The Drop

News and Resources from AXIS Flight School


Category: Skydiving

  • Skydive Expo is a  6-day gear extravaganza of fun and education—seminars, manufacturers, world-class organizing, and jumping. The people who make your gear want to meet you and share all they know about their products. It’s a fun, informal event filled with education, skydiving, and skydivers. Planned Events The heart of the Skydive Expo is the…

  • Just got word that Brad from Australia received his Free Fly Crest! Achieving this enables the jumper to participate in jumps with more than three people. Check out the video below!

  • December 24 (Saturday):
**Day one! Cheap jumps, load organizers and beer truck all begin and continue all boogie! **FREE appetizers at the Bent Prop from 6-9 PM. December 25 (Sunday):
**Christmas day with your Arizona Family!
**Yummy holiday dinner special at the Bent Prop. December 26 (Monday):
**Load Organizing (Airspeed, Arsenal, AXIS)
**Canopy safety seminar relating to canopy flight at…

  • The United States Parachute Association (USPA) held its National Skydiving Championships at Skydive Arizona in late October and early November 2011. Competitors enjoyed near-perfect weather throughout and performed many complex maneuvers in a range of categories, including 4-way, 8-way, 10-way, and 16-way formation skydiving; vertical formation skydiving; canopy formation; freefall style & accuracy landing; and the…

  • Australian jumpers Brad and Emma spent five weeks at Skydive Arizona to train in the sky and tunnel to improve on their overall body-flight. During their stay they completed 100 jumps and 16 hours of tunnel! Here are some of the highlights: Thanks for visiting us. It was great flying with you guys. Can’t wait…

  • To promote next year’s Electric Forest Music festival, Arizona Arsenal but together a short skydiving video. Check it out!

  • Check out the latest UPT ad featuring Spaceland Blue!

  • “While other women break the glass ceiling, they smashed through it – dropping from a height of 8,000ft. Meet the first all-women team of skydivers of the Indian Air Force (IAF), which will make its official debut on Air Force Day on October 8 by jumping from an An-32 transport aircraft at the Hindon airbase…