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January/February 2009 issue	In this issue Table of Contents Feature: Nunavut Feature: Royal Ontario Museum Feature: Hero school The Inside Story Editor’s Notebook Reverberations À la carte

All students at the Canadian Forces School of Search and Rescue remember learning to skydive — with a 45- kilogram pack of medical and survival gear strapped to them, a ground instructor’s voice buzzing commands in their headphones and the rushing air taking their breath away. Billy Ternes had an extra thrill: a freak snow squall. As he parachuted from a Buffalo aircraft at 1,400 metres through thick snow over Vancouver Island, Ternes glanced back to see the airplane leaving the jump zone, the lesson aborted by dangerous weather. He descended through the storm.

A week later, Ternes found himself on his first free fall from 3,000 metres. “I felt like a scared cat flying on my belly. Some of the guys just tumbled and tumbled and tumbled until they couldn’t read their altimeter,” he says. “It was scary.”

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