Francisco Filipe

Bio:

Francisco aka Frankie is a skilled Mechanical Engineer with a master degree in Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics. He is also USPA AFF Instructor and Coach with around 12 years of experience as instructor, 19 years as skydiver and more than 3600 skydives at several skydive companies and different types of events. Frankie flew the first time in tunnel at Airkix Milton Keynes in 2006 in a Freefly Camp with Rusty Lewis (US) and Alec Cotten (UK). After that experience, another passion was born and he started to fly in the tube as much as possible. He had the opportunity to fly in tunnels like Inflight Dubai, MadridFly, Hurricane Factory Madrid, Windobona Madrid, DreamFly Porto and has more than 250h inside tunnels. In 2019 became a wind tunnel instructor and worked in Madrid, at Windobona. Currently he has base at DreamFly Lisbon as the maintenance manager and one of the team instructors. He has a peculiar interest for extreme sports which require high concentration levels, mental and physical balance with high adrenaline levels.