It completely changed my relationship with fear, which had become a very regular part of my daily life through the depressed period.

Millions of people across the globe held their breath as American skydiver Luke Aikins jumped out of a plane to fall into a net 25,000 feet (7,620 m) below. The daring stunt is now in the history books as the first complete jump without a parachute.

A 42-year-old skydiver with more than 18,000 jumps made history Saturday when he became the first person to survive a leap without a parachute. After a two-minute freefall, Luke Aikins flipped onto his back at the last second and landed dead centre into a 30-by-30-metre net at the Big Sky movie ranch on the outskirts of Simi Valley in California. Cheers rose from those who gathered to watch the stunt, including his family. The jump — from the death-defying altitude of 25,000 feet (7.6 kilometres) — makes Aikins the only skydiver ever to go from plane to planet Earth without a parachute.

The tragedy occurred on Wednesday when a group of 28 people attempted to form the famous five rings associated with the Olympics. Police are investigating the cause of an accident that saw two skydivers die in an Olympic ring aerial performance in Brazil, reports as.com. National champion and holder of several South American records, Gustavo Correa Garcez, 39, and instructor, Guilherme Bastos Padilha, 47, fell to their deaths in the incident at Boituva, 117 kilometers (72 miles) from Sao Paulo.

What sounds like a nightmare for most is still a dream for others; to BASE jump off the world's second highest residential structure with the most qualified athletes in the world. SkydiveDubai and XDubai have partnered with DreamJump to bring dreams to extreme reality when they opened the opportunity for limited people from the public to jump using the DreamJump System

How's your Friday going? In a Chicago suburb, 164 people just set a new world record for the largest ever vertical skydiving formation (the previous mark was set in 2012 and featured 138 skydivers). It took the team of skydivers 13 tries to all link up properly, but once they did, the result was "awesome, man," organizer Rock Nelson said. Check it out for yourself...

Patrick Remington and friends take a short helicopter ride above Pensacola, Florida, then hang off the copter for a moment before skydiving to Navarre Beach.

Thirteen people on board a skydiving plane, including the pilot, parachuted to safety in New Zealand on Wednesday moments before the aircraft crashed into a lake. Witnesses saw a steady stream of people jumping from the plane, which authorities said experienced mechanical failure on its way to Lake Taupo, 280 km (175 miles) south of Auckland, for skydiving.

After a leakage on the net, we decided to release a small trailer on our catapult project.

A well-known computer scientist parachuted from a balloon near the top of the stratosphere on Friday, falling faster than the speed of sound and breaking the world altitude record set just two years ago.

A senior Google vice president, Alan Eustace, has broken the world altitude record for a parachute jump set in 2012 by Austrian Felix Baumgartner. Mr Eustace was carried by a large helium balloon from New Mexico to over 40km (25 miles) above the earth. The 57-year-old leapt out in a specially-designed space suit, reaching speeds of more than 1,300km/h. He exceeded the speed of sound, setting off a small sonic boom, and broke three skydiving records in the process.

Base jumper John Van Horne , along with his buddies‎‏ ‏‎Matt Frohlich‎‏ and ‏‎Andy Lewis‎‏ are always looking for exciting new jump sites. they ended their latest dive off the famous 1,099 feet (335 meters) Tower in Kuala Lumpur with a splash, as they took aim for the pool party at the top of the adjacent Hotel.

Steve Leonard discovers just how fast a peregrine falcon can dive - by jumping off a hot air balloon.

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Just another day at this office for this tandem instructor, when all of a sudden, out of the blue.... wait for it... wait for... BOOM... shoe-to-the-face! Not only that, but then the student catches the shoe!!! Ha, what're the odds??

Full Contact Skydiving combines the discipline of Mixed Martial Arts with the intensity of skydiving. Watch Urijah Faber coach two competitors in this insane new sport

Daredevil Andy Lewis slacklines bewtween two hot air balloons. 4000 ft back to earth, and no safety line. Music

This is a rare view: Five skydivers in wingsuits soar over New York City, beginning their journey at 8,200 feet above the southern tip of Manhattan. They reached speeds of 120mph as they flew past the financial district before deploying parachutes and landing on a barge in the Hudson River.

Four wingsuit flyers take to skies above New York swooping through the air at speeds of up to 120 miles before landing on a barge in the Hudson River