World Class Sky Diving

We had the greatest day today. Our motorcycle crowd got on their 12 bikes and Ron and I, who seem to be the little old folks in this crowd, followed them in the car. We stopped at the Galloping Goose for a pit stop and coffee.

We headed down the back roads to Eloy to the municipal airport. The weather is ideal here with no winds and people come from around the world to participate. Here's a tandem jump.

 There were 6 planes we saw up at 16,000 - 18,000 ft. that dropped 120 divers who formed a star formation and then finally they started swooping down onto the field.
Some landings were great and some others slid along on their bums.

Next the parachutes were re-packed and away they went again.

I talked to 4 women  (3 from the UK and 1 from Holland ) who were here to break the world record of 41 women, and they did this morning. 100 women tried out for slots and  64 qualified. They jumped out of the plane together, going 180 mph, heads down to get into formation. Then the trick is to slow yourself by spreading yourself bigger if you get ahead so the rest can get into their appointed slots. Quite fascinating. I told them that I couldn't do this as I had promised my daughter that I would never sky-dive or river raft. One girl told me that she had to promise her mother that she would never ride a motorcycle. This was after she'd hurtled down threw the sky setting a world record. I laughed and said I'd just joined a 'motorcycle gang' this morning.   Great experience
Unfortunately the following Tuesday 3 men collided at 250', with canopies opened coming in for their landing and 2 crashed to earth and perished.
 Here's one of the photographers, complete with nose and mouths cannula's for Oxygen. I think they hover longer at the highest spot capturing the shoots to prove that it is a world record.