In 1958, two Tech students jumped out of a plane and passed a baton during freefall. Steve Snyder and Charles Hillard, Jr. were the first people to perform such a feat in the United States. Soon a whole new discipline of skydiving developed: formation or relative flying, where jumpers form groups in the air, making a sequence of formations within a time limit.
About a decade later, Tech’s Sport Parachute Club was formed in 1969, one of the oldest collegiate skydiving clubs in the nation. Over the years, Collegiate National medals have been won; world records have been set and many alumni have stayed involved in the sport.