The French tried a big box formation in the summer. They tried to build a 49-way French flag. Most of the attempts ended up in wraps. They used a Transall cargo plane.
Jumpers from Italy set a new national record in July. The 17-plane was done in Bari after three attempts.
In the new rules in CRW there was for the first time a "withdraw" round. It means that the result of the team's worst round isn't calculated in the final results. Before the team would get a rejump if someone had a malfunction before his first dock, resulting in several mysterious malfunctions on working mains.
In Vichy, France, frenchmen set a new sequential record. Those 12 points were done in the French Nationals. Working time was three minutes.