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2ndgensteinke

Any one still collect parachutist, canpara, skydiver?

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I have collected a big pile of old USPA Parachutist mags back into the 60s, with the help of Beatnik who has a much more complete collection (but isn't on this site much these days I think). But I'm not actively collecting; too much to skim through already and using up basement space!

The thing is, some organizations finally got their archives all digitized. Which is amazing; a huge job.


To refresh my own memory too:

The US "Skydiving" recently went online, back to their start in 1979. (https://skydivingmagazine.org/browse-issues/ )

The Brits have had their issues online for some time, right back to 1964 ("Sport Parachutist", "Skydive the Mag") (https://britishskydiving.org/magazine-archive/ )

Lesser collections:

In Canada ("Canpara") we only have the newly created digital issues, so from 2015+.  (https://www.cspa.ca/en/digital-issues )

For the USPA "Parachutist" I only know of an unofficial archive of covers. (and occasionally indexes and some other lesser known old skydive mag covers)  (http://manifestmaster.com/skydiver/index.html )

A very few old time "Parachutist" magazines have been uploaded in the Facebook Oldschool Skydiving forum, along with some other interesting odds & ends documents from the old days. For those who have joined that private group:  (https://www.facebook.com/groups/28649069239/files/ )

 

Anything I'm missing?

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I kept all my Canpara's from the early years I was jumping, in the 1980's and 1990's. I have some of my mags from the 2000's, but not much.

I also kept all my SPCO newsletters. Back then the articles were very technical and informative. Some stuff is relevant even into present day. I don't see much of that quality technical knowledge written or passed on anymore. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place(s)?

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