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World first: Plane hooks a skydiver out of the air

This is just all kinds of outrageous. Last November, a skydiver jumped out of a helicopter, glided down into the Grand Canyon wearing a wingsuit, turned around to face the sky, and hooked up to a plane flying above him so it could tow him up and away into the air.

Last November, a skydiver jumped out of a helicopter, glided down into the Grand Canyon wearing a wingsuit, turned around to face the sky, and hooked up to a plane flying above him so it could tow him up and away into the air. Aikins, who's a part the Red Bull Air Force and a skydiver himself, modified his Cessna 182 aircraft to fit a large handlebar at the bottom of the fuselage that Manow would hold on to, and added an experimental airbrake. If that wasn't enough adrenaline for you, a previous bonkers wingsuit stunt from 2017 is equally jaw dropping, in which a pair of skydivers BASE-jumped off a mountain summit, and entered a passing airplane.

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