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Wingsuit Record
Wingsuit Record
Wingsuit Record
PERRIS, Calif. (AP) — Sixty-one wingsuit skydivers have flown into the record books, coming together in a diamond-shaped formation on a flight over Southern California before breaking apart and floating to the ground. Taya Weiss, who organized the jump and took part, said Tuesday the record was set over the weekend above the Skydive Perris jump center...
Women Set Illinois State Skydiving Record
Women Set Illinois State Skydiving Record
Women Set Illinois State Skydiving Record
OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) — Thirty-nine women skydivers from around the country have set a state record in northern Illinois. The women jumped from two planes Saturday afternoon to build a cross-shaped belly formation over Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, 80 miles southwest of Chicago...
Kennewick Woman Celebrates 80th Birthday With Skydive
Kennewick Woman Celebrates 80th Birthday With Skydive
Kennewick Woman Celebrates 80th Birthday With Skydive
KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — A Kennewick woman celebrated her 80th birthday with a 12,500-foot skydive. The Tri-City Herald reports that Marian Roberts jumped out of a plane operated by West Plains Skydiving in Ritzville on Saturday. She had her 30-year-old granddaughter, Jen Roberts, with her, and that made the jump even more fun than her prior skydiving experience, 20 years ago...