Prince Harry just jumped out of a plane in Ontario

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's on-again, off-again English royal Prince Harry, who just successfully landed a hair-raising skydive in Cookstown, Ontario.

Used to high speeds and even higher altitudes from a decade spent serving in the British Army as a Forward Air Controller and Apache helicopter pilot, including two tours in Afghanistan, seeing the world from above is nothing new for Harry.

Watching the ground get closer and closer as he free-fell with just a parachute to slow the descent, on the other hand, is a whole other thing.

The jump wasn't a mere adrenaline hit, though. It served as a fundraiser for Sunnybrook and the True Patriot Love Foundation, which are both dedicated to supporting veterans and active members of the Canadian military.

And while Harry's leap was impressive (particularly to those, like me, who prefer to see the world from little more than 5 feet up), it pales in comparison to that of the man who inspired the jump altogether.

"When Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, met 102-year-old World War II Veteran Ed Marshall last year, they quickly bonded over their shared experience of military service and the way they have continued to serve their communities," a press release about Harry's jump reads.

What really blew the royal away, though, was learning that Marshall, who served as a paratrooper in the Second World War, had done a skydive for charity of his own, just two years earlier, on his 100th birthday.

"The idea stuck, and together, they devised a plan for another jump."

The result: Harry's big jump of Sept. 25, 2026. Though Marshall's doctors advised him against jumping again, his grandson, Bailey, accompanied the royal in the leap.

While the jump is now complete, and judging by the way Harry fell to his knees and kissed the ground upon landing, we probably won't see the Duke of Sussex take flight again any time soon; you can still donate to Sunnybrook and True Patriot Love through their websites.