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Originally Posted by koz
I think George Sr. is a stud and glad he's still willing to do a jump.
I've taken several 80+ yr olds on tandems. The funniest was the woman who brought her entire church out to watch her.
There have been some really old ones:
Frank Moody, aged 101, accepted a dare from mates over a beer at his local football club.
They challenged him to make a sky-dive jump and Frank Moody was game.
He has now qualified for the Guinness Book of World Records after a successful tandem shy-dive from 3000m with skydiver and instructor, Karl Eitech.
Karl says it was bizarre jumping out of a plane with a man who was alive before
planes were invented!
Frank says he was pushed!
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George Salyer - Record-setting skydiver who holds the records for oldest male tandem jumper at age 91 and multigenerational jumper at age 94 when he skydived with his son, grandson and great grandson, died Nov. 3 in a house fire (yikes!) at age 101.
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koz,
I've never jumped free fall and obviously I won't be the oldest...  However I would love to try a tandem on my 73rd birthday.......  I'm really heavy(290 lbs)... Would it be possible at that weight to go tandem? 
GB TFS 
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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