4,000 M · POINT 01
STAR
Keys take the center. Outside flyers arrive on level—not down a chimney—offering wrists only after the picture stops moving.
K1⟷K2 · O1>WR · O2>WL
Dawn load 06:12 · Echelon airspace
FREEFALL
Eight bodies. One shared horizon.
EXIT 4,000 M / TERMINAL 198 KM·H−1
Relative work / sequence 17-B
Bodies
become
geometry.
POINT 01/04
STAR
SEP 0.8 M
3,280 M · POINT 02OPEN
OPEN
ACCORDION
The star breathes outward. A tracked half-body separation keeps the line elastic while the tail pair fold onto opposing knees.
KNEE(R) · WRIST(L) · Δ 1.4 M
2,470 M · POINT 03
DONUT
Every left hand finds a neighbour’s ankle. The ring must remain round enough that dawn stays visible through its center.
LH>LA · SLOT ±04° · HOLD 6 S
1,720 M · POINT 04
BIPOLE
Two lines, four bodies each. The energy of the break is already in the shape: clean quadrants, eye contact, no one crossing the center.
AXIS 038° · TRACK ON WAVE
Before the aircraft / Hangar 3
WE FALL
FIRST
ON EARTH.
At 05:18, eight jumpers lie belly-down on painted creeper boards. Wheels chatter over every seam in the concrete. Nobody calls it rehearsal. It is the first skydive.
DOOR
NORTH / 038°
7× full-speed creeps
2× eyes closed
1× silent from exit to wave
1,300 M / a private language
THE SKY
STARTS
BEEPING.
Inside every helmet, three clean tones divide instinct from decision. Nobody waits for the sound. Everybody hears it.
BREAK1,500 M•••
PULL1,100 M—
DECIDE800 M•••••
“A beep is not an instruction. It is a mirror: it tells you whether your plan has already happened.”— Ivo Senn, outside center
1,500 M / the wave travels once
THE WAVE
BREAKS
THE SHAPE.
Elbows flash. Eight grips release on the same frame. Each flyer owns a clean forty-five-degree quadrant before anyone reaches for a handle.
GRIPS / 00TRACK / 5.2 SSEPARATION / 43 M
800 M / speed becomes silence
THEN THE
SKY OPENS.
The violent vertical line becomes a pendulum. Eight magenta canopies breathe across a pale horizon, each pilot alone again, carrying the shared shape home.
4.2s
snivel to full flight
5.8m/s
descent under canopy
08
quiet radio checks
ECHELON 8 / EXIT MANIFEST 06:12
EIGHT
WAYS TO
HOLD A LINE.
Door order runs clockwise from the point pair. Names are checked once on the mat, once at 3,000 metres, once in the quiet before the red light.
Mara Voss
Point · 3,840 jumps
Téo Lang
Inside center · 4,112 jumps
Ivo Senn
Outside center · 2,906 jumps
Nadia Ro
Tail · 3,221 jumps
Arun Vale
Outside left · 2,488 jumps
Liv Edda
Outside right · 2,570 jumps
Sol Mercer
Camera flyer · 4,606 jumps
Éloi Park
Alternate · 1,998 jumps
THE EXIT IS AN AGREEMENT.
THE FORMATION IS PROOF.