Today is Fred's 46th birthday, and he celebrated with all the usual fanfare: Cake and ice cream. Presents. Tandem jumping with the Golden Knights. You know, nothing out of the ordinary.
We were expecting rain this morning, and Fred was a horrible grump last night, worrying that the weather was going to mess up his jump. The weather gods smiled on him, however, and the jump went off without a hitch.
The Golden Knights presented Fred with a DVD of the experience that is of much better quality than this, but this is what I captured on our camcorder. He is the fourth tandem jumper in this video:
Happy birthday, Fred!
UPDATE: This is the official video they gave him. Each tandem team jumps with their own personal photographer who goes out first and then freefalls face up so that he can shoot the team. They deploy a little chute, which slows them down so that they don't plummet past the photographer. He is underneath them until they deploy the real chute. At that point, they go head up, feet down, and there's really nothing more to see from below. So the photog lands and then shoots their landing. I think Fred's photographer is lucky he didn't get run over:
Waiting...
10 years ago
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