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Ph.D Skydiving - Accelerated Free Fall (AFF), Skydive U and WARP courses at dropzones in California, Spain and the UK. For UK residents. Information, photos, prices.

British Parachute Association - Details of drop zones and how to take up sky diving from static line jumps to AFF and formation training, and all the latest news from the BPA.

Air Supply - Skydiving courses for beginners or experienced skydivers in the UK, Spain, and USA. Suppliers of equipment and accessories.

Kaleidoscope Skydiving - An outline into what is offered in the sport of skydiving. From displays to personal instruction. Managed by David Morris of Action Sports.

Skydive Ltd - Tandem and Advanced free fall courses. Operating from Sibson Airfield, Peterborough.

Skydive Magazine - Journal of the British Parachuting Association. Published by the BPA, bi-monthly to all members and subscribers.

Tandem Jump UK - Offers tandems, AFF, RAPS, and rounds at a selection of UK dropzones. Also information on organizing a charity jump.

Bridge Builders - Organizes tandems, AFF and static line jumps in the UK. Specializes in charity jumps. Also offers private jumps, corporate events and team building days.

National Parachute Services - Arranges skydiving and parachute training thoughout the UK. Tandems, RAPS and AFF. Information about jumping for charity. Photo gallery.

SkydiveNET - Online store to book jumps at various dropzones around the UK. Jump gift vouchers also available.

Skydive Circus - Offers skydives at several dropzones in the UK.

Winter Sun Skydiving - Skydiving courses for beginners, training in UK and Spain.

PointZero - Skydiving and parachute equipment sales and rigging services. Supplies canopy artwork, flags, and windblades. Offers AFF and tandem jumps, and advanced packing and rigging courses.

Airwaves International Skydiving School - Skydive training in the UK, France, Florida, and Corsica. Courses include AFF, RAPS, tandems, WARP, freefly, and RW team coaching.

Manchester Parachute School - Skdiving and parachute courses. Tandem skydives and ram air parachute static line courses for the first time jumper. Also accelerated freefall courses in the UK or Spain on a package holiday deal.

Active Skydiving - Specialises in arranging week long residential AFF courses in Spain and Florida. Can also arrange AFF, RAPS and tandem jumps at various dropzones around the UK.

Skydiving and Parachuting UK - Agency representing 15 clubs around the UK who provide AFF, static line and tandem jump services and training.

Paragon Skydiving - Drop zone in Perthshire Scotland. Experienced parachutists and complete beginners catered for. Gift vouchers available.

The Free-Fall Company - Skydiving Courses. AFF with National Skydiving Champions in the UK and Spain.

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver Skydiving Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Skydiving Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler Skydiving And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Skydiving Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle Skydiving When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Skydiving No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Skydiving Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw Skydiving "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Skydiving Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST Skydiving "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Skydiving "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Skydiving The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek Skydiving Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Skydiving The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson Skydiving The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Skydiving Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Skydiving "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison Skydiving "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Skydiving Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Skydiving Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. 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