{"id":24135,"date":"2021-12-14T12:09:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T12:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.churchillretirement.co.uk\/?p=24135"},"modified":"2023-02-01T10:11:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T10:11:25","slug":"graham-plans-to-take-the-plunge-with-a-12000-ft-skydive-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/news\/other-news\/graham-plans-to-take-the-plunge-with-a-12000-ft-skydive-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham plans to take the plunge with a 12,000 ft skydive in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graham plans to take the plunge with a 12,000 ft skydive in 2022<\/strong><\/span><\/p>

77-year-old Graham Costiff has lived at Churchill\u2019s Laurel Lodge<\/a> in Carshalton for four years with his wife Helen, and is going to make a New Year\u2019s Resolution that is more daring than most...<\/p>

In March 2022 he is planning a tandem skydive with his daughter Emma and grandson Louis, as part of Louis\u2019 21st<\/sup> birthday celebrations. The jump will take place at Headcorn Aerodrome near Ashford, where he\u2019ll be exiting the aeroplane at a height of 12,000 ft and experiencing 60 seconds of freefall before opening the parachute and coming down to land.<\/p>

Graham is a former London firefighter, and has some experience of parachuting in his younger days. He and his blue watch colleagues from Mitcham Fire Station did a parachute jump together back in the 1980s, although it was slightly different as it was a solo jump from a lower height of 3,000 ft. Around that time he also did a bungee jump from a 2,000 ft crane in Lake Windermere, so he was quite the adrenaline junkie, and is now rediscovering his adventurous streak.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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