in one of our Grand Caravans for a display jump

Stan Hopkins exits with Sian Stokes on his 1500th jump...

...and he's looking good at 78!

Chief Instructor Rich Wheatley about to land

Andrew Hilton's added three Rogallo-wing type canopies to his collection of historic parachutes - this one provided by the Red Devils,
who helped in the initial design

Bill Miller, our newest Instructor, provided Andrew with this one - apparently they open properly 4 times out of 5 (Bill says he jumped it 4 times!)

This Russian-made wing is a reserve! Andrew's planning to have his vintage collection available to jump using modern rigs and reserves
when he's finished the rigging work.

Chris Carroll sports his brand new custom Sky[shot] helmet setup
and Scott Calcraft tests a Sky[shot] with a Contour HD camera

Dean Catterson with AFF instructors Dave Morris and Milko...

...and very happy about it, too!

Scott Calcraft, Ally Milne and Martin 'Dangerpants' Reynolds

Dangerpants and Ally Milne

Dave Ruffell, Martine Howland, Wilma and Phil Curtis

26th - 27th June 2010

Happy Jumpers in one of our Grand Caravans D-FLOH

Hybrid Skydive! Photo by Gary Wainwright.

Hybrid Skydive - Photo by Gary Wainwright.

Tim Aucott performing. Photo by Gary Wainwright.

AFF Instructor Phil Curtis at work. Phil celebrated his 7000th jump with us this weekend! Photo by Gary Wainwright.

Pilot Dave Epton complete with Snorkel... Photo by Gary Wainwright.

Nick Robinson with Gareth the pilot in tow... Photo by Gary Wainwright.

Streamers!

Formation tandem flight!

Canopy Formation Team Training

Put it there...

...or there!

John Baggaley

Ash Tubman, Fran Sweeny in background

Chris Cook gets his shadow in

Martin Hopkins

Dave Grzeskowiak and student in a beautiful sky...

Fishy looking bunch - the duty camera team

 

Team Phobia, coached by Sparky Scott, trained for several days with us  - 12 lifts on a day with good weather, and all by themselves in the aircraft for many of them - so we've got plenty of room for more teams! Give us a call...

Phobia getting pulled over for speeding?

22-23 May

Cath Anderson's 200th jump

Chris Cook under canopy

Dave Grzeskowiak - PD to his friends (and anybody else who can't pronounce it!)

Steve Smith wingsuiting

Chris Cook and Fran Sweeney

Rich Beazley, Wes Guest tracking

Al Hodgson, Ally Milne, Chris Cook, Fran Sweeney

Neil Doar exits the Grand Caravan

Jack Johnson

15-16 May

Swoop's been playing with a Go Pro - on his foot!

--ooOoo--

Mostly tracking. ish.

And a bit of carving...

Rich Beazley

Some Chris Cookery

Annual face-pulling contest

 

Organised freefly with Axel

Dave Lewis and Billy Payn organised dives

Ross Lambert wingsuit flight

Billy Payn and dave Lewis organising

Tracking dives

Serious stuff, this skydiving!

Ross heads back to the airfield

Dave Lewis big-way

Ross Lambert under canopy

Organised Freefly 6-way

How to... ...and how not to!

Ryan Briddon

7-way group organised by Milko

Any way up you like!

Dedric Hourde swoops the flagpoles

Shiny Beech 99 exit - nice reflection in tail

Milko's Organised group

Sleeping on the job!

Milko's group

Wayne Glenn exits D-IEXE

Catch that relative wind!

Weed Stoodley

The aircraft on hand for the Boogie

Fran Sweeney, Wayne Glenn and Scott's hand

Wes Guest nails the front float slot!

Milko tries out the new Aerodyne canopy material

Mostly sit...

Vertical formation skydiving just before the weather stopped us

And don't forget - No Dogs!

 

25th April - Great weather, good start to the season!

Gareth Thomas lands D-FLOH - first post-volcano lift!

Meanwhile, Chris Smith gets the lawn mown...

Maciej Dabrowski's last DRP, and Georgie Marsh works on Cat 8

That's how to launch a six-way!

And make an eight-way out of it!

Headgear for the job in hand!

That's Swoop without cameras(!) in the middle

Martyn Score coaching 4-way

Nicole gets some sit coaching

That's what they mean by a toe-hold?

Nice pose!

 

18th - 19th April. 0 Lifts, 0 Descents, 1 Volcano

Pilot Dave Epton appropriately dressed for his "Ash Patrol" survey. Complete with ash covered car and respirator.

VA Advisory for Europe on 18th April Showing UK in area of contamination from Surface to 20,000ft

10th - 11th April. 57 Lifts, 760+ Descents

Full-frame fisheye shot of Milko and friends

Lots of varied freeflying - head-down this time

Summer skies! And warm; well, for one day, anyway...

 

Jean Clark at 80 years old - and fitter than many youngsters!

Lots of varied freeflying - 3-D tube games

Nice 8-way dives this weekend

Pooky reads the instructions for the next dive

Lots of varied freeflying - Pylon Racing

Bullet Freefly chief Al Hodgson

 

Easter Boogie - 24 Way Formation, London Bus and Keiron's 200th.

24-way - 2010's first two-aircraft dives this weekend!

Pilot Dave Epton brought his old Routmaster to play with on the windy day

Keiron O'Rourke's 200th jump...

...a nice 10-way dive!

 

Saturday 27th March - 4-way team training, Freefly organised groups.

4-way team training

Chris Cook, Tim Aucott, Wayne Glenn (in background)

More serious 4-way stuff

Tim Aucott holding hands with his mates!

 

Sunday 21st March - Two Caravans back at Langar!

 

Saturday 13th March - D-FBPS Returns! Complete with new engine!