Leonor has broken her own record by becoming the first member of the Spanish royal family, male or female, to skydive. La Zarzuela released images this Tuesday of the Princess of Asturias in which she can be seen in the air, landing after jumping from a height of about four hundred meters from a training plane. A few weeks ago, the princess completed the basic parachuting course at the Méndez Parada Military Parachuting School, located at the Alcantarilla Air Base (Murcia), as a complement to the military training she is undertaking at the General Air and Space Academy (AGA) in San Javier.
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Neither King Felipe nor King Juan Carlos took the parachuting course during their military training and, consequently, have never jumped from a plane.
The confirmation that Princess Leonor had successfully completed the parachuting course came last Saturday during the Armed Forces Day parade held in Vigo. Military uniforms speak, and on the Princess’s uniform was pinned the rokiski, an emblem with a parachute engraved that certified her training. Shortly after, it was the King himself who publicly congratulated his heir for completing the course and making her first jumps.
It was Leonor who convinced her parents to take the parachuting course, to match her classmates at the AGA. For safety reasons, she could have avoided it but, in some way, both the princess and the King considered that not doing it could be interpreted as a privilege. The princess, very diligent, has done the same as is required of other students.
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Together with about fifty classmates from the AGA, Princess Leonor has trained to be able to perform automatic parachute jumps, just like other members of the various units with parachuting capability from the Air and Space Army, the Army, the Navy, and the Civil Guard do through this Basic Parachuting Course.
In the photographs and video footage, the preparatory training for the Princess of Asturias’s first automatic parachute jump can be seen, as well as other subsequent jumps—one of them at night—all carried out during last May. As a conclusion to this Basic Parachuting Course at the Alcantarilla Air Base, Princess Leonor, along with the rest of her classmates, received the diploma and the Paratrooper Hunter badge.
