Tag: DAREDEVIL

For one daredevil, even the sky is not a limit. According to Fox News, Felix Baumgartner's jump later this year from 23-miles (or 120,000-feet) up in the air will make him the first parachutist to ever break the sound barrier. He'll fly toward Earth at speeds of 760-mph wearing a custom-made, supersonic suit. This attempt to set the record for the world's highest free fall is part of the Red Bull ...

Share Anyone can freeze themselves in a commodious block of ice dangling stories above Times Square, right? But how many people can survive in a steel coffin -- and have the psychological courage to livestream the experience to the entire world? One man, at least, is willing to give it a shot. Tim Shaw, a broadcast personality in the U.K., is determined to out-Blaine David Blaine by locking ...

Well, Yves Rossy, the idiot (or genius, depending on how you look at it) who planned to strap himself to a rocket-powered carbon-fiber wing and fly across the English Channel, successfully made his record-breaking flight across the notoriously chilly body of water yesterday without plummeting to his death. The Swiss daredevil completed his 22-mile, 12-minute, jet-pack-powered flight without ...