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Skydiving Across the English Channel
loonix_gangsta writes "Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian, has become the first person to skydive 35 km (22 miles) across the English Channel. Wearing a jumpsuit with a large carbon fin strapped to his back he reached speeds of up to 360 km/h. The whole flight took approximately 14 minutes. The newsitem is being covered by the BBC, SkyNews
and CNN."
Damn Atkins diet.
101st-airborne-becoming-jealous
The 101st isn't airborne in the parachute sense anymore.
It's the 101st Airborne (Air Assault) which means they fly around in helicopters now.
The 101st at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, provides forcible entry capability through heliborne 'air assault' operations. Capable of inserting a 4,000 soldier combined arms task force, 150-kilometers into enemy terrain in one lift, and possessing 281 helicopters, including three battalions of Apache attack helicopters.
The only parachutes really associated with the 101st would be the Parachute Demonstration Team.
For parachuting in the US military, that's the role of the 82nd Airborne Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade.
People wouldn't starve if there was a viable infrastructure for the transport of food.
/. than the rate of deaths from testicular cancer are on the decline.
But that doesn't exsist so there is overpopulation coupled with a lack of advanced farming techniques and so people die.
It's a shame but it happens, however it's no more newsworthy for
Ah, Jingoism swells in the heart of the Anonymous Coward.
With apologies to Fozzie Bear.
Even more surprising was that America hadn't engaged in 'shock and awe' before the invasion; although latest good news from the Pentagon is that France has now been listed as an axis of evil country, thankfully.
-WolfWithoutAClause
"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"