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LONDON, England / The Telegraph / News / How About That? / April 4, 2009
A 97-year-old daredevil has jumped from an aircraft in his first ever skydive
Mr Moyse will celebrate his 98th birthday on Wednesday Photo: AP
George Moyse jumped from a plane at 10,000ft with his instructors above an airfield at Netheravon in Wiltshire.
The pensioner, from Bournemouth, Dorset, celebrates his 98th birthday on Wednesday and carried out the stunt to raise money for the Royal National Life-Boat Institution.
George Moyse, 97, from Bournemouth, Dorset, with tandem Instructor Mike Jeng during his tandem parachute jump at Netheravon Airfield near Salisbury. Old age no longer begins at 65, health secretary says. Photo: PA
Mr Moyse said that he was an "outgoing" person who put his health and mobility down to luck.
He said: "I do not sit around. I get about, I go for a walk every day and I do my own cooking, washing, ironing, everything. I have just been lucky to be so agile."
His grandson Edward Brewer, 43, also jumped in the tandem dive with another instructor, plummeting freefall for the first 5,000ft at nearly 120mph before their parachutes released.
Mr Brewer, from Petersfield in Hampshire, said: "This is all my grandfather's idea. He has supported the RNLI all his life so they were the obvious beneficiaries when he decided he really wanted to do the jump.
"Both the volunteer lifeboat crew and lifeguards do a fantastic job to keep us safe on and in the water and as a charity they receive no government funding at all so to be able to do something so amazing and raise money for them is something my grandfather really wanted to do and if he can do it, so can I."
Mr Brewer's jump was in aid of the Royal Air Forces Association.
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Mr Moyse will celebrate his 98th birthday on Wednesday Photo: AP
George Moyse jumped from a plane at 10,000ft with his instructors above an airfield at Netheravon in Wiltshire.
The pensioner, from Bournemouth, Dorset, celebrates his 98th birthday on Wednesday and carried out the stunt to raise money for the Royal National Life-Boat Institution.
George Moyse, 97, from Bournemouth, Dorset, with tandem Instructor Mike Jeng during his tandem parachute jump at Netheravon Airfield near Salisbury. Old age no longer begins at 65, health secretary says. Photo: PA
Mr Moyse said that he was an "outgoing" person who put his health and mobility down to luck.
He said: "I do not sit around. I get about, I go for a walk every day and I do my own cooking, washing, ironing, everything. I have just been lucky to be so agile."
His grandson Edward Brewer, 43, also jumped in the tandem dive with another instructor, plummeting freefall for the first 5,000ft at nearly 120mph before their parachutes released.
Mr Brewer, from Petersfield in Hampshire, said: "This is all my grandfather's idea. He has supported the RNLI all his life so they were the obvious beneficiaries when he decided he really wanted to do the jump.
"Both the volunteer lifeboat crew and lifeguards do a fantastic job to keep us safe on and in the water and as a charity they receive no government funding at all so to be able to do something so amazing and raise money for them is something my grandfather really wanted to do and if he can do it, so can I."
Mr Brewer's jump was in aid of the Royal Air Forces Association.
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