Featuring the DeHavilland DHC-4 Turbo Caribou, carrying 36 skydivers to altitude for a tailgate exit, complementing the Skydive Delmarva Twin Otter. The event will include attempts to set the Delmarva big-way record (currently at 40), and an attempt to set the POPS (Parachutists Over Phorty) record for the Eastern Shore (currently at 8). ... What madness!! It's scary!!
FLASH: RW Organizing by Chris Wagner, Kate Armstrong,
and Laura Wagner, on Saturday and Sunday.
** Check here after the boogie to see a review of boogie happenings; w/ photos and video! **
Click here to see related story on history of the turbine Caribou.
Click on Video tab above to see short clip of Caribou loading, taxiing, and taking off.
Click here for link to Skydive Delmarva website for details of Boogie registration.
Words from Jim Crouch, of West Point Skydiving Adventures, and USPA Director of Safety & Training:
“Since the faces changed every year as to who helped to organize the boogie, I really can’t provide any names of organizers who helped with the boogie, but Carol (Clay) has been the one constant in more than 33 years there at the DZ.”
“It has been a challenging year for us at West Point. Changes brought on by the airport authority have made it impossible to host any boogies, and nearly impossible to conduct regular skydiving operations there. It is sad to see skydiving end there, after 49 years of continuous jumping, but it is time for us to move on and I am researching several new possibilities for a drop zone location. The jumpers at West Point have always put on a terrific Halloween Boogie, and I was glad to get a call from Dave Matchett with an offer to take over the boogie for us, while I search for a new home. I have no doubt that Delmarva will create a great event, and the drop zone will be thoroughly trashed by the end of the boogie! … Dave, make sure there are plenty of large plastic trash bags, you will need them Sunday morning!”
Carol “The Queen” Clay … 15,000+ skydives; Matriarch of West Point Skydiving.