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  2. Albert Berry (parachutist) - Wikipedia

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    Albert Berry (born March 1, 1878, date of death unknown) [citation needed] was one of two people credited as the first person to make a successful parachute jump from a powered airplane. Berry made his pioneering jump on March 1, 1912, in St. Louis, Missouri, leaping from a Benoist pusher biplane. [1] [2] [3]

  3. Who exactly is Geronimo -- and why do we say his name ... - AOL

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    The night before the big jump, the soldiers went out on the town for drinks, a movie, and more drinks. The movie they most likely saw was Geronimo, a western film about the Apache Indian chief of ...

  4. Tiny Broadwick - Wikipedia

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    Broadwick ready to drop from a Martin T airplane piloted by Glenn Martin.. Georgia Ann "Tiny" Thompson Broadwick (April 8, 1893 in Oxford, North Carolina – August 25, 1978 in Long Beach, California), [1] [2] or Georgia Broadwick, previously known as Georgia Jacobs, and later known as Georgia Brown, was an American pioneering parachutist and the inventor of the ripcord. [3]

  5. Luke Aikins - Wikipedia

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    Luke Aikins (born November 21, 1973) [1] is an American professional skydiver, BASE jumper, pilot, and aerial photographer.He is the first person to intentionally dive from mid-tropospheric altitude and land safely without a parachute or a wingsuit and the second skydiver to intentionally jump and safely land without using a parachute.

  6. A day that shocked the world: Photos capture stunned planet ...

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    Spectators look up as the World Trade Center goes up in flames September 11, 2001 in New York City after two airplanes slammed into the twin towers in an alleged terrorist attack.

  7. Highest falls survived without a parachute - Wikipedia

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    Image Distance of fall Date Notes and References Feet Meters Vesna Vulović: 33,330 10,160 [1] 1972 Flight attendant from Serbia who was the sole survivor of an airplane bombing mid-air. Likely landed in part of fuselage in heavily wooded and snow-covered mountainside. Suffered many bone fractures. [1] [2] [3] Luke Aikins: 25,000 [4] 7,620 2016

  8. Elon Musk’s photo from Trump’s rally has the internet in ...

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    Social media users jumped online to capture Elon Musk’s big on-stage moment at former president Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday.. On October 5, the the world’s wealthiest man joined the ...

  9. High-altitude military parachuting - Wikipedia

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    United States Air Force Pararescuemen jump at half the height of a typical HALO/HAHO insertion 2eme REP Legionnaires HALO jump from a C-160.. High-altitude military parachuting, or military free fall (MFF), is a method of delivering military personnel, military equipment, and other military supplies from a transport aircraft at a high altitude via free-fall parachute insertion.