http://wyrk.com Today's Country And Your All-Time Favorites Sun, 26 May 2013 01:16:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://wyrk.com/somebody-had-to-do-it-first-the-first-parachute-jump/ http://wyrk.com/somebody-had-to-do-it-first-the-first-parachute-jump/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:00:12 +0000 Dale Mussen http://wyrk.com/?p=134238 We were talking last week about the Austrian who jumped from a balloon 24 miles above the earth and set a speed record for skydiving before his parachute brought him safely to the ground. Like anything, someone had to be the first person to do something and with parachuting the first verified parachute jump was more by a Frenchman more than 200 years ago.

]]> http://wyrk.com/somebody-had-to-do-it-first-the-first-parachute-jump/feed/ 0 (Gettiy Images) http://wyrk.com/highest-and-fastest-parachute-jump/ http://wyrk.com/highest-and-fastest-parachute-jump/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:00:06 +0000 Dale Mussen http://wyrk.com/?p=131187 Felix Baumgartner is an Austrian daredevil who has parachuted from the Petronas Towers in Malaysa and the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, but yesterday he did what he’d been planning for five years to jump from the edge of space and free fall back to Earth at the speed of sound.

]]> http://wyrk.com/highest-and-fastest-parachute-jump/feed/ 0 Felix Baumgartner of Austria celebrates his historic parachute jump from the edge of space (Getty Images)