Gear and Physics
Typical number of parachutes a skydiver leaves the plane with.
What is 2?
This acronym stands for the national governing body of skydiving in the United States.
What is the USPA (United States Parachute Association)?
A skydiver who jumps out of an aircraft for the very first time strapped securely to an instructor is doing this.
What is a tandem jump?
In this 1991 action film starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, a crew of bank-robbing surfers are also avid skydivers.
What is Point Break?
This legendary Apollo 11 astronaut joined the faculty as an aerospace engineering professor at UC following his historic moon landing.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
This safety device deploys the reserve parachute automatically if a skydiver reaches a preset altitude and descent rate.
What is an Automatic Activation Device (AAD)?
This license level is the first standard solo skydiving license earned after completing a student progression program.
What is an A-License?
This term refers to the brightly colored textile indicator shaped like a windsock or streamer used to check ground wind direction.
What is a windsock (or streamer)?
Tom Cruise famously executed over 100 high-altitude, low-opening (HALO) jumps for this 2018 action blockbuster
What is Mission: Impossible – Fallout?
To make a "4-Way" or "5-Way" at Skyline, cooks add these specific ingredients on top of the standard chili and spaghetti.
What are beans and/or onions?
This standard piece of fabric is pulled to release the main canopy from the container in an emergency.
What is the cutaway handle (or ripcord, or three-ring release)?
According to safety rules, skydivers must maintain a minimum of this distance horizontally and vertically from cloud formations.
What are cloud clearance rules (e.g., 2,000 feet horizontally / 500 feet below)?
This specialized belly-flying discipline involves building geometric formations with other jumpers by gripping each other's limbs or jumpsuits.
What is formation skydiving (relative work (RW), or group sky diving?)
This legendary daredevil movie star held the world record for most television stunt jumps in the 1970s and early 1980s
Who is Evel Knievel? or Who is actor/stuntman Dar Robinson
This iconic pop-culture superhero headquarters was famously inspired by and modeled after the striking curved facade and dome of Cincinnati Union Terminal.
What is the Hall of Justice (Super Friends / Justice League)?
Skydivers use this handheld electronic device to track altitude and sound off warning beeps at specific deployment heights.
What is an altimeter (or audible altimeter)?
This specific USPA license is required before a skydiver can legally jump with a camera attached to their helmet.
What is a C-License?
This is the term for the notebook you carry around to track your jumps, signatures, and instructor briefings.
What is a logbook?
In the animated sitcom The Simpsons, Homer attempts to jump across this massive landmark on a skateboard, but Springfield later takes up skydiving as a hobby in other episodes
What is Springfield Gorge?
This famous 27th U.S. President and Chief Justice graduated from the UC College of Law in 1880 and later served as its dean.
Who is William Howard Taft?
This term describes the curved shape of a parachute wing that creates lift as air flows over it
What is an airfoil?
This mandatory briefing document outlines the operational rules, safety regulations, and recommendations published annually by the USPA.
What is the Skydiver's Information Manual (SIM)?
This slang term refers to landing off the designated landing area, often resulting in a long walk back across a field.
What is landing out?
This classic 1990 movie comedy features a character played by Burt Reynolds who runs a skydiving school called "Lucky's Drop Zone.
What is Mermaids?
This was the name of the very last known passenger pigeon in existence, who lived at the Cincinnati Zoo until her death in 1914.
Who is Martha?