Alan eustace skydive chicago

By: International Skydiving Museum & Hall of Fame Staff

All About the Guy Who Nailed That Surprise Record: Alan Eustace is an interesting flavor of adventurer: part logistician, part scientist, part dreamer, part daredevil. If Iron Man had a real-world counterpart, it would certainly be Alan.

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We all remember the day in that he quietly beat out Felix Baumgartner’s much-ballyhooed Red Bull Stratos jump for sheer altitude &#; and we all remember wondering who, exactly, he was, having seemingly popped out on the tip-top of the skydiving scene out of near-nowhere. So &#; let’s address that, shall we?

Like most of us, Alan fell in love with all things airborne as a very young child.

He started skydiving in , alongside his best friend David.

“[David] convinced me to go,” Alan remembers. “He was super excited about it, so pretty much the day he turned 18, he convinced me with him to a place in Florida called Paragators, run by a guy named Jimmy Godwin.”

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