A 15-mile free fall, a tennis match at 3,000 feet, and more daredeviling from the archives
Posted 10.09.2012 at 3:00 pm
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Later this week, when Felix Baumgartner tries yet again to jump out of a helium balloon 23 miles above Earth, he will have modern science and medicine (and Red Bull) to back him up. Not so for the daredevils in this gallery, all from the 1920s and '30s; they were still impressed by electricity and penicillin.
Heck, the airplane had barely been invented when these feckless stuntmen (and one stuntwoman) decided to test the limits of aerial acrobatics. Check out this archive gallery for a terrifying headstand, an in-air engine repair, and a very windy game of tennis.
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I stayed up all night damn you mother nature!
Nice. On the lead picture he was checking the engine on an endurance flight. You really need someone checking your stories.