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Nottingham Post
Nottingham Post
National
Laycie Beck

I did a skydive over Nottinghamshire and it was the experience of a lifetime

Falling from the sky at 125mph is something I never thought I would be doing, but that’s the speed you can reach in free fall if you jump out of a plane at 14,000 feet.

It was an unusually sunny January day when I visited Skydive Langar, and I spent the morning watching colourful parachutes appearing in the sky.

I completed my first ever tandem skydive in the afternoon, which is something I have always wanted to do, but never thought I would be brave enough to do it, as where is the sense in jumping out of a perfectly good airplane?

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