Flight of the Bird Men Redux

By Michael Moyer Posted 07.17.2007 at 12:43 pm 3 Comments

Back in July of 2003 we published "The Flight of the Bird Men," a story with the tag line "For Jari Kuosma and Robert Pecnik, skydiving wasn't enough—they wanted to strap on wings and fly. So what if 96 percent of their predecessors had died in the attempt?" After seeing this video, I can't believe it's only 96 percent:

Just amazing.—Michael Moyer

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11/30/07 at 12:43 am

Road apples

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11/30/07 at 5:43 am

Catch 22

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11/30/07 at 7:39 pm

As black as Newgate's knocker

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