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Remember when joining the Mile High Club simply meant doing the deed in an airplane bathroom? Yeah, well that’s so 1997. Today the bar has been raised. Now, if you want to join the Mile High Club, you have to get it on while jumping out of a plane at 13,000 feet.
Who do we have to thank for this escalation in sexual adventurism? Skydiving instructor and pornographic actor Alex Torres, a.k.a. “Voodoo”.
You see, apparently Mr. Torres doesn’t make enough money to make ends meet in the porn biz, so on weekends he moonlights as a skydiving instructor. One day, he had a brilliant idea: why not make a video of people having sex while free-falling at 120 MPH?
Of course, Torres would star in the video, and he got the skydiving company’s secretary—a woman named Hope Howell—to join him in the act. They filmed the event, put the video up on the internet and, it seemed, viral video history would soon be made.
The authorities, however, were not too happy with the stunt. Turns out, it’s illegal to do anything on a plane that might reasonably distract the pilot. And since Torres and Howell started knocking boots before they jumped out of the plane, they may be in some serious hot water. As a result of these impending legal issue, Mr. Torres had to take the video down.
Sgt. Adam Sniffen from the 101st Airborne Division delivers the game ball via parachute before the Michigan vs. MSU game at Michigan Stadium on Oct. 9, 2010.
Link to this video Miles Daisher turned the extreme sport of skydiving on its head after deciding to jump out of a plane in equipment normally used only in water.
Mr Daisher then swoops in at 50mph and lands on the water in spectacular fashion.
His antics are showcased in a new 3D film on skydiving, BASE jumping, wingsuit flying and Skyaking.
The 40-year-old, from Twin Falls, Idaho, decided to put a twist into has favourite pastime when looking for new ideas to take it even more extreme.
These pictures 13,000 feet Above Ground Level (AGL) over beautiful Lake Tahoe show his efforts.
"It took us nearly a year before we could get our wish to come true as no one was really looking to throw a kayak out of an aeroplane.
"To begin with we did it off a 600ft bridge on a static line, and landed in Feather River, California."
Static lines connect the jumper to the point they are jumping from – such as a plane or in Mr Daisher's case the bridge – and automatically pulls their parachute as they fall away.
He said: "A year later I got permission to jump out of an aeroplane and so since that time I have jumped out of four different aircraft, including a helicopter.
"We have taken it all over the world from Mexico to Abu Dhabi and I have been Skyaking for nearly eight years now."
Over the years the father-of-two and his team have slowly perfected the art of Skyaking.
"There are a lot of things that can go wrong in skyaking and so you have to be prepared," he said.
"In skyaking I usually put the chute quite high. With skydives I will pull at 2,000 ft above the ground whereas with skyaking I will pull at 5,000 ft above the ground in case anything starts to go a little crazy.
"That way I have a time to sort things out, get out of the boat and then pull the chute for the kayak."
He has noted some strong differences in regular skydiving.
"The rate at which you fall is a lot different," he said. "Instead of falling flat on your belly you are sitting up right in an L position. I liken it to sitting on a space hopper, balancing front to back and side to side.
"It does take some decent balance skills. And because the boat has such a big surface area your fall rate is a lot slower.
"If you are lying on your belly, a normal sized human will fall at 120 mph.
"If you go into a stand up or a head down then you can build the speed up to 160-180mph.
"But with this boat, that has so much surface area and weighs 35lbs, meaning that I fall at only 98mph.
The reduced rate of Mr Daisher's descent through the clouds means that cameramen wishing to film him need to wear special wingsuits to increase drag and reduce their own fall rate.
Wingsuits are specially adapted bodywear for skydivers and BASE jumpers. Flaps of material running across the gaps between arms and legs increase drag for jumpers and allow them to glide like a flying squirrel.
Mr Daisher has completed more BASE jumps than anyone in the world with 2,570 and has completed a whopping 3,000 skydives since he quit his job and took up the sport in 1995.
A platoon of girls without reggiseno that they launch themselves with a parachute in order to advertise a washing machine. Draft of the discussed Danish publicity about the company of German distribution Fleggaard, a provocative video beginning from trades them gone in single wave on the web 2008.
Now the video returns to make to discuss after that tabloid English more has it to The Sun elect the spot sexy of the history. Exceeding concurrent like Kylie Minogue in spot of Agent Provocateur or the calciatrice that palleggia for Samsung, the girls in red have become a small case of the net studied from the advertising ones of average world.
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James Boole, a skydiver, has spoken of how he fell 6,000ft without opening his parachute and lived.
By John Bingham
The 31-year-old from Tamworth, Staffs, thought that he was going to die after crashing onto the snow-covered mountain in Russia after a filming stunt which went wrong.
But despite suffering multiple injuries, he was rescued and flown home to Britain in a body brace.
Mr Boole, who has one child, now describes himself as "the luckiest man in the world".
The accident happened while he was filming another skydiver performing a jump onto a mountain side for a television documentary.
As he plunged at 100mph, he was meant to open his parachute following a signal from the other man.
But because of a mix-up, he pulled the cord with only a few seconds to spare.
Landing was like being "hit by a speeding truck", he said.
He reportedly broke his back, cracked a rib, chipped several teeth and bruised a lung.
"I was screaming in pain, coughing up blood," he told the Sun.
"I was very worried I had got internal injuries and I might be dying.
"I thought about telling someone my last words."
Mr Boole, a mechanical engineer by training, has been parachuting for 12 years and has completed more than 2,000 jumps.
As an aerial cameraman, his work has been featured on the BBC's Top Gear programme.
Daredevil, extreme and bonkers are three words that come to mind.
But it's doubtful whether the duo playing Scrabble at 13,000ft will have time to try them out.
The skydivers, Nicole Angelides and Ramsey Kent, are helping to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the game using a reinforced wooden board and adhesive pieces.
Skydivers Nicole Angelides and Ramsey Kent help celebrate the 60th anniversary of scrabble by playing the game at 13,000ft
Miss Angelides, 41, a fan of both Scrabble and skydiving, said: 'It was a short game but a lot of fun.'
As well as the lofty game in Florida, there were celebratory Scrabble matches in a lion cage in Africa, an alligator park also in Florida and up on a chilly cliff overlooking the sea in North Wales.
More than 150million Scrabble sets have been produced since American architect Alfred Mosher Butts came up with the concept in 1938.
These days, at least 30,000 games of Scrabble are started every hour.
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All you art collectors out there. Here is a chance to get a Giclee copy of some of Ian M Sherwin work. Ian is planning on doing a whole series of Marblehead, Massachusetts paintings. His work is amazing.
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