A Path less Travelled
Jackie Smith highlights her career in the sport from day 1 and covering how she became the first female on The Red Devils (and becoming the first female in the world to be on a full-time military team). With such an amazing career in the sport representing the nation at World Championships in all aspects of jumping, hundreds of demo jumps into some amazing venues.
She has been multiple national champion in Style, Accuracy, 4-Way, 8-Way and has won competitions both in the UK and USA in 8, 10 and 16-way competitions and won the Rhine Army Championships Open Event in 4-Way and Overall Individual accuracy. Working in USA on a full-time demo team, Firestone Team, jumping into a theme park out of a DC3 each evening, King’s Island, in OHIO, where the arena was the size of a boxing ring. And of course, her World Championship title becoming the first person in the world, male or female, to score 10 x 0.00cm on an Electronic measuring pad and going into the Guinness Book of World Records for doing so.
Watch the incredible story of Jackie Smith.
Jackie opened the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Meadowbank Stadium jumping the Scottish Saltire flag, escorted into the arena by the Royal Marines which was transmitted live (for the first-ever time) with an audience of 102 million viewers. Oh, and did we mention she BASE jumped off El Capitan in 1981 when BASE jumpers faced a BPA lifetime ban (the naughty girl that she was!).
A mother of two ‘men’ and grandmother of two little princesses. Having been awarded the Royal Aero Club ‘Gold, The Prince of Wales Cup, Inducted into the Skydiving Hall of Fame and awarded the Jim Crocker Sword as a Lifetime Achievement.