Texas WWII Veteran, 106, Sets World Record With Skydiving Feat
WWII veteran Alfred Blaschke, 106, of Texas, sets Guinness World Record for oldest tandem skydiver, proving age is just a number.
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‘Fearless’ Felix Baumgartner Breaks Skydiving World Record, Sound Barrier
Austrian BASE-jumper Baumgartner, 43, broke a 52-year-old skydiving altitude record and the sound barrier by jumping out of a space capsule 128,100 feet above the Earth in Roswell, N.M. on Sunday.
An 80-Year-Old Woman Went Skydiving and Almost Slipped Out of Her Harness
Skydiving footage of an 80-year-old named Laverne is getting a bunch of attention online right now because her harness wasn't on tight enough and she almost slipped out of it in MID-AIR.
Skydiver Becomes the First to Land Without Parachute
BASE jumper Gary Connery of England has become the first man to skydive and land safely (this was required to claim the record) without deploying a parachute. How did he manage to pull that off? Well, the professional stuntman glided himself into a pile of cardboard boxes. 18,600 of them.
Hero of the Day: An 85-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Went Skydiving on His Birthday to Spite Hitler
It's time for my Hero of the Day. Gary Lenzner turned 85 last Sunday, and took the opportunity to celebrate in a pretty awesome way.