While Setting the Highest Parachute Jump Record, He Severed His Chute Cords
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While Setting the Highest Parachute Jump Record, He Severed His Chute Cords
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Could you imagine skydiving with your parachute open and then grabbing the cords to the chute, pulling a machete from your pocket, and severing all the cords, resulting in you “free falling” through the air? The aeronaut daredevil featured in this episode did this routinely 100 years ago at carnivals. The “highest flyer on earth” rode a rudimentary hot air balloon 10,000 feet in the air, and then jumped
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