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. 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 and is over forty years of age.
An smaller group within POPS is the SOS - Skydivers over Sixty - and there even some JOES - Jumpers Over Eighty.
POPS clubs hold regular meets in their own countries, and every two years hold a World meet. World meets have taken place

- 1989 Australia
- 1993 Umatila, Florida USA, Skydive Orlando
- 1995 Ampuriabrava in Spain, Centro de Paracaidismo de Costa Brava
- 1997 Aqaba in Jordan, Royal Jordanian Parachute Club
- 1999 Chilliwack, Canada
- 2002 Matamata in New Zealand
- 2004 Gruyere in Switzerland
- 2006 Eloy, Arizona USA, Skydive Arizona
- 2008 Toogoolawah, Australia, Skydive Ramblers
- 2010 in Reggio Emilia, Italy

and 2012 in Teuge, Netherlands

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