"Langhorne's skydiving

mayor swoops

in for a perfect landing"

Left to Right: Mayor, Paul, and Tracey

The following article, written by Jeff Werner for the Bucks County Advance appeared in the Friday, May 7th newspaper.  For the full article or to view the video of Tracey and Paul Cramer and the Mayor skydiving, please go to BucksLocalNews.com!  Tracey and Paul, owners of the Langhorne Coffee House, having been married by the Mayor of Langhorne, Chris Blaydon, decided to celebrate their wedding anniversary with him by skydiving together. 

Langhorne Borough Mayor Chris Blaydon spent his career at the controls of major commercial jet airliners. Jumping out was never an option.


“I always wanted to do this,” he said. “I’ve been up in a sailplane, a glider and an ultra-light. I’ve sailed a boat to Bermuda and kayaked the Delaware. I ran for office. This was one more thing on my Bucket List that I had to do,” he said.

The opportunity presented itself during a conversation he was having with the owners of the Langhorne Coffee House, Tracey Dornisch-Cramer and Paul Cramer, whom he married two years ago at the Mayor’s Playground.

For their first anniversary, they had taken an airplane ride to Dorney Park in Allentown. The mayor piloted the plane. They had won the ride in a Rotary raffle.

“The mayor wanted to know what we were doing for our second anniversary and the mayor suggested skydiving,” said Tracey. The three soon had plans for a joint outing.

“I performed their wedding two years ago so we figured it would be great for the bride, groom and mayor to all go up to celebrate their anniversary,” said Blaydon. “I also figured if George Bush Sr. can jump out of a plane at 75, I can do it at 76,” he said.

So on Friday the mayor took to the skies. This time, however, he would be coming back to earth via parachute after free falling thousands of feet through the air.


Moments later someone spotted a tiny dot in the crystal blue sky, about 15,000 feet up and about two and a half miles from the airport. For between six and seven minutes, the mayor hurtled to the earth below. Soon, a colorful array of parachutes began appearing in the sky.

“There he is,” yelled someone, as the mayor’s brightly colored chute came into view, gliding in for a perfect landing on a patch of grass at the end of the runway.

Blaydon described the experience. “All the sudden you’re dropping. The wind is going by. You’re dropping, dropping, dropping. Then you’re in the chute,” he said. “Great day for it. Wonderful view. You couldn’t have asked for a better day for this.

But Blaydon said, “I think I’d rather fly airplanes. It was great. I enjoyed it. I had to do it. I did it. Now you guys are next,” he said pointing to Tracey and Paul.

About 20 minutes later, the coffee shop owners were back on the ground after their anniversary jump.

“As I got out of the plane I already had a thought for next year,” said Tracey. “Hot air balloon ride,” she said.

“That’s good. That’s good,” said Blaydon.

“The four of us will go on a hot air balloon ride,” Tracey said to Mary Blaydon.

“We could keep this going,” she said. “See, we already have next year planned.”

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