How would you celebrate your 87th birthday? Splitting an enormous cake with your 47 grandchildren and great-grandchildren? A pottery class? Jack Daniels? For Janis Lefebre’s 87th birthday, her family bought her a ticket to go skydiving.
Playing a realistic game of Quidditch has been a goal of Harry Potter fans ever since the book made the geeky fictional game famous. A group of skydivers have achieved that silly feat.
When Eleanor Cunningham turned 100, she wanted to do something really special. While I'm sure for plenty of women her age, going down to the local supper club for a night of dancing, or smoking through a couple cartons of cigarettes and downing a bottle of brandy would have sufficed quite nicely, Cunningham decided…
To mark the three year anniversary of the 2011 Tucson shooting that left her shot in the head and killed multiple others, Gabby Giffords jumped out of an airplane.
An 88-member women's skydiving team in Russia broke a world record this week when they completed a red, white and blue flower-formation dive, which, judging by how pretty it looks, was really, really, hard. It was so hard, in fact, that it took the Pearls of Russia three attempts because everyone in the group has to…
What did you spend your weekend doing? Drinking? Sleeping? Drunk-sleeping? Yardwork? Well, whatever it was, it probably wasn't quite as thrilling as what two great-grandmothers from Ohio got up to. The women both went skydiving for the first time to raise money for a local Blue Star Mothers of America chapter and its…
Officials at the FAA are peeved at an airline pilot who allowed two skydivers to have sex on his plane, jump from the plane while outfitted in skydiving equipment, and then continue the act in midair while filming the whole thing. Not only is there no word yet for what this is (let's just call it skyfucking or…
The way the story goes, a group of frequent skydivers were knocking back a few beers when the idea struck them: Hey, why not take our favorite pooch the next time we go? The guys taped the whole event, which we'll take as evidence that Otis enjoyed his trip through the air. Er, we hope.
A writer for the Daily News somehow convinced his 82-year-old Grandmother to agree to go skydiving — with cameras along to document the whole thing. After she made her decent from the sky, she had a few words: "Life gets better and better, and even when you think it can't get any better, it gets better!"
Last Saturday, 181 women leaped from nine planes for Jump for the Cause, which benefits breast cancer research. Not only did they raise $900,000, they also broke the world record for the most women skydiving in formation. [UPI]
• A DNA test of the skull fragment previously believed to be Hitler's has revealed it is actually a woman's. The find has raised questions about what happened to Hitler's remains and whether he really committed suicide. •
Paparazzi target, fashion-designer darling — and, oh, yes, actress — Kate Bosworth sashayed onto the stage of the Late Show With David Letterman last night to plug her MIT-students-con-casinos film 21 and talk movies, Vegas, and her recent trip to New Zealand, where she and her beau, James Rousseau, went skydiving.…
