100yrs old jumping out of airplanes. https://www.stripes.com/news/former...lebrates-100th-birthday-with-skydive-1.544989 DILLINGHAM AIRFIELD, Hawaii — Blowing out 100 candles wasn’t good enough for Polito “Paul” Olivas, a 30-year Army veteran whose career took him through World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars. On Wednesday, the former Green Beret jumped tandem from a plane 14,000 feet in the air over Oahu’s North Shore and landed in Dillingham Airfield – a week after he turned 100. “I’d do it again,” he told a gaggle or reporters minutes after landing. As a veteran paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division that jumped into Normandy, France, on D-Day in June 1944, Olivas has hundreds of parachute drops under his belt. But none included freefalling — the span in jumping before the chute opens. His jumps were all relatively low to the ground, and the parachutes were connected to a static line that automatically unfurled them as he exited the airplane bay door. His birthday jump had a minute-long freefall, followed by about five minutes under an open chute. He recalled that on D-Day, his plane was only about 300 feet above the ground when he jumped. “The closer you are to the ground, the less of a target you are,” Olivas said Wednesday morning as he awaited his flight.
Curvature can juuuust begin to be seen at around 35,000 ft. What you see in that photo is the result of a wide-angle lens.
He doesn’t even need a chute, loose skin will slow you down at that age. That’s just friggin awesome stuff.
That really is incredible. In a similar vein I recently encountered a husband and wife bicycling in East Glacier Montana. They were both in their late 70's. I asked them where they'd ridden from and they said "New York." I thought they were kidding at first. They weren't.
Bush Sr. has been diving on his Bday for a long time, last was his 90th, then he was rolled out in his wheelchair.