Fate can be fickle. A pilot survives a plane crash against all odds, despite having no exit point from the crashing plane, no safe zone to land in, and two failed parachute deployments on the way down.
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64-year-old man on guest “joyride” in Air Force jet accidentally ejects himself from the plane.
Emergency ejection results in 40-minute ordeal as pilot is flung about inside a thunderstorm cloud.
The next time you feel like complaining about turbulence while flying aboard a commercial airlines, consider the situation Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Rankin survived after ejecting from his F-8 jet fighter that was flying Mach .82, at 47,000 feet, above a thunderstorm. To date, Rankin is the only known person to survive a fall through…
Felix breaks three world records and breaks the sound barrier with skydive jump from the edge of space [UPDATE]
Felix Baumgartner, Australian daredevil, successfully jumped from 128,100 feet (24 miles) above the Earth plunging 833.9 MPH (Mach 1.24) to break the sound barrier. Baumgartner rode in a special capsule and wore a 100 pound pressurized flight suit that protected him from the 70 degrees below zero temperature and kept his blood from vaporizing in…