Category: Space News
Events (past and upcoming), safety tips, and more happenings around Skydive Spaceland.
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Skydive. Refer Friends. Make More Money to Skydive. REPEAT!
Want a few free skydives? Tell your friends to come skydive with us! Every single new tandem skydiver you send our way gets YOU $35 on your jump account! That’s a free skydive if you’re licensed, or $35 towards your next skydive if not! There are a few ways we can help you get the word out! Referral Link Send us an email to get an online link just for…
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New Landing Hazard at Spaceland Dallas
UPDATE (10/10/22): We now have a secure gate on our side to access this area (in the southwest corner, the one closest to the hangar). It’s still not ideal to land here for sure, but we should be able to get you out without too much trouble. We would still recommend avoiding this area when possible. Please be advised that one of the fields just west of our D and…
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Unlimited Jump Package Survival Guide (Dallas)
Welcome! We look forward to making ALL the jumps with you, ALL YEAR LONG!!! Here are a few tips about Skydive Spaceland Dallas that you might find useful if you are moving here from afar. Slots are limited each year, so… Get your unlimited jump package before it’s gone! Drop Zone Address/Contact Info, Mail/Shipping Skydive Spaceland Dallas 1039 Private Road 438 Whitewright, TX 75491 (903) 364-5103 manifestDFW@SkydiveSpaceland.com You can get…
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American Revolution Boogie 2018
Get ready for a whole lot of awesome skydiving July 6-8, 2018! Whether you’re a first-time jumper or you have thousands of jumps under your belt, you’ll have a blast at the annual American Revolution Boogie! We have extra aircraft (and we’re working on more), tons of organizers, a kick-butt fireworks show, and even trapeze artists! First-Time Skydivers This is an epic event, the biggest skydiver bash in Texas! (And…
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Dallas Super Cup 2017 Scores
Done!! Videos are FINALLY being posted…click on team’s final score to view all 6 rounds Click here to see FaceBook Event Page 4-Way FS AA Class Team Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Total Average Babes On Our Bellies 9 10 8 9 11 13 60 10 Dallas InterSpeediate 13 9 10 11 12 11 66 11 4-Way FS A Class Team Rd…
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Scott Latinis Joins Skydive Spaceland Team as Organizing and Events Director
Skydive Spaceland is thrilled to announce the full-time addition of longtime competitive skydiver Scott Latinis to the Skydive Spaceland team as Organizing and Events Director. “My parents will be so thrilled that I got a real job,” Latinis jokes. “But seriously, it’s a really great thing to be able to work in and give back to the sport we all love so much.” Latinis brings decades of high-level competitive formation…
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Skydive Spaceland Military Transition Program
At Skydive Spaceland, we love our active and retired military service men and women! We greatly appreciate your service to our country, and we’d like to welcome you to our training program to transition military-trained skydivers to the civilian skydiving world. This program is now available at all Skydive Spaceland locations—Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Ga.; Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas; San Marcos, Texas; and Clewiston, Fla. The Skydive Spaceland Military Transition program builds…
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Skydive Spaceland Brings World-Class Skydiving with Texas Hospitality to Atlanta on May 1
Rosharon, Texas (March 31, 2015)–Building on the strong success of two world-class skydiving centers near Houston, Texas, and Miami, Florida, Skydive Spaceland will open a third skydiving center near Atlanta on May 1. “This is such a beautiful farm property in the Appalachian foothills,” says owner Steve Boyd. “We’re super excited to bring our business here.” Boyd first opened Skydive Spaceland just south of Houston, Texas, in February of 2000,…
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Skydive Spaceland Owner Gives Back to our Military By Flying Wounded Veterans
Do you ever wonder what our pretty King Air with the in-flight door is up to? Spaceland’s owner Steve Boyd, Sr., has teamed with the Veterans Airlift Command (VAC) to provide free transportation in his King Air to our wounded veterans. So far, he has completed four missions including trips to North Carolina, Florida, and two to Colorado. The Colorado missions were extra special to Boyd, as he and co-captain Rabbitt Staib…
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Skydive Spaceland Hosts First Transitions 3-Way Speed Star Competition
On August 3, 2014, Skydive Spaceland added friendly competition to its Transitions program for recent graduates of any skydiving program. Skydivers with A licenses up to around 100 jumps enjoy free coaching from two available USPA Coaches/experienced jumpers every weekend. Also, during the first weekend of every month there is an event with additional mentors focused on a particular skill such as dive and dock, turns, and linked exits. August’s…
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Movement Dive Policies
Horizontal movement jumps are fun… free flowing… and inherently potentially much riskier than jumps that fall straight down. Any jump in which jumpers plan horizontal movement other than tracking for separation after breakoff requires good planning and execution to minimize the additional risks to everyone on the load. Above photo by Daniel Angulo! That responsibility is 100% the job of the organizer(s) doing movement jumps, and it should not be…
