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WATCH: Man Skydives 70 Times On His 70th Birthday For Charity

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 08.16.2012 | Impact
Read More: Plane, Golden Parachute, Larry Ekstrom Skydive, Charity, Larry Ekstrom, Airplane, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Greatest Person of the Day, Skydiving, Leader Dogs for the Blind, Michigan, Skydiver, Parachute, Impact News

Larry Ekstrom could have hosted a bake sale or something to raise money for charity. But the Madison, Mich., senior just isn't the type. Instead, E...

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TERRIFYING VIDEO: 80-Year-Old Nearly Falls Out Of Harness While Skydiving

Posted 05.26.2012 | Weird News
Read More: Skydiving Accident, 80 Year Old Skydiver, Tandem Skydiving, Video, Parachute Accident, Sky Diving, Laverne Skydiving, Skydiving, Parachute, Laverne Everett, Bill Dause, Parachute Center, Weird News News

Laverne Everett may have had 79 previous birthdays, but it's fair to say that this one was probably the worst. To celebrate her 80th last May, the ...

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Death-Defying BASE Jumper, Christopher Brewer, Amazingly Survives 900 Foot Fall

editorial.huffingtonpost.com | Rehema Trimiew | Posted 12.20.2011 | Sports
Read More: Wingsuit Jumping, Video, Wingsuit, Base Jumping, Wingsuit Base Jumping, Parachute, Bridge, West Virginia, Sports News

At the 32nd Annual Bridge Day Celebration in Fayetteville, West Virginia, 100,000 onlookers gathered to watch the 750 BASE jumps allowed once a year. ...

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WATCH: Austria's 73-Year-Old President Jumps With Parachute From Helicopter

AP | Posted 12.19.2011 | World
Read More: Heinz Fischer Austria, Helicopter, Austria, Video, Skydiving, Heinz Fischer Skydive, Parachute, Heinz Fischer Skydiving, Heinz Fischer, World News

VIENNA -- Austria's president was in free fall – and no, it was not about a loss in popularity. President Heinz Fischer's office has released a...

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WATCH: Pace Gallery's Breathtaking Parachute Installation

VernissageTV | Posted 11.26.2011 | Arts
Read More: The Pace Gallery, Carsten Nicolai, New York Art Openings, Contemporary Art, Pioneer, Parachute, New York, Art Exhibitions, Pionier, Noto, Alva Noto Art, Alva Noto, Arts News
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The German artist Carsten Nicolai is known for his works that are located between art and science. At The Pace Gallery in New York he presents two wor...

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WATCH: Woman Claims To Be Niece Of 70s Skyjacker D.B. Cooper, Throwing Light On Unsolved Mystery

ABC/Huffington Post | Posted 10.03.2011 | Crime
Read More: Tacoma, Tsa, Most Wanted, Fbi, Hijacking, Washington State, Boeing 727, Parachute, Good Morning America, D.B. Cooper, Video, Crime News

On Nov. 24, 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient flight from Portland, Ore. to Seattle, Wash., collected $200,000 in ran...

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Police: Man Parachuted Off 25-Story Downtown Building

Posted 06.04.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Base Jumping, Shaun Walters, Downtown Parachuting, Chicago, Illinois, Skydiving, Parachuting, Loop Parachuting, Parachute, Chicago News

When Shaun Walters fell in love with skydiving, he fell hard. "I remember the first time I went skydiving - it was Feb. 9, 2005 in New Zealand," he...

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Mayor Of Philadelphia Suburb Dies In Skydiving Accident

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Pennsylvania, Faa, Federal Aviation Administration, Skydiving-Accident, Philadelphia, Skydiving, Cross Keys Airport, Parachute, Carter Scott Shields, Rutledge Pennsylvania, Freefall Adventures, Monroe-Township, Politics News

MONROE TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- The mayor of a suburban Philadelphia town has been killed in a skydiving accident in southern New Jersey. The Gloucester (GL...

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Els Clottemans, Belgian Skydiver Who Doctored Parachute Of Love Rival, Gets 30 Years

AP | ROBERT WIELAARD | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Belgium, Parachute, Els Clottemans, Skydiver, Belgian Skydiver, Els Van Doren, Skydiving, World News

BRUSSELS — A jealous schoolteacher who doctored the parachute of a love rival causing her to plunge to her death was sentenced to 30 years in pr...

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Powerchuting in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona

Margie Goldsmith | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Read More: Camelback Mountain. Lake Pleasant, Pilot Randy Long, Sonoran Desert, Pinnacle Peak, Powerchuting. Scottsdale, Luke Skywalker, Canyoneering in Salome Canyon, Certified Sport Pilot, Parachute, Deer Valley Airport Observation Tower, Travel News
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"Keep going, all the way back," he says. I do it and we don't stall. We're idling and floating at 28 miles per hour, almost like a hot air balloon. This is what the Wright brothers must have felt when they glided over Kitty Hawk.

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Teen Stranded On Ice Floe With Polar Bears Is Rescued By Parachuters

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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CORAL HARBOUR, Nunavut — Battling hypothermia, a 17-year-old hunter stranded on a floating chunk of ice shot and killed a polar bear while trapp...

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What The F**K Happened To Rock And Roll? (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Linkin Park, Video, Rock Music, Chris Daughtry, Nickelback, Rock Sucks, Infomania, Funny Videos, White Hot Top 5, Parachute, The Fray, Comedy News

This is a good question. When did rock become the douchiest genre of music? When did Nickelback, Parachute, The Fray, Chris Daughtry, and Linkin Park ...

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