Project 9A-ADV

 

It all started nine months ago in Norway, Notodden, when we made final inspection of our Cessna U206G that we are now using in our Skydiving Zadar operation. We were very happy with test flights and our search for airplane was great success.

Our search was long and very detailed all around the world. This particular model of U206G was very special and it already had all modifications installed that we needed for best possible climb rate, which is one of the most important performance factors for skydivers :). We had great time in Norway celebrating our success and soon as we returned to Zagreb, first thing we did was reservation of airplane registration for our bird 9A-ADV.

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Space skydiving or the power of marketing

Takeoff Briefing

Episode 2 

You might argue that its old news, but as I remember it, it wasn’t news at all. Considering the availability and promptness of social networks and the Internet in general, news is as just as old after a couple of hours as it is after 2 months. However, at least one of our two main characters today didn’t want to make the news in the first place.

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Aviation Top 10 in 2014

Takeoff Briefing

Episode 1

 

Although it was a turbulent year for flying, with aviation-related topics headlining the news more than a few times, the industry overcame the problems, set new records and trends, and took safety, economy and ecology to a higher level. Check out our Aviation Top 10 in 2014…

 

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Categories Air

History of skydiving

“During the last ten centuries, parachutes and skydiving have passed through three basic developmental stages. Lets go through short history of skydiving.”

Skydiving history

 

The earliest and the first stage in skydiving history occurred before ballon and aircraft, we can say even before before there was an actual need for it.

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