104 old lady - Dorothy Hoffner - makes world record for tandem skydive. Let us know more about this sensational record.
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Dorothy Hoffner, is a lifelong Chicagoan. Most surprising thing is that Hoffner didn't start skydiving until she was 100 years old.
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At 104 years old, Hoffner has broken the world record of 103 years old, which was set in Sweden in 2022 by Linnéa Ingegärd Larsson. Age is just a number, is not it?
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Tandem skydiving or tandem parachuting refers to a type of skydiving where a student skydiver is connected to an instructor via a harness.
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Dorothy Hoffner, established this skydive at Skydive Chicago on Sunday -1st Oct 2023 - in Ottawa, Illinois, jumping from a plane roughly 10,000 feet off the ground.
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She was born on Dec. 17, 1918, in Chicago, just after World War I ended. She grew up poor, couldn’t afford college and worked for Illinois Bell, a telephone company.
Video of the jump shows Ms. Hoffner looking around with her eyes wide open under goggles and her baby blue sweater billowing as she parachutes down, seemingly relaxed.
@ The entire dive took seven minutes.@ She takes help of Walker to walk on land, keep this in mind. @ "Wonderful," Hoffner said about being back on the ground.
Hoffner, who turns 105 this December, is not done trying new things. Her next move is to hopefully take a hot air balloon ride.