History

The Parachutists Over Phorty Society or POPS is a club for skydivers
over the age of forty. The first POPS was founded in 1966 in the USA
and has spread to many countries around the world. POPS clubs hold
regular meets in their own countries, and every two years hold a
World meet. World meets have taken place in Australia, USA, Spain,
Jordan, Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland and the USA again.
The next World POPS Meet will take place in July 2012 in Teuge / Netherlands. Competitions at meets include accuracy, formation skydiving
and the special POPS competition the Hit and Rock.

Membership requirements are that a person has made a parachute jump,
or a tandem skydive, and is over forty years of age. An smaller group
within POPS is the SOS - Skydivers over Sixty, JOS - Skydivers over Seventy
and there even some JOES - Jumpers Over Eighty.