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World Record for Fastest Text Messaging While Skydiving
A group of high-flying daredevils gave new meaning to Extreme Text Messaging, as 10 skydivers for Samsung Mobile attempted to set a Guinness World Record for fastest text messaging while skydiving. The team of professional skydivers text messaged while freefalling from 12,000 feet outside the Los Angeles city limits at the Samsung Mobile XTREME TEXTING [...]
Worlds Most Bizarre and Intriguing Hot Air Balloons
As the oldest successful form of human-carrying flight technology, the ingenious application of basic scientific principles for hot air balloons have transcended from the centuries-old creations to use for recreation and sport today. Festivals and competitions have spawned a wide array of contraptions from inventive forms of advertising to some of the most bizarre and [...]
Daredevil Makes History Flying the English Channel on Jetpack
Swiss daredevil Yves Rossy — known as “Fusion Man” and “Jet-man” — made history today when he flew from France to England to be the first person to cross the English Channel using nothing more than a jetpack strapped to his back.
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Jumping from a plane at more than 8,800 feet (2,500 [...]
Worlds Most Incredible Extreme Sports Stunts
Be it for claim to fame or the thrill of achievement, there are plenty of people that risk life and limb to perform jaw-dropping stunts for incredible feats which are highly choreographed and rigorously rehearsed for hours, days, and even weeks before a performance, as onlookers watch the madcap attempts in awe and amazement.
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Dirty Play for Mud Soccer World Championships
Thousands of men and women alike flocked to bog-fields in the spirit of sportsmanship of dirty play, barely able to move an inch in the knee to waist-deep mud at the 10th annual Mud Soccer World Championships for what was more like mud carnival revelry in pig pens than a fundamental world cup outside the [...]
Wingsuit Flyer Faster Than Speeding Plane
With nothing more than a wingsuit and helmet, BASE jumper Ueli Gegenschatz — aka ‘Sputnik’ — leapt out of a plane at 14,763 feet (4500 meters) in the air and flew unaided for 10.9 miles (17.6 kilometers) over Galway Bay, Ireland earlier this week, beating a local plane to the airport, and garnering the world [...]