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Skydive Spaceland Transitions Events for Recent Grads
For recent skydiving graduates, there is often a no-man’s-land between the A license and getting on good dives. Skydive Spaceland-Houston has been turning that no-man’s land into free coaching central with its monthly Transitions events. On or near the first weekend of each month, organizers and coaches collaborate to provide free small-group coaching tailored to a particular skill, such as dive and dock, linked exits, and tracking. Future events will…
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Skydive Spaceland Introduces the Safety Stand
What if every drop zone posted their safety policies and daily notes conveniently in one location in the loading area for all jumpers, old and new, to browse and learn while waiting for aircraft? Check that box for Skydive Spaceland! We’ve just posted our own Safety Stand in the hangar, complete with information on: Basic safety guidelines Aircraft safety Camera jumps Tracking dives and who should/should not lead them Wingsuit…
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Steve Boyd Celebrates 40 Years of Skydiving
On April 28, Steve Boyd, owner of Skydive Spaceland just south of Houston, Texas, celebrated the 40th anniversary of his first skydive. With his entire family present at Skydive Spaceland, he chose to spend some time in the air with his two sons Eric and Stephen (who also help run the drop zone) and several of the Spaceland staff on a 12-person skydive. Boyd, whose first jump was a static-line…
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Skydive Spaceland Expands World-Class Skydiver Training Operations to South Florida Location
For the last 13 years, Skydive Spaceland has been training skydivers to a world-class standard at its private airfield just south of Houston, Texas. Spaceland has recently entered into a partnership with a skydiving center in south Florida to provide the same top-flight level of skydiving operations to jumpers in the Miami/Palm Beach/Fort Lauderdale/Fort Myers/Naples areas. The Florida location, formerly named Skydive Air Adventures and located in Clewiston, will be…
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Head-Down Big-Way Camps
On the weekend of August 31st/September 1st (Labor Day), Skydive Dallas will host a 2013 Texas Head-Down State Record camp to bust the previous 2010 record of 23. This year Skydive Spaceland is proud to host monthly head-down big-way camps in preparation for the event. Each month will be led by a different participant of the last Head-Down World Record 138-way formation in order to allow for the most diverse…
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Skydiver Training Tip: Cool Weather Gear
We may be in southern Texas, but the weather is definitely cooling down! Skydiving in wintertime brings a few challenges we don’t have in summer, namely how do we stay warm while staying safe? The heavy winter clothes you need to avoid frostbite can bite you in other ways, especially those big, bulky hoodies we love so much. Loose, floppy clothing can obstruct your handles if you jump without a…
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Skydiver Tip: Weather Watching
“What’s the weather like today? Is it good for students? What about experienced jumpers?” If we had a dollar for every time we got that phone call, text, or Facebook message, we’d all be retired. 🙂 And as you know, the answer is usually a variety of “You can’t jump if you’re not here.” In all seriousness though, weather and its nuances are critical to whether we can skydive or…
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Skydive Spaceland Welcomes the Supervan 900!
It’s back, bigger, better, faster, and with another blade on the prop! Our Cessna Grand Caravan recently returned from its Supervan 900 conversion and we are LOVING IT!!!! It’s not every drop zone that can call its Caravan the “fast plane” with everything else we have on the field. The Supervan is hauling jumpers to altitude fast enough to slide you to the tail if you’re not paying attention to…
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Recent Changes in Judging Procedures
Editor’s note: “From the Fishbowl” is a series of short articles by U.S. National Judge Randy Connell, and it is intended to educate competitors about commonly misunderstood or little-known rules of formation skydiving. References will often be made to the Skydiver’s Competition Manual (SCM). At the USPA Board Meeting in February, the USPA Competition Committee approved changes in some of the rules in the Skydiver’s Competition Manual (SCM) governing judging procedures…
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USPA B License Requirements Changing
As of January 1, 2012, the USPA B-license requirements will change for the first time in decades. In addition to the B-license application, a completed and signed USPA Canopy Piloting Proficiency Card will be required. More information from USPA…
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Free Money on Your Jump Account!
Want a few free skydives? Grab a bunch of the Skydive Spaceland referral business cards we just printed up and hand them out to prospective new jumpers at work, at social outings, or distribute them at local businesses; or send us an email to get an online code that can be used 24 hrs a day on our website! For every new tandem skydiver that brings us one of those…