“We did it! This weekend I flew a 100 meters with my selfbuilt wings. I used a GoPro-camera on my helmet to film the flight.
I have always dreamed about this. But after 8 months of hard work, research and testing it all payed off. Enjoy!”
Skydiving daredevil Felix Baumgartner is more than halfway toward his goal of setting a world record for the highest jump.
He’s aiming for nearly 23 miles this summer. The record is 19.5 miles.
Mr Baumgartner lifted off Thursday for a test jump from Roswell, New Mexico, aboard a 100-foot helium balloon. He rode inside a pressurized capsule to 71,581 feet – 13.6 miles – and then jumped  … Pictures and more
It’s the real-life birdman! Parachutist flies over the Alps in a wing-suit in ‘world first’
Hurtling over peaks at 500 km an hour (310 miles an hour), a Swiss man flew over the Alps in a wing-suit yesterday.
His team said it was the first time the mountain range had been crossed in such a free fall.
Parachutist Remo Laeng, 36, jumped from a plane 7,500 metres (24,600ft) up, near the Swiss ski resort of Verbier and sped south over the Alps  … Pictures and more