Three engineers from Kennedy gathered a bunch of people who had won competitions around the world and descended on Florida Thanksgiving week last year. The first part of the week the tail end of Hurricane Wilma push them around but finally on the 25th & 26th it calmed down and they set a new world record for a canopy dive.



"The 3 divers teamed up when their careers all brought them to Kennedy Space Center in the mid-1980s.
They're quick to thank the camaraderie of each other and the sport's community for keeping them together.
"The canopy formation group is really a tight-knit group," said Bolton.
"Yes, because when you're tangled up with someone spinning towards the ground at hundreds of miles an hour, you build fast friendships," joked Keenan.
To date, each jumper has successfully landed between 2,000 to 6,000 skydives."


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Story here https://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f229/81-skydivers-set-new-canopy-formation-world-record-114591/

 

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