Jumping From Airplanes

A guy walked into the student newspaper office and asked “does anybody want to jump out of an airplane?”
Without a moment’s hesitation, I said “I’m your man.” It was only afterwards that I confirmed a parachute would be involved.
Well, that was ten years ago (can’t you tell, I look young — young!), but the video [...]

Morbidly Curiouser

Zach saw my story about plane crashes and forwarded me a link to this video of an early parachutist he found on Damn Interesting.
The connection to yesterday’s story is that the video ends with cops measuring the depth of the crater the jumper left after falling almost 1000 feet from the top of the [...]