No. 41 Jumps for Joy - From a Plane ; Celebrates 80th Birthday with Two Leaps
The Washington Times › June 14, 2004
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Just hours after he faced down the gravity of his own 80th birthday, former President George Bush yesterday kept his date with a different kind of gravity.
At 1:20 p.m., the octogenarian, harnessed to an Army paratrooper, bellowed "Let's go!" as the pair leaped from an F-27 plane circling 13,500 feet above his presidential library and museum at Texas A&M University. His partner deployed a drogue chute to slow them from 180 mph to 120 mph, and they free-fell for several minutes before deploying the main chute at 5,500 feet.See the full content of this document
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No. 41 Jumps for Joy - From a Plane ; Celebrates 80th Birthday with Two Leaps
"This was a day of joy and a day of wonder for the Bush family - and certainly for the old guy," Mr. Bush said after the jump.
The former president said his feat was intended to send...See the full content of this document
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