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Airkix
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| Looking for: | Active, Outdoor / Active | | Address: | Airkix, Avebury Boulevard, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK9 3XA | | Postcode: | MK9 3XA | | Nearest City: | Oxford | | Kids Activity: | Indoors | | Telephone: | 0845 331 6549 |
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Description
It's flying!
Imagine a wind tunnel that could be used for testing the aerodynamics of an F1 racing car, turn it upright, step into the airflow and you are skydiving. It's a proven concept operating in several countries to the benefit of the skydiving community and anyone else who wishes to taste the thrill of freefall in a completely safe environment.
Walk-thru Airkix in 90 secs (click here) - see a 3 min training movie (click here).
The History of Indoor BodyflightThe idea of flying indoors where we bring the airflow to you was first tried by the American Military in 1964. In 1982 A couple of vertical wind tunnels opened in Tennessee and Las Vegas and the first SkyVenture tunnel opened in Orlando, Florida in 1998. It has been operating there ever since with fantastic success and reliability. Airkix is the seventh tunnel to be manufactured by SkyVenture and the first in Europe.
What made them so important to the skydiving community was when a team of tunnel instructors from SkyVenture Orlando took up skydiving and with very, very few jumps won their category. Since then just about every competitive team has used a tunnel and now two American Drop Zones already have their own permanent wind tunnel.
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