South Texas man sets world record for oldest wingsuit jumper—
SAN MARCOS, Texas – August 29, 2025, will be a day one South Texas man will remember for the rest of his thrill-seeking life after setting a Guinness World Record as the oldest man to fly in a wingsuit.
Thomas Conner, 68, said he’s always been adventurous.
“I grew up in the ’70s, so you know that time is all about enjoying life,” Conner said. “So when I got in the Air Force, I didn’t have that. But one day, I walked into the rec center, and I saw a poster asking, ‘Are you a thrill seeker? Do you want to go skydiving?’ I said, ‘Oh man! That is for me right there!”
Conner said he was 22 at the time of his first jump, and he was indeed nervous.
“I volunteered first, and he told me, ‘Oh man, when you jumped out of that plane, you had your eyes closed so tight!’ So, I had fear of it too,” Conner said, laughing.
Since then, he was hooked on falling from the sky.
After retiring from the U.S. Air Force in 1994 and moving all over the country, Conner landed in South Texas, where he found a new skydiving family at Skydive Spaceland San Marcos.
