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Presented for the first time at this year's National Championships in Richmond, IN was this newest of USPA perpetual trophies—the Eight-Way Team Championship Award. Carlos do carmo biografia. Design and Production, Inc.—craftsmen associated with the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC created this trophy, an octagonal block of anodized aluminum and lucite standing on a mahogany base banded with removable silver plates on which the names of the members of the winning teams will be engraved each year.

Up for your consideration is a NIB Midwest Super Stearman kit (1/6th scale I believe). Only been opened a couple of times to look at the plans. Contents have never been disturbed.

28 inches high, it is the largest trophy in USPA's collection and is valued at more than $2,400. It is on permanent display at USPA headquarters in Washington, DC. Official National Championships photographer Haney Martin caught 1980's new Individual Champions Matt O'Gwynn and Cheryl Stearns as each was presented with medals and trophies: Matt holds the 'Big Shot Glass', emblem of men's supremacy and Cheryl the sterling silver-and-crystal women's championship award.

The presentations were made at the individual awards banquet in Richmond, IN, on June 30th. Both O'Gwynn and Stearns are now training with the 1980 U.S. Team, preparing for the World Championships in Bulgaria later this month.

'Butch' Thorne, a free-lance graphic speciatlist from Washington, D.C. Created this month's cover design to symbolize the long history of the Parachtue Club of America and its successor, today's United States Parachute Association. PCA's emblem—the 'triangle' so familiar to old-time jumpers—was based on a sketch found in the notebook of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), who visualized a way to get man down out of the sky before man had learned to get up. Da Vinci neither built nor tested his design. Surrounded by a freefall formation is today's familiar USPA wings emblem.

Artist Thorne, 36, also designed the very popular 1980 and 1981 National Championships emblems—all without ever making a jump himself. 'And I have no plans, either,' he says. Artist Paul Bond is a skydiver and commercial artist in Des Plaines, IL. He first envisioned this 12-way 'planet' after seeing films on TV of the first 50-way at Elsinore, CA. Bond has spent much free time since then drafting, sketching and painting this artwork, an appropriate symbol of skydiving in the decade to come. He feels this dive 'is the next logical step in freefall formations,' and adds 'I hope people have fun trying to figure out how to do this one in freefall.'

For related story see page 19. 'Diver' Dan Gonzales displays the typical reaction to the typical pie facial after his 1,000th jump at Pacific Parachute Center in Sheridan, OR. The 1,000-jump load was a 16-way Jewel, with Diver Dan backing the 16th. Pictures at left are participants on the load: left to right kneeling—Paul (Rastus) Siemienczuk, Terry Kowing, Randy Kerr, Mike Milota and Tim Davies; left to right standing—Diver Dan, Terry (Bonz) Dean, Nancy Smith, Mike (Michigan) Sandberg, Marty Scott, Steve Wells, Lance R. O'Mance, Sally Wenner, Larry (LDK) Kelley and Jack DeChristopher. Not pictures is Russell Rallens.

Both photos by Susan E Ferrell. Craig Fronk got the top cover picture of teammates Kent Lane, Dave Wilds, Irv Callahan and Mike Sheerin. The fivesome, with only a few practice dives together, nonetheless managed to bring home a silver medal in the 4-way event at the World Championships of Relative Work in South Africa, Dec. Team Leader Dona Reilly took the picture of the U.S.

8-way Team that took home not only the gold medal, but a world record as well. What happened to mystikal. Standing left to right are Mike Sheerin, Dave Wilds, Kent Lane, Scott Meek and Irv Callahan; kneeling are Danny Peters, Mike Parnell and Craig Fronk. Not pictured are team members Ken Crabtree and Mike Gennis.