Bill Barlow

WILDWOOD — Sgt. Sloan Kanat’s parents don’t worry much that she jumps out of airplanes for a living.

Over the roar of the prop engines of a modified C-147 cargo plane and the wind through an open door in the back, she said both her parents are avid skydivers and that she took her first jump on her 18th birthday, as soon as she was legally allowed in the United States. She’s now 26.

“I’ve been skydiving for eight years. I’ve been with the Golden Knights for about a year. This is my first year on the demonstration team,” she said.

The team’s jump kicked off the Thunder Over the Waves airshow in Wildwood on Saturday, the first year for an event that tourism officials in the Wildwoods plan to host annually. A little more than 6,000 feet below, the rides on the Wildwood Boardwal

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