Parachuting - Records

Records

  • World's largest formation in free-fall: 8 February 2006 in Udon Thani, Thailand (400 linked persons in freefall).
  • World's largest female-only formation: Jump for the Cause, 181 women from 26 countries who jumped from nine planes at 17,000 feet, in 1999.
  • Largest head down formation (vertical formation): 4 August 2012 at Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, Illinois, USA (138 linked skydivers in head to Earth attitude).
  • European record: 13 August 2010, Włocławek, Poland. Polish skydivers broke a record when 102 people created a formation in the air during the Big Way Camp Euro 2010. The skydive was their fifteenth attempt at breaking the record.
  • World's largest canopy formation: 100, set on 21 November 2007 in Lake Wales, Florida, USA.
  • Largest wingsuit formation: 12 November 2008, Lake Elsinore, California, USA (71 wingsuit jumpers).
  • In 1929, U.S. Army Sergeant R. W. Bottriell held the world's record for parachute jumps with 500. At that number, Bottriell stopped parachuting and became a ground instructor.
  • Australian stunt parachutist, Captain Vincent Taylor, received the unofficial record for a lowest-level jump in 1929 when he jumped off a bridge over the San Francisco Bay whose center section had been raised to 135 feet.
  • Don Kellner holds the record for the most parachute jumps, with a total of over 40,000 jumps.
  • Cheryl Stearns (USA) holds the record for the most parachute descents by a woman, with a total of 15,560 in August 2003, as well as the most parachute jumps made in a 24 hour period by a woman—352 jumps from 8–9 November 1995.
  • Bill Dause holds the record for the most accumulated freefall time with over 420 hours (30,000+ jumps).
  • On October 14, 2012, Felix Baumgartner achieved the highest parachute jump in history and the fastest freefall by breaking the speed of sound achieving Mach 1.24 jumping from 128,000 feet (39,010 m) as part of the Red Bull Stratos project. U.S. Air Force Captain Joe W. Kittinger, the previous record-holder (102,800 feet (31,330 m)), served as mission control.
  • Adrian Nicholas holds the record for the longest freefall. A 4 minutes and 55 seconds wingsuit jump made on 12 March 1999.
  • Jay Stokes holds the record for most parachute descents in a single day at 640.
  • The Oldest Skydiver: Frank Moody, aged 101, made a tandem jump on 6 June 2004 at Skydive Cairns. The Tandem Master was Karl Eitrich.
  • Largest all-blind skydiving formation: 2, with Dan Rossi and John “BJ” Fleming on September 13, 2003.

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