Tag Archives: skydiving
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New Chest Cam Footage Lets You Experience Felix Baumgartner’s Space Jump From His Point Of View (Video)
This Felix Baumgartner world record skydiving story just keeps on giving and giving. Yesterday we gave you the record-breaking details along with a couple of videos released by the Red Bull Stratos Team. And today we have another amazing video. You see, it turns out that the one thing the Red Bull Stratos team was [...]
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Felix Baumgartner Became The First Human Being To Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Sound Yesterday (Video)
In the fall of 2010, a Brooklyn cinematographer scored a YouTube hit by using a weather balloon to send his iPhone into the stratosphere with an HD camera. Then, last November, two dudes sent a can of Natty Light up there and claimed it was the first beer in space (which is highly unlikely). Finally, [...]
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Austrian Skydiver Set To Break Skydiving World Record On October 8 (Video)
On August 16, 1960, a man named Joseph Kittinger set the current world record for highest parachute jump and fastest human free-fall through the atmosphere when he jumped from the basket of a helium balloon at 102,800 feet and reached a speed of 614 mph. His excuse? He was a Captain in the United States [...]
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Picture Of The Day: Skydiving Pug Has More Exciting Life Than You
If you ask me, taking your dog along with you when you go skydiving is just asking for trouble. And I’m not talking about danger, here. You’re not putting old fido in any more danger than you’re putting yourself. No, what I’m talking about are the dog’s expectations out of life. You see, my dog [...]
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Picture Of The Day – Skydiving Past a Space Shuttle Launch
With the World Cup starting, what’s better than a picture of some world renowned divers? Okay, this isn’t a picture of soccer players taking a dive, it’s actually some sky divers. This picture captures six, or seven, sky divers falling from the sky as a rocket takes launch into space in the distance. The sky [...]
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Brian Vickers Makes Pit Stop In Times Square
Total Pro Sports – Known for its extremely busy streets, Time Square is hardly the place to be making making a pit stop. Even those asleep at the wheel for a second are forced to bear the brunt of several horns. What type of response would a full 20 second stop receive? How about a [...]
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Skydiver Falls 6000ft Without Parachute And Survives
Total Pro Sports - 31 year old, mechanical engineer from Tamworth, Staffs, James Boole is lucky to be alive. Filming a stunt that went horribly wrong, James thought he was going to die after he crashed onto the snow-covered mountain in Russia after jumping 6000 feet from an airplane. The accident occurred while James Boole [...]
