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101-Year-Old D-Day Veteran Becomes World's Oldest Skydiver

Big respect due to this legend...

A D-Day veteran has become the world's oldest person to skydive, after he jumped 15,000 ft, at the age of 101 and 38 days old.

Bryson William Verdun Hayes, known as Verdun, smashed the current world record on Sunday, completing a tandem skydive with three generations of his family at an airfield in Honiton, Devon.

The great-grandfather only tried skydiving for the first time last year when he reached 100 but breaking the British record for the oldest skydiver was not enough for him.

Mr Hayes, who said a parachute jump was something he had wanted to do since he turned 90, but was talked out of it then by his late wife, was determined to take the world record and beat its previous holder, Canadian Armand Gendreau who skydived in June 2013 aged 101 and three days.

When asked how he was feeling prior to Sunday's jump, Mr Hayes replied with that he was "absolutely" looking forward to the experience.

The widower took to the skies with 10 members of his family at Skydive Buzz in Dunkeswell, all raising money for the Royal British Legion.

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I love it. (Plus the fact he was a Sapper like my Grandpa in WWII, and Verdun also completed his World Record at the same place I got mine)

[dadafett]

Hooah! Airborne All the Way! ---

Somethings can't help but catch my eye -- the second time today I saw this story --

see the video -- http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/europe...-old-skydiver/