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He held the world record for the highest skydive—102,800 feet (31.3 km)—from 1960 until 2012. [1] [2] He participated in the Project Manhigh and Project Excelsior high-altitude balloon flight projects from 1956 to 1960 and was the first man to fully witness the curvature of the Earth.
Luke Aikins (born November 21, 1973) [1] is an American professional skydiver, BASE jumper, pilot, and aerial photographer.He is the first person to intentionally dive from mid-tropospheric altitude and land safely without a parachute or a wingsuit and the second skydiver to intentionally jump and safely land without using a parachute.
It also got him the world record for oldest person to tandem skydive (meaning he was connected to a skydiving instructor). He did his third and most recent jump with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, on Nov ...
Felix Baumgartner (German: [ˈfeːlɪks ˈbaʊ̯mˌɡaʁtnɐ]; born 20 April 1969) is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper. [1] He is widely known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon from the stratosphere on 14 October 2012 and landing in New Mexico, United States, as part of the Red Bull Stratos project.
Adrian Nicholas (4 March 1962 – 17 September 2005) was a British skydiver who completed more than 8,000 jumps in 30 countries. He is best known for his successful test in July 2000 of Leonardo da Vinci 's (1452–1519) parachute design, proving it to be in retrospect the world's first working parachute. [ 1 ]
A plane carrying four Canadian skydivers made an emergency landing on a beach in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on Sunday, the state civil defense's office said, resulting in the death of a ...
A 73-year-old man has died following a skydiving accident in Arizona. The Eloy Police Department said Terry Gardner and three friends were embarking on their third jump of the day around noon on ...
British skydiver who landed in snow in Russia. Broke back and rib, but was walking within a week. [1] Victoria Cilliers: 4,000 1,219 2015 Survived a murder attempt [12] Ryōyū Kobayashi: 954 291 [13] [14] 2024 This is the unofficial world record for the longest ski jump (hosted by Red Bull), 291m. [15] The event occurred on April the 24th. [16 ...