More than 100 skydivers from across the globe, all at least 60 years old, gathered in Riverside County Sunday to achieve a world record.
"First of all, this is a world record and we were hand-selected to be here, said Rick Poplinger, 68."Because we're among the jumpers that have shown that we're pretty adept at doing what we do,"
The group"Skydivers Over Sixty," or SOS, performed the largest freefall formation with 107 senior citizens whose ages range from 60 to 78."Just because you are over 60 doesn't mean you have to sit down and not participate in activities," said Fredrick Winsser, 75."There's all kinds of possibilities you can do. I scuba dive as well, I used to ski, skydiving is the cats meow.
After four days of preparation, and six prior jumps, the seventh one was close to setting the world record. "The formation built perfectly. It was just one person that was out," explained Brodsky-Chenfield."And that's the trick of doing large formations, is that all 107 people have to have a perfect minute at the same minute."
In the end, the skydivers were unable to achieve the record Sunday, partly due to uncooperative weather, which canceled several attempts.
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