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Chris Schindler
7,500 hours total time flying. 3,000 hours flying skydivers. Flew as lead pilot for the World Record 246-way 12 aircraft formation  at Skydive Chicago, Ottawa, IL July 1998 and was responsible for spotting the loads. Flew as left wing pilot on Airspeed 300-Way at Eloy, AZ December, 2002. Graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 1992 and is currently a captain on the CL-65 (CanadAir Regional Jet).

Christy West
0 hours flight time, occasional right seat ornament, several hours of freefall, Accelerated Freefall Jumpmaster, Women's World Record (118-way) holder, silver medalist in 10-way (going for gold this year :-), editor by trade, web site designer.

John Kallend, BS, PhD
John received his bachelor's degree (1967) and PhD (1971) from the University of Cambridge(England). His college was Trinity Hall. After post-doctoral work at Cambridge and UC Berkeley, he joined the IIT faculty in 1978. He is a skydiver in the Chicago, IL area.

Associate Dean, Armour College of Engineering, 1989 - 91
Chair, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, 1991-95
Dean, Undergraduate College, 1995 - 99

He is an affiliate at Los Alamos National Laboratory and at Argonne National Laboratory.

Philip Artweger
2 years of Ops, about 600TT and 1800 Flights roughly.... plus 17 years of operation at pink aviation

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