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- Other people would laugh at me.

In fact, all my friends say we worry

about you Dilys, you know.

I think even coming out this weekend,

somebody said oh no be careful.

I think that's ridiculous.

What a better way to die, having fun.

I am a world record-holder for being the oldest

woman skydiver in the world.

I think, if there's only one way, it's down.

So even if I've got slight absent-mindedness,

I'll be alright.

I don't worry that my carpet is rather threadbare

and old, as long as I'm skydiving.

But I do get scared.

I used to be so scared that I would drive the car

up to the drop zone and think, I could go back.

I don't have to stay here.

But I knew if I went away, I'd never come back again.

So, so the ecstasy was more than the fear.

(airplane motor)

The first time I jumped out of an airplane,

I thought I was going to die.

And as I fell, I thought, what a mistake, this is death.

I can remember it now.

And then the next second, I thought, “Oh, I'm flying.”

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Skydiving gives you the most intense, wonderful feeling.

I mean, people come down from a jump

and they all say, “It's better than sex.”

I mean, take that the way you like it, but it is.

I think sometimes we get pulled down by fear,

we get pulled down by necessity of work,

and it's a mistake.

That having done skydiving, I learned courage.

I learned to go.

And that has been the biggest turning point in my life.

And I think the courage has helped me to run

a charity, which from scratch is very difficult.

They say most charities fail after three years.

And I knew that I had a program

that affected for the good, very profoundly

disabled people and made them really much happier,

and that thrills me.

I believe we all have a purpose in life.

And I believe that Touch Trust is my purpose.

I don't have much time to think about the past.

I'm so busy in the present and just going

into the future, that the past recedes.

And I am enjoying so much these days remembering

the past, remembering even the difficult times

that seeing how they all fell into a pattern,

which now I'm glad of.

You are a bird for 50 seconds and imagine,

you can go 140 miles an hour, you can do a barrel roll.

You can flip, you can move here, you can move there,

you can join up with people.

It is unbelievably wonderful.

I won't stop, until I know it's not safe.

But for now, I'm safe and I can do it,

and I will do it for as long as I can.