St. Luke’s Physician Pursues Skydiving World Record

When he isn’t taking care of patients at St. Luke’s Walbert Avenue Primary Care in Allentown, Dr. Frank Matrone enjoys jumping out of airplanes.

This week he hopes to secure a new spot in the skydiving record books.

Dr. Matrone and his son, Dominic, are in Lake Wales, Fla., making final preparations for a global canopy formation skydiving world-record attempt. Skydivers from 19 countries will team with the Matrones to try to complete a parachute formation of 107-plus skydivers.

Dr. Matrone is part of the current global canopy formation record of 100 skydivers. That record was set in 2007, when Dominic was 9 years old…

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