Happy Birthday, Mr. President! Now here’s your parachute.
Not one to let age slow him down, former President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 90th birthday by skydiving. Despite being largely confined to a wheelchair for the past year due to Parkinson’s Disease, he honored the milestone birthday with a commemorative jump near his summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine, just as he did for his 75th, 80th and 85th birthdays.
Sporting a red, white and blue parachute, he jumped with members of the Army’s Golden Knights from a height of around 10,000 feet.
While the event is purely festive now, Bush’s first skydive occurred under more perilous circumstances, when he was shot down over the Pacific island of Chichi Jima on September 2, 1944.
Watch his birthday jump, via USA Today, here:
