skydiver

A skydiver has achieved the unthinkable, he jumped out of a plane at 25,000 feet without a parachute and lived to tell about it. Luke Aikins relied solely on a giant net to stop him from what would’ve been instant death. Falling at 150 mph, he drifted off course at the start of his fall […]

Skydiver “Fearless Felix” Baumgartner has done it again. On Wednesday, Baumgartner took another stratospheric leap, this time from an altitude of more than 18 miles — an estimated 96,640 feet, nearly three times higher than cruising jetliners. He landed safely near Roswell, N.M. His top speed was an estimated 536 mph, said Brian Utley, an […]