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Parachuting into Sedalia

SYDNEY BRINK/DEMOCRAT | Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:00 am

Staff Sgt. Jerad Gough takes readings Thursday morning with an anemometer to measure wind speed as a twin-engine Grumman C-2 Greyhound Navy cargo plane circles overhead at about 12,000 feet with three skydivers from the 101st Airborne Division's Parachute Demonstration Team. The gusting winds, up to 21 mph, made jumping into a field next to Smith-Cotton Junior High School a dicey proposition but the go-ahead was given and students were treated to a free-fall event with trailing smoke. The unpredictable winds however forced the three jumpers to land in a field near Crown Hill Cemetery.