You're never too old for a little skydiving....
BREMERTON, Wash. - A 96-year-old man aiming to become the oldest person to make a solo skydive had a rough landing near here and suffered a dislocated shoulder, but otherwise emerged unscathed.
Milburn Hart of Seattle jumped out of a plane Friday afternoon near the Bremerton airport.
"He said his arm hurt on the way out the door, so he had a little problem turning," said Dina Fodd of Blue Skies Adventures Skydiving.
Hart, who lives at the North Haven Retirement Center in North Seattle, prepared for the jump with five hours of training and a written test Friday. He'd made two jumps in tandem with an experienced jumper last year.
His entourage included six friends from the retirement center and, from Elma, daughter Diane Hamilton, her husband Dave and their daughter, who angrily refused to watch her grandfather's risky venture.
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
