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Doug GarrDoug Garr is one of America's most fascinating writers, and he's an expert on everything from what's making Americans fats to skydiving.
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Leo DeanLeo Dean boldly jumps where few his age have dared -- out of a soaring airplane.
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Free-Falling Family TimeTime flies and so does this mother-son skydiving team. Growing Bolder found a unique tandem whose definition of spending quality time together involves taking the plunge at 13,500 feet.
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A Leaping Legend Named LewLew Sanborn is the holder of parachute license D-1, still skydives across the country and he's 80 years old! See why taking 12,000 foot plunges are his fountain of youth!
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Skydiving GrandmothersHey, "Today Show" -- I'll see your Skydiving Grandmother: And raise you an entire channel of people doing stuff just like this -- going extreme after the age of 50. How about a group of skydivers -- all over the age of 60 -- freefalling into the world record books. Maybe you'd be interested in the story of Joe Kittinger, the first man in space. Before the space...
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Another Skydiving Adventure StoryEarlier I published a near death experience that I had participating the sport of skydiving. This one was a bit more terrifying in that it lasted a seemingly endless amount of time. SKYDIVING ADVENTURE STORY #2 – OVER THE PINE FOREST I had been skydiving a mere week and my skydiving logbook reflected 20 dives at the Deland (FL) airport where I had learned the sport a week earlier. I had...
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Lifelong Learning Minute: Fly Indoors!What goes up must come down. That's why you hesitate to try skydiving. But what if you could get a similar experience just a few feet off the floor?
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Joe Kittinger Touts Upcoming Record AttemptYou may have noticed our friend Col. Joe Kittinger popping up on your TV screens a lot this week. As we first revealed earlier this year, Joe is advising Felix Baumgartner as Felix attempts to break Joe's 50-year-old record.
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Fly Like an Eagle ... Indoors
What goes up must come down. That's why you hesitate to try skydiving. But what if you could get a similar experience just a few feet off the floor?
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Celebrating 50 Years of Skydiving History50 years ago this summer, Joe Kittinger rode a balloon to the very edge of space and jumped. To commemorate man's longest leap, 50 of the world's best skydivers gathered to honor Kittinger with a very unique tribute, high above the ground.
