WASECA, Minn. -- A small-engine airplane cruises 2,500 feet above the ground when the door flies open. Little can be done to prepare for this moment, when the sky fills the cabin with wind. Even veteran skydivers say the first adrenaline rush comes when the door opens.

The second rush is jumping. That’s what Cory Hanna is here to do - for the 32nd time.

Hanna, 42, positions himself under the wing to make a last check of wind direction. He dives for the ground.

Viewed from above, his figure becomes terrifyingly small, even as his chute opens and feathers him toward an endless expanse of corn, townscape and trees. His landing is soft. Someone helps remove his parachute and strap on a new one.

The airplane has landed and is moving into place for another run. Jump No. 32 is in the books. Only 68 jumps to go.

“The stamina part won’t be so bad,” Hanna said at the airfield the day prior, as he was wrapping up nine months of preparation for his record-breaking feat. “It’s more of a mental thing.”

One hundred jumps in one day was his goal. And when his feet finally touched ground for the 100th time around 7:45 p.m. to a roaring wave of applause, he became Minnesota's record-holder for skydives in a 24-hour period.

Hanna, a member of the Waseca-based Minnesota Skydivers Club, had another goal in mind.