SkyVenture started just like many other businesses have, with a notion that a concept could be better than it currently is. Bill Kitchen, the original owner of the company and designer of our first tunnel, visited competing wind tunnels and knew there had to be a better way. He felt that the facility he had just visited was in need of a better safer system as he had been injured during the flight. He spent the next three years developing a better system, and in August of 1998, opened the first SkyVenture in Orlando, Florida.