I'm not sure what to believe but if true he must be the luckiest airman.
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Captain Hedley was flying the two-seater Bristol Fighter over France in January 1918 with his pilot Lieutenant Jimmy Makepeace when near-disaster struck.
Makepeace put the plane into a steep dive and Hedley - so the story goes - fell out.
He claims to have fallen 700ft (213m) before landing back on the tail of the plane and crawling back into the cockpit as it came out of the dive.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-29703198