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WATCH: Indoor Skydiving Coming To King Of Prussia
iFLY simulates skydiving for participants while they basically stay put in one place.
A new indoor skydiving facility is slated to arrive in King of Prussia later in 2015 or in early 2016, according to Philly.com.
The company, iFLY, “simulates true free fall conditions,” according to their website.
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Virtual skydivers receive a training from instructors before they are given full flight gear.
That’s when they enter a vertical wind tunnel, the flight chamber, in which fans produce winds of up to 175 miles per hour.
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The experience allows participants to experience the sensation of skydiving without really moving.
iFLY launched in 1999 and has expanded to dozens of facilities around the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, SIngapore, and Abu Dhabi.
Image courtesy of iFLY.
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