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Speed flying and speed riding are recreational and competitive adventure sports of flying lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure. They are similar to sports to paragliding , but have smaller wings, higher flying speeds, and flightpaths descending close to a mountain slope.
Betty Skelton Frankman Erde (June 28, 1926 – August 31, 2011) was a land speed record holder and aerobatics pilot who set 17 aviation and automobile records. [1] She was known as "The First Lady of Firsts", [2] and helped create opportunities for women in aviation, auto racing, astronautics, and advertising.
F1 Academy is a female-only, Formula 4-level single-seater racing championship founded by the Formula One Group.The championship is a spec series, meaning that all teams compete with an identical Tatuus F4-T421 chassis and tyre compounds developed by Pirelli.
Riding a motorcycle off the edge of a cliff is not the only death-defying stunt Tom Cruise pulls off in the upcoming “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.” A new featurette on the ...
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In 1906, Dorothy Levitt broke the women's world speed record for the flying kilometer, recording a speed of 91 mph (146.25 km/h) and receiving the sobriquet the "Fastest Girl on Earth". She drove a six-cylinder Napier motorcar, a 100 hp (74.6 kW) development of the K5, in a speed trial in Blackpool. [8] [9] [10]
In 2013, Anthony Bourdain took a ride with the Speed Sisters in his Emmy award-winning series Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, which aired on CNN. [6] It was the second episode of the second season, titled Jerusalem. In 2015, the documentary film Speed Sisters was released, which details the exploits of the racing crew. [7]
A demonic California dad has been arrested for allegedly beheading his 1-year-old son Friday in an early-morning frenzy of violence that also injured his wife and her mother, according to police.