Video: Head First Zombies Invade Earth! (New Vertical Skydive World Record)

 Ok, so it's not an invasion of zombies from the sky after all, it's really a shattering of the previous record for vertical skydiving formations from 108 skydivers in 2009 to a whopping 138 just yesterday in Ottawa Illinois, southwest of Chicago. We tend to think of all skydiving as 'vertical', but when the guys and gals in the sport ran out of ideas for normal skydiving, they decided to stand on their head and go truly vertical in freefall... and now they've progressed well into the idea of building formations while in this mode of flight.

 I haven't made a skydive in about 20 years, but it sure would seem that the combination of having your head down low and the extra speed would make building formations like the one in this video very difficult to achieve. The time available is shortened greatly due to the extra speed, tho they do leave the aircraft at much higher altitudes to help overcome this. Reports indicate they were leaving the aircraft at 18,500 and it took 15 tries to build the 138 person record-setting snowflake. Pretty amazing stuff!

Zombies, I mean skydivers going head first into a world record vertical formation!