Diamond Quest '94 Trivia

• The age of the youngest participant was 22, the oldest 65.
• The participant with most number of jumps had 7,800, the one with the least had 300.
• The newest to the sport had been jumping for just over a year, the longest in the sport had over 29 years.
• For the first time row seven wings were hung.
• There were no cutaways from the first DQ '94 record attempt was made till after the new record was established.
• The term Sikorscrew was coined after Jon Sikorsky performed his amazing maneuver on record attempt number two.
• The number of wings on a discrete diamond of size n is equal to (sqrt(n)-1)*2
• The number of lockups on a discrete diamond of size n is equal to (sqrt(n)-1)^2
• The number of pilots on a discrete diamond of size n is equal to (n)^0
• Bruce Robertson, a member of DQ '94, is the only person to hold both the current, official RW world record (200), and the current, official CRW world record.

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