Who needs a parachute after jumping from a helicopter? Not Gary Connery! During a wingsuit run, the daredevil chose to forgo his parachute and chose to break his fall with a pile of cardboard boxes. Seriously. This guy just fell 2,400 feet out of the sky and only used cardboard boxes to ...
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Who needs a parachute to go skydiving when you can just float doawn with a giant umbrella, Mary Poppins style? Skydiver Erik Roner tests the floating umbrella theory popular from the musical when he jumps from a hot air balloon. It turns out you wouldn't want to rely on the umbrella getting you ...
READ MORE +Remember when the only way to skydive was to get in an airplane and jump out of it? It was one of the most extreme things a person could do at the time and struck fear into anyone with a fear of heights. After that there came other ways to fly through the air without the landing killing you ...
READ MORE +Skydiving isn't for the faint of heart, but it takes a different breed of adrenaline junky to wingsuit over a highly active volcano. Roberta Mancino has dreamt of doing such a flyover for years, finally realizing that dream when she recently zoomed over Chile's Villarrica stratovolcano and through ...
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