Enjoyment, exhilaration and limitless challenge are available even to the absolute beginner. And at its highest level, skydiving is an intensely competitive sport which requires finely tuned skills, intimate knowledge of the air and perfect body control. Russ Powell as counterman at diner where Toodles tries to get a meal in exchange for a small "art" statuette When your instructor deploys the chute at around 5000ft, expect a jerk as the falling stops and you go upwards for a second or two. It's only then your brain really registers the sensation that you are descending. Tandem jumps are our best-selling type of skydive. In essence, the professional skydiver is the one who does all the work and you just hang in there and enjoy the ride! Shaking the Rump: After the opening shot of biplanes in combat, the first shot is a rather surprising close-up of a woman shaking her bottom at the camera, said bottom filling the entire scene. Bill and Toodles are in a Nicaraguan cantina enjoying the company of local ladies.

Noted movie pilot Paul Mantz was in charge of the aerial photography, undertaking a number of stunts that included two aircraft flying in close formation. Production notes [ edit ]

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A static line descent can be made after usually about 6 hours of ground training and involves the student jumper leaving the aircraft at 3500 feet. The main parachute is deployed using a device called a ‘static line’. This is a length of webbing attached to the aircraft at one end and the bag, in which the main parachute is kept, at the other, as the jumper falls away from the aircraft, the static line pulls the main parachute out and begins the deployment. Contrived Coincidence: Bill gets a job as a bodyguard for Weber, a bootlegger and, as is later revealed, a drug-runner. New York is a large city, but of all the places where Alabama could finally get work, she gets hired by Weber as a secretary.

UK Only. Despatched by Royal Mail first class post on the same day. Excludes Weekends & Bank Holidays. Book Ends: The film ends with Toodles rejoining the Marines and Bill, after getting Alabama to agree to marry him, doing the same. Hypocritical Humor: A random gag in the last scene has Bill opening doors to various offices in an office building as he hunts for Alabama. He throws open one door to the "Society for the Enforcement of Prohibition", only to find a man pouring a drink from a flask. Frank Hagney as Marine officer in Nicaragua who tells Bill and Toodles, "this binge of yours has cost the government a small fortune — consider yourselves under arrest" With aviation central to the film's theme, Hollywood movie pilot Paul Mantz successfully obtained the contract to perform the flying sequences for Parachute Jumper. [5] The aircraft used were the Buhl CA-6 Airsedan, Curtiss Fledgling, Fairchild 71, and Stearman C3R. [6]a b Carr, Jay. "Articles: Parachute Jumper (1933)." Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved: August 15, 2013.