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Old 11-29-17, 10:18 AM   #1
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Icon14 Daredevils jump from a mountain into a plane

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Fred Fugen and Vince Reffet from France jumped from Jungfrau mountain into a moving plane.
It was to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Patrick de Gayardon's achievement in 1997, when he jumped from an aircraft into a moving plane.
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-eur...n-into-a-plane

This is odd.
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Old 11-29-17, 11:50 AM   #2
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Next time press the "Forward" button instead of "Reverse".
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Old 11-29-17, 05:51 PM   #3
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I wish my parents had so much money, I could waste time doing something stupid. It certainly wouldn't be that.
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Old 11-29-17, 08:45 PM   #4
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Some people will do anything to avoid having to deal with the TSA...









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Old 11-29-17, 09:01 PM   #5
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I wonder what makes them "experts", the fact they haven't killed themselves doing it yet?
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Old 11-30-17, 04:13 PM   #6
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Pretty much; otherwise, they'd be referred to as "Damn Fools"...







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I wonder what makes them "experts", the fact they haven't killed themselves doing it yet?
This is true for any field.
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Old 12-03-17, 05:13 AM   #8
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I wonder what makes them "experts", the fact they haven't killed themselves doing it yet?
Precisely
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