Vol. 8 - May 2000 - English Edition	The Magazine from Skydive World

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© 2000 Monkey Claw Freefly Team   50 Years Of Freefall Skydiving Legend Lew Sanborn Lew Sanborn became the first person to celebrate 50 years of freefall skydiving on Sunday, April 16, at 2:00 p.m. The skydive took place at the Clinton Airport, in Clinton, North Carolina, the home of his first freefall skydive in 1950. Lew has skydived every year since.   For this historical day Lew returned to the place of his first freefall skydive in 1950. He and about 25 of his closest POPS [Parachutists over Phorty] friends met up with the Golden Knights U.S. Army Parachute Team in Raeford. From there, they flew in a DeHavilland Twin Otter to Clinton and jumped into the Clinton Sampson Airport. Then they turned around and did it again at P.K. Airpark in Raeford. This skydive marked Sanborn's 5,782nd jump, just three months before his 70th birthday.   The Golden Knights (formerly the Strategic Army Corps Parachute Team) were formed in 1959, the same year that Lew was issued the first D (or Master) license earned by performing 200 freefall skydives, including a minimum of four hours of freefall time. Today Lew (D-1) has logged more than 60 hours of freefall time. The Golden Knights were thrilled to participate in honoring Lew Sanborn. Lew's lifetime skydiving achievements began with his first static line jump in 1949 as a Private First Class. A year later, April 16, 1950, he performed his first freefall skydive. At that time in the history of skydiving, techni- ques for stable freefall were still in their infancy and considered experimental. Lew Sanborn As a pioneer in freefall maneuvers, Lew went on to devise the technique of freefall photography. Freefall-to-freefall photo- graphy is the filming of other skydivers in freefall using a helmet-mounted camera. He received an Academy Award nomination in 1960 for his freefall footage featured in the skydiving film "A Sport is Born". His work was also featured in a cover story in Sports Illustrated in 1961.   Lew went on to become the official freefall photographer for the 1962 CBS-televised Sixth World Parachuting Championships held at the dropzone he ran in Orange, Massachusetts. Freefall-to-freefall photography is still used today for all national and world competitions with hundreds of skydivers donning video helmets every day at skydiving centers around the world. Continued on Page 2        Last Update: May 24, 2000

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