British daredevil leaps from plane without parachute

A British stuntman became the world's first skydiver to land without a parachute on Wednesday, falling 731 metres (2,400 feet) to drop safely onto a crash-pad of cardboard boxes. Wearing a specially-made "wing suit", Gary Connery leapt from a helicopter over Henley-on-Thames in southern England, aiming - with his life hanging in the balance - at a "runway" of 18,000 cardboard boxes.
After plunging at a speed of approximately 130 kilometres (80 miles) an hour the 41-year-old landed successfully onto the boxes. Connery, who has appeared as a stuntman in films including "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and the Bond movie "Die Another Day", said the experience had been "absolutely amazing".