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Fatalities from wingsuit flying have occurred almost from the inception of the sport. Listed below are notable examples where wingsuit pilots were publicly named in the press, including when wingsuit practice was not the first cause of death. This incomplete list is frequently updated to include new information. Date Name Age Location Details 4 February 1912 Franz Reichelt 33 France The ...
A fadeaway or fall-away in basketball is a jump shot taken while jumping backwards, away from the basket. The goal is to create space between the shooter and the defender, making the shot much harder to block. The shooter must have very good accuracy, much higher than when releasing a regular jump shot, and must use more strength to counteract ...
Dwain Weston (31 January 1973 – 5 October 2003) was an Australian skydiver, BASE jumper, wingsuiter and software developer. On 5 October 2003, at the end of the inaugural Go Fast Games, Weston died while attempting to fly over the Royal Gorge Bridge near Cañon City, Colorado, United States.
Shot put: Murder-suicide of his wife. [5] 11 Nov 1950: Les McKeand Australia: 26: Triple jump, javelin throw: Car crash. [6] 26 Aug 1951: Jakob Jutz Switzerland: 35-36: Marathon: Suffered heart failure while running the 1951 Swiss Marathon Championships. [7] 2 Aug 1960: Bob Gutowski United States: 25: Pole vault: Car accident. [8] 11 Dec 1962 ...
The jump area was part of a busy corridor for Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. [15] Allan Homestead, a major in the U.S. Air Force who was to be one of the two 30,000-foot jumpers, contacted Cleveland five hours prior to the jump and was told to expect substantial cloud cover but with gaps for jumping. [16]
The film was inspired by Tad Friend's 2003 article titled "Jumpers", written for The New Yorker magazine. [91] The film crew shot almost 10,000 hours of footage, recording 23 of the known 24 suicides off the bridge in 2004. [92] [93] In his article for The New Yorker, Friend wrote, "Survivors often regret their decision in midair, if not before ...
A 7-foot-1-inch (2.16 m) and 260-pound (120 kg) center, [1] Chamberlain was in his third season in the NBA, having set season scoring records in each of his first two seasons with 37.6 and then 38.4 points per game. [2] Frank McGuire, the Warriors' new coach, started the season vowing to get the ball to Chamberlain "two-thirds of the time."
The advertisement for daredevil Sam Patch's fatal last jump. Sam Patch (1799 [1] – November 13, 1829; some sources believed his birth year to be 1807) was known as "The Jersey Jumper", "The Daring Yankee", [2] or the "Yankee Leaper" [3] became the first famous American daredevil after successfully jumping from a raised platform into the Niagara River near the base of Niagara Falls in 1829.