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Featured in Outside Magazine...

Photographer Brian Buckland captured this exit shot of the most recent 69-way Vertical World Record at Skydive Chicago in August 2007.  It was featured as a spread that ran in the June '08 issue of Outside Magazine.

This is my job: A Parachute Tester

Rickster Powell, PD's chief test jumper and rigger extraordinaire, was recently spotted on the pages on Popular Mechanics. They ran an article in June 2008 titled "This is My Job", a part of their series featuring people with cool or unique ways to make a living. 
If you happen to have the magazine handy, turn to page 174. If not check out their website for details.   They also sport a podcast interview with Ricster - you can check out a portion of it right here

If that is not enough, the entire podcast is available on the Popular Mechanics website (titled “Building Smarter Bridges, Thinking Beyond Hybrids and Flying with Gadgets”). When Rickster isn't busy doing all kinds of highly secret stuff for PD, he's a busy daddy with 2 young kids and a lovely wife.  In some ways Rickster is also a daddy to many of our products, we are lucky to have him as a part of the PD Team.