Lyns Skydive for Sp I N I Spinal Injjuries Northern Ireland with Moonjumper, @ wild geese

Footage of Lyn Burns doing a Skydive for our charity 'Sp I N I Spinal Injjuries Northern Ireland

Sp.I.N.I. (Spinal Injury Northern Ireland) is a new and exciting charity which specialises in "post hospitalisation" rehabilitation for all ages. Our aim is to provide individuals with support in social care and use of equipment for spinal injuries in their own area.
Check out our site-
www.spini.co.uk

Sp.I.N.I. will help raise funds for equipment for people with disabilities in their own areas to be made available in public places such as health centres, leisure centres and sport complexes. Specialised equipment to be made available at local leisure centres. - (motomed viva2) Our aim is to provide services to help individuals with spinal injuries get back into a social environment and to adapt to life with a spinal cord injury
Skydive co-
Moonjumper International was founded in February 2001. Operating throughout mainland UK and Ireland, volunteers are asked to pay a £40 commitment fee payable to Moonjumper, then raise a minimum of £370 per person (not to include the £40 commitment fee) by donation from sponsors from work, family, friends, and social gatherings. The course fee is deducted from the amount and all the remaining monies will benefit the chosen charity fund. Skydiving will be an experience you will remember for the rest of your life. Located at Wild geese skydiving centre Garvagh
www.moonjumper.com

Tandem Skydive
Using a dual harness, the student exits the aircraft at 13,000ft attached to the instructor. You free-fall for 7000ft at which point the instructor opens the canopy and steers you both to the ground. This skydive is also suitable for disabled persons.

Peter Steele: Managing Director and founder of SpINI. Donna Mc Cormick: Sec & Public Affairs Officer Lucy Steele: Head of Administration Daniel O'Reilly: Services manager

Parachuting, or skydiving, is the action sport of exiting an aircraft and returning to Earth with the aid of gravity, then slowing down during the last part of the descent by using a parachute (or other means - in 2012, British stuntman Gary Connery used a wing suit and a specially prepared box landing rig for this[1]). It may or may not involve a certain amount of free-fall, a time during which the parachute has not been deployed and the body gradually accelerates to terminal velocity. The history of skydiving starts with Andre-Jacques Garnerin who made successful descents using a canvas canopy and small basket, tethered beneath a hot-air balloon. The first intentional freefall jump with a ripcord-operated deployment is credited to Leslie Irvin in 1919 ; however, the stunt jumper Georgina "Tiny" Broadwick claimed to have made earlier freefall jumps simply by cutting her static-line and manually pulling the remaining cord-end after falling away from the aircraft. The military developed parachuting technology as a way to save aircrews from emergencies aboard balloons and aircraft in flight, and later as a way of delivering soldiers to the battlefield. Early competitions date back to the 1930s, and it became an international sport in 1952.