A canopy formation is a formation built by parachutists by flying their

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s in proximity to each other and then taking grips ("docking") on other jumpers' parachutes. The practice of building such formations is officially known as : ''canopy formations (CF)'', Former Terms are ''canopy formation skydiving (CFS)'' or ''canopy relative work (CRW or CReW)''. In 2012, an eleven-member team of the

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achieved a canopy formation involving all members of the team. In November 2007, a 100-person was performed over

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. To date, this is the largest such formation ever achieved and recognised as an official

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(FAI) World Record. The current FAI European record is a 30-parachute formation built in 2018 in Teuge in the Netherlands "A 100-way diamond!"
CFworlrecord.com, retrieved June 11, 2014

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