George H.W. Bush Goes Skydiving for His 90th Birthday

Skydiving has become something of a birthday tradition for former U.S. President George H.W. Bush.

41 celebrated his 90th birthday by leaping from a plane at a height of about 10,000 feet over Kennebunkport, Maine, on Thursday, where he spent most of his childhood. Bush suffers from Parkinson's disease, which has kept him bound to a wheelchair for most of the past year.

The former president's flight was scheduled to depart around 10:45 a.m. ET, and the weather was all clear from the start.

It's a wonderful day in Maine — in fact, nice enough for a parachute jump.

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