This man should not be alive. A skydiver has somehow survived a 13,000-foot fall in what many are calling a “miracle.” Gerardo Flores, an experienced skydiver, was about 30 seconds into his free-fall jump when his parachute suddenly opened unexpectedly. Flores estimates that he was still about 13,000 feet above the ground when his parachute [...]
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If there was ever a moment when your life would flash before your eyes, this probably has to be it. Watch, as this skydivers primary parachute gets twisted up and fails, sending him spiraling out of control toward the earth. Fortunately, he had the presence of mind to ditch his primary chute and switch to [...]
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Laverne just turned 80, so to celebrate she’s decided to try skydiving. It almost turned out to be the last thing she ever did. Somehow, Laverne slipped out of her harness shortly after jumping out of the plane. Watch the other instructors scramble to save her as they go plummeting toward the earth. Fortunately, she [...]
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…and here come the parodies. Now that Felix Baumgartner has successfully set the record for the highest manned balloon flight and highest free-fall, the onslaught of parody videos has begun. First up is this offering, in which a fearless LEGO man makes a daring free-fall jump of his own. Will his chute deploy safely? Can [...]
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After all the dust had settled, Felix Baumgartner had broken three world records. After flying to an altitude of 128,100 feet in a helium-filled balloon, the daredevil completed a record-breaking jump from the edge of space. Felix reached a top speed of 833 mph through the near vacuum of the stratosphere before being slowed by [...]
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That strange Cincinnati UFO case has allegedly been solved. In recent days, the strange case of the Cincinnati lights had UFO fans in a frenzy, but it now looks as though the person who shot the initial video has found an answer. The eerie lights floating high above the sky were skydivers performing during a [...]
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Hot on the heels of his last successful jump, Felix Baumgartner has done it again. This time the Australian daredevil jumped from 18 miles high, or just about 96,000 feet above the earth. This was Baumgartner’s second test jump. His goal is to next month jump from 120,000 feet. That would break Joseph Kittinger’s world [...]
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British stuntman Gary Connery has achieved a world first, becoming the first skydiver in the world to land without using a parachute. Connery jumped 2,400 feet from a helicopter using a specially adapted wing suit. He jumped from the chopper, fell 2,400 feet, and landed in a pad made up of empty cardboard boxes. Connery [...]
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