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This is Cheryl Stearns skydiving in to open the 2012 Wings and Waves Air Show in Daytona Beach, Florida. This is an AMAZING woman! Visit her website:
cherylstearns.com/
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WATCH THIS VIDEO of one of her accuracy jumps!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDVeTj-zu-Q
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Cheryl Stearns
Cheryl is an aviator and the most successful competitive skydiver in the world. Her accomplishments include:
Amelia Earhart Pioneering Achievement Award recipient (2007)
Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame inductee (April 2007)
Inducted into the Embry-Riddle Wall of Fame, Daytona Beach, FL
Wiley Post Commission’s 2005 Wiley Post Spirit Award recipient. This annual award recognizes an aviation innovator and pioneer who does not receive government or large corporation funding.
Current and 23 time U.S. Women’s Parachuting Champion
Awarded a specially created Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) Centenary Medal for her significant personal contribution to the development of air sports and aviation (October 2005)
Awarded the Diplome Leonardo da Vinci, the world’s highest award in aerosports, for her unique achievements in skydiving.
A total of 30 world records in parachuting. At one time held four different world records simultaneously: a feat no other parachutist, man or woman, has matched.
First female member of the U.S. Army’s elite parachuting team, the Golden Knights
Three-time overall women’s style and accuracy champion at the military world championships (1991, 1995, 1996)
Guinness World Record holder for the most parachute jumps in 24 hours by a woman, 352 jumps (November 8-9, 1995). During this endurance test, Cheryl added an additional challenge by aiming for a five-centimeter target on each jump. Despite the cold and wind, Cheryl hit the target a record 188 times: 104 in daytime, 84 at night.
Over 70 first-place women’s titles from the annual U.S. National and biannual World Championships in Parachuting and scores of medals from other national and international competitions.
Four times Cheryl has been the overall U.S. Champion for men and women combined, most recently in 1998.
Over 17,000 skydives, the most of any woman in the world
Master of Aeronautical Science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Pope Air Force Base campus.
US Airways captain in the Embraer 190 and Boeing 737-200, a first officer in the Boeing 757/767 and in the Airbus.
She has flown over 75 different types of aircraft, has over 18,000 flying hours and over 19,000 aircraft landings.
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DA-AMN! RESPECT, woman!
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More aircraft and air show photographs in my sets, "Wings II:"
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157633238205177/
and my original set, "Wings: "
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157626365674082/
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Zoom Lens on 2014-01-24 12:40:24
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