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Freeflying and is
Freeflying is a skydiving discipline which began in the late 1980s when Olav Zipser began experimenting with non-traditional forms of bodyflight.
Freeflying is also a form of skydiving using a variety of body positions, such as head-down or feet-to-earth, while still building formations with others.

Freeflying and into
Freeflying broke into the limelight in 1996 when the SSI Pro Tour added freeflying as a three person competitive discipline at the second televised event ( with Skysurfing ), part of ESPN's Destination Extreme series.

Freeflying and vertical
Freeflying can, and usually does, involve constant transitions in position and speeds, with vertical and horizontal orientations.

is and expansion
In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.
That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.
SBA loans, which may be made to small manufacturers, small business pools, wholesalers, retailers, service establishments and other small businesses ( when financing is not otherwise available to them on reasonable terms ), are to finance business construction, conversion, or expansion ; ;
The capital expansion programs of business firms involve multi-year budgeting and the same is true of country development programs.
The basic market for textiles is growing with the expansion of the population that began 20 years ago.
The drill press should be leveled and, depending on whether it is a bench or floor model, bolted securely to a sturdy bench or stand or screwed to the floor with lag or expansion screws.
One simple method of measuring the expansion of the heart is to tie a thin rubber tube, filled with mercury, around the heart and record the change in resistance as the tube is stretched.
The pressure within the ghetto causes the ghetto walls to expand, and this expansion is always violent.
Ex-Oriole Clint Courtney, now catching for the A's is all for the American League's 1961 expansion to the West Coast.
`` In view of the current expansion, which promises to be substantial '' he said the odds appear to favor rising interest rates in coming months, but `` there is reason to believe the change will not be as abrupt as in 1958 nor as severe as in late 1959 and 1960 ''.
Gradual, controlled expansion of the world's textile trade is what President Kennedy wants.
The Brønsted-Lowry definition is an expansion: an acid is a substance which can act as a proton donor.
Emigration to an uncivilized country leaves British nationality unaffected: indeed the right claimed by all states to follow with their authority their subjects so emigrating is one of the usual and recognized means of colonial expansion.
Specifically, in quantum mechanics, the state of an atom, i. e. an eigenstate of the atomic Hamiltonian, is approximated by an expansion ( see configuration interaction expansion and basis set ) into linear combinations of anti-symmetrized products ( Slater determinants ) of one-electron functions.
In contrast, free expansion is an isothermal process for an ideal gas.
For an adiabatic free expansion of an ideal gas, the gas is contained in an insulated container and then allowed to expand in a vacuum.
The site of the ruins is within the borders of this village, though the expansion of the Limassol tourist area has threatened the ruins: it is speculated that some of the hotels are on top of the Amathus necropolis.
* Pecos Bill is an American cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous tall tales of the Old West during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona.
A more recent development is the Atari 7800 expansion module developed by Legacy Engineering with a high scores save feature ( with compatible games ), additional RAM capabilities, as well as vastly improved sound capabilities using the POKEY and YM2151 sound chips.
For m ≥ 4, however, it grows much more quickly ; even A ( 4, 2 ) is about 2, and the decimal expansion of A ( 4, 3 ) is very large by any typical measure.

is and skydiving
The term is often used to refer to activities with some potential for physical danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing and or participating in extreme sports.
BASE jumping is significantly more dangerous than similar sports such as skydiving from aircraft, and is currently regarded by many as a fringe extreme sport or stunt.
* Emotional or physical risk-taking, where the risk-return ratio is not quantifiable ( e. g., skydiving, campaigning for political office, asking someone for a date, etc.
Anti-proverbs are common on T-shirts, such as " If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
Tecumseh is also home to Skydive Tecumseh one of the few turbine skydiving centers in the midwest and home to the largest formation skydive in Michigan history.
It is the only time in which Looney Tunes characters have shared screen time with their rivals at Disney ( producers of the film )— particularly in the scenes where Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse are skydiving, and when Daffy Duck and Donald Duck are performing their " Dueling Pianos " sequence.
While freeflying is a younger and more extreme addition to skydiving, it is becoming a popular event in competitions and world records.
It is now used for charter flights and for skydiving.
Sky surfing is a type of skydiving in which the skydiver wears a board attached to his or her feet and performs surfing-style aerobatics during freefall.
Freestyle skydiving is a balletic, mostly individual style which seeks to extend the sport beyond the traditional belly-to-earth flat position used by most skydivers who make formations with their bodies.
Nicholas Piantanida, while attempting to set a new skydiving jump record, is claimed to have reached 123, 800 feet ( 37. 73 km ) on February 2, 1966.
Chatteris Airfield is about north-northeast, which is mainly used for skydiving, and is the base of the North London Skydiving Centre.
Entertainment Weekly gave it a " B " rating and wrote, " The making-of docs ( at their best discussing Swayze's extracurricular skydiving — that really is him doing the Adios, amigo fall ) will leave you hanging.
Formation skydiving is the art of building formations in free-fall with multiple people gripping each other's limbs or specially built " grippers " on their jumpsuits.
A recent sub-category of formation skydiving is vertical formation skydiving ( VRW ).
Wagner stars as tennis pro Jaime Sommers who is nearly killed in a skydiving accident.

is and which
It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.
Let me pass over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same speed which made Mrs. Roebuck `` wonduh if the wahtahm speed limit '' ( 35 m.p.h. ) `` is still in ee-faket ''.
The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.
It is the last of the three tests of manhood which the women impose, to discover if a male is worthy of survival there.
It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.
`` I'd like to know just which it is that those guys don't understand, the liquor or automobiles ''.
The woman eyed the youth with the avidity a coin collector might display toward a rare doubloon which is not yet in his collection.
It is these other differences between North and South -- other, that is, than those which concern discrimination or social welfare -- which I chiefly discuss herein.
It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.
Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.
Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.
For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.
That is particularly true of sovereignty when it is applied to democratic societies, in which `` popular '' sovereignty is said to exist, and in federal nations, in which the jobs of government are split.

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