It hopes to have a Federal Government Riggers License by late Spring. Application has already been made for such an area. Members plan to develop the club to a point where they can train parachutists They intend to start a 10-week course in Red Cross First Aid with an instructor who is a club member. They would then be qualified to undertake rescue work. The club's address is P.O. Box 953, Manchester.
Women are eligible for membership.
The club already has a member who is a grandmother and has 28 jumps to her credit. Another is the mother of seven children and has made two jumps. Mass. The Sixth World Sport Parachuting Championship is to be held at Orange, Mass. in August. This event will be the largest International Aviation Competition ever held in the Western Hemisphere. CPI's founding can be directly attributed to Dick Ballou's late-1961 initiative.