Oldest Skydiver in the UK - Manette does a skydive for her 102nd Birthday!

How old were you when you made your first skydive?

For Manette, it was on her 102nd Birthday! Making her the oldest person to skydive in the UK!

Manette Baillie, from Suffolk, undertook the feat to raise money for three causes close to her heart - the East Anglian Air Ambulance, Motor Neurone Disease Association and Benhall Village Hall.

She made the jump at UK Parachuting Beccles on Sunday, the 25th of August, 2024. Connected to Tandem Instructor Callum Kennedy and filmed by Dylan Whitehair & Nick Herridge.

Congratulations Manette!

British Skydiving is the national governing body for sport parachuting in the United Kingdom and N. Ireland.

Skydiving is one of today’s most exciting sports. Dynamic and colourful, it offers mastery of the air and the freedom to make the skies your own!
Enjoyment, exhilaration and limitless challenge are available even to the absolute beginner. And at its highest level, skydiving is an intensely competitive sport which requires finely tuned skills, intimate knowledge of the air and perfect body control.

More people than ever are discovering for themselves the pure joy that freedom of the skies can bring. The majority of skydiving is done as fun jumping. It offers not only the enjoyment of the jumps but great opportunities to meet with friends and enjoy a wide range of social activities.

www.britishskydiving.org