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Queenstown adventure company takes adventure
Queenstown :: South Africa | 2 days ago
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Queenstown, landing high in a stunningly beautiful remote valley where 42-year-old Chuck will prepare for his jump...It’s a heart-stopping moment that Chuck wants to share with like-minded adventure lovers. “Have you ever imagined what it must be like...
Tags: base jump, Queenstown, South Africa, Chuck, Jump, Parachuting, BASE jumping
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New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Louisiana got its earliest snowflakes ever as people across the South awakened to a dusting of powder. Snow started falling in the region late Friday and continued into Saturday morning. Snow also caused a few cancellations Saturday at Washington's Dulles...
Tags: New Orleans, Pinal County Arizona, Cell site, Arizona, Casa Grande Arizona, Parachuting, Law Crime, Sonoran Desert, Phoenix Arizona, Waco Texas, Tucson Arizona
Parachute jump goes fatally wrong
Johannesburg :: South Africa | 6 days ago
Credibility A man participating in the 5th FAI World Cup of Canopy Piloting died in a parachute accident in Carletonville, west of Johannesburg on Thursday, the Parachute Association of SA said. Spokesperson Mark Bellingan said the 36-year-old Russian team member...
Tags: canopy piloting, Johannesburg, South Africa, Parachute, Parachuting, Disaster Accident
A history of wingsuit flight
Casablanca :: Morocco | 8 days ago
Credibility Cleric Eilmer Malmesbury, also known as Elmer the Flying Monk, builds a set of wings and jumps from the west tower of Malmesbury Abbey...Franz Reichelt, also known as The Flying Tailor, leaps from the Eiffel Tower in a homemade wingsuit.
Tags: wingsuit jumps, Morocco, Casablanca, Wingsuit flying, Patrick de Gayardon, Skysurfing, Jeb Corliss, Parachuting, BASE jumping, Clem Sohn, Franz Reichelt
Man’s Attempt To Fly On Jet-Powered Wings Fails
Madrid :: Spain | 10 days ago
Credibility A rescuer helicopter winched Yves Rossy to safety from the wind-swept Atlantic. Rossy, a 50-year-old former fighter pilot, had taken off from Tangiers but five minutes into what was supposed to be a 15-minute flight he vanished from TV screens providing...
Tags: Yves Rossy, Stuart Sterzel, powered wing, Spain, Madrid, Malfunction, Water landing, Rossy, Yves, Parachuting, Helicopters
Skydiver dead after 13th jump
Sydney :: Australia | 11 days ago
Credibility Police said the 41-year-old encountered a problem with his parachute yesterday over Picton, south-west of Sydney. The man suffered severe head injuries and died at the scene, shortly after noon. ''The parachute may not have deployed properly, or may not...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Parachute, Parachuting, Disaster Accident, Human Interest
One of the first US 'crazies'
Missoula :: MT :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility Cooley, one of the first two men to parachute from an aircraft to fight a forest fire in what has become a well-used practice in the United States, has died in Missoula, Montana...The lines of Cooley's parachute tangled on that first jump on July 12,...
Tags: EARL Cooley, US Forest Service, smoke jumper, Montana University, Montanans, Missoula, Smokejumper, Wildfire, Firefighting, Aerial firefighting, Parachute, Wildland fire suppression, Parachuting, Firefighting in the United States
"Fusionman" vows to fly again despite setback
Casablanca :: Morocco | 14 days ago
Credibility Rossy, an airline captain and ex-fighter pilot, was rescued from the chilly Strait of Gibraltar waters near Morocco after heavy turbulence and visibility problems forced him to ditch in the sea on Wednesday during his flight to southern Spain. He started...
Tags: gibraltar, english channel, tangier, Yves Rossy, jet pack, powered wing, Spain, rocket man, Morocco, Strait of Gibraltar, Casablanca, Rossy, Parachuting, Yves, Parachute, Water landing, Disaster Accident, Discount stores, Aviation history, Roman Polanski, Helicopter, Franchises, Aircraft, Aerodynamics, Icarus, Mogadishu, Mumbai attacks, Wing, Somalia, Jet engine, Western Europe
Breckenridge man joins wingsuit flock for U.S. record
Breckenridge :: TX :: USA | 16 days ago
Credibility Repton joined a flock of 68 wingsuit pilots this month to pierce a U.S. record above Southern California. A local guy joined a flock of 68 wingsuit pilots who descended like flying squirrels in a diamond formation this month to pierce a U.S. record above...
Tags: Simon Repton, wingsuit piloting, U.S, Breckenridge, Parachute, Parachuting, Wingsuit flying, Repton
Mystery lights pass over Moutere area
Wellington :: New Zealand | 16 days ago
Credibility 00 23/11/2009 No-one used the word UFO but the lights seen in the sky over Upper Moutere, near Nelson, last night are definitely unidentified. Several people reported seeing balls of fire in the sky about 9.30pm, with Matiu Noakes saying he saw nine,...
Tags: Upper Moutere, Nelson Science Society, Nelson Airport, New Zealand, Wellington, Parachuting, Motueka, Tasman Region, Nelson New Zealand
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