The Drop

News and Resources from AXIS Flight School


Category: Blue Skies Magazine

  • “This photo is a bit cryptic, but when you are flying a tiny little high performance canopy right along a really-damn-big wingsuit, in the dark, a few thousand feet above a bunch of thorny, prickly things, your attention might not be completely on the camera work. Nik Daniel (canopy pilot) and Alex Swindle (wingsuiter) completed the…

  • I would like to thank Blue Skies Magazine for utilizing one of my XRW photographs for the December 2013 cover spot. It depicts local Eloy wing-suiter Alex Swindle and myself completing a surf dock over Skydive Arizona. The photo was taken with a GoPro Hero 3 mounted to an extension pole set on time lapse mode (One photo per second).

  • “A group of 63 women fell to Earth and set a new world record Saturday. The skydivers from around the world descended to Eloy, Ariz., from 18,000 feet in the air, setting a new world record for the most amount of women flying headfirst in a formation…” -Daily News Here are some of my selects (Prints…

  • “Todd Love – you might not know the name…yet, but you’ve probably seen some pictures or videos of him.  You’d remember because those were the images that immediately made you stop whining about how hard your day was and how you just couldn’t do something because it was too difficult.  He often has that effect…

  • “If you’re like me, you love skydiving because it makes you feel alive.  If you’re like Todd Love, everything you do is to celebrate the fact that you’re still alive and you live your life to the fullest.  25 October 2010 is what Todd calls his “Alive Day.” This is the day he survived stepping…

  • I would like to thank Kolla, Lara & Pierre from  Blue Skies Magazine for making one of my recent images their featured photo! It depicts Bill Butler (AXIS Flight School Student) and myself completing a “Compressed Stack” over Skydive Arizona. BTW, if you don’t have a subscription to Blue Skies Magazine, what are you waiting for?  Click…