Jack and Richey marked big skydiving mile posts recently with an 11 way skydive. It was Jack’s 100th skydive and Richey’s 1,000th skydive. What a amazing way to celebrate these great achievements. January provided an unusually warm, light wind, and clear day. As sunset approached the group began to form their plan and practice there exits out of the mock-up. The new PAC 750XL was the back drop for the effort which included Richey’s fellow members of the Silver Wings military demo team as well as friends of Jack’s. Well done guys! 
Skydive Atlanta located in Thomaston, GA has a great fun jumper group and has been in business for over 35 years.
This past week Skydive Atlanta’s new aircraft, a 2005 Pacific Aerospace 750XL, started it’s journey in the painting process. The engine was removed for some work and the aileron and elevator flight controls have been removed. Here you can see the old paint has been stripped off and it will soon get it’s base coat of white. 
The work is being performed in Mena, AR by the same company that last painted our former King Air, N55MG. That paint job turned out amazing so we can’t wait to see how this one will go. We are currently reviewing several different design options with our blue and yellow color scheme.
In the February issue of Parachutist magazine, Skydive Atlanta had a nice surprise as we have a photo featured in an article entitled “We’re Not Here For Tandems.” The article is an expose’ all about Team Blackstar, an all African-American skydiving group that met up at a boogie in 2014. The photo features Danielle Williams with Sam Kemokai walking back from the landing area at our 2014 Summer Boogie. They were regular weekly fun jumpers at Skydive Atlanta back in 2013/2014. It’s a great article to celebrate black history month and we are proud to be featured as part of it. Photo credit – Ro Asgari