The highest bungee jump from a building is 199 m (652 ft 10 in) and was achieved by A.J. Hackett (New Zealand) who leaped off a platform at 233 m (764 ft 5 in) on the Macau Tower, Macau, China, on 17 December 2006. The key point here, is that the distance between the ground and AJ was 34 m (111 ft 6 in). This, naturally, is a lot different to people who claim to have bungeed off the highest building, but have used a
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Curtis Rivers (UK) performed a bungee jump from a hot air balloon at 4,632 m (15,200 ft) over Puertollano, Spain, on 5 May 2002 – thus achieving the highest altitude bungee jump. He jumped using a 10 m (33 ft) cord, which stretched to 30 m (98 ft). After bouncing five times he freed himself from the cord and parachuted to the ground. At jump altitude the air was so thin that breathing equipment had to be used.
Grant Denyer (Australia) and AJ Hackett (New Zealand) bungee jumped from a helicopter hovering at 300 m (984 ft) above the water near Bondi Beach, NSW, Australia, on 11 November 2005. The cord stretched to 250 m (820 ft) during the attempt. I can confirm to you that the length of the bungy cord from end to end un-stretched was 60.5 meters and 33 ply. When fully stretched the bungy cord was 250m long. This is the measurement from the top of the bungy cord
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The record for the highest bungee jump (hands) from a crane is 50m and was achieved by Michael Mann (Germany) on the set of Guinness World Records: Die größten Weltrekorde (RTL, Germany) in Cologne, Germany on 09 September 2006.
The highest bungee jump restrained with the hands was 61.99 metres (203 ft 4 in) high and was achieved by Franz Müllner (Austria) who held his Friend Patrick Schurf (Austria) at the Vienna Recordia 2008 in Vienna, Austria on 28 September 2008.
The highest basket toss involved four bases tossing a flyer to a height of 5.40 m (17 ft 8 in) and was achieved by members of the Australian All Star Cheerleading Federation (Australia) on the set of Australia Smashes Guinness World Records at the Warringah Mall in Sydney, Australia, on 31 January 2010. The base throwers were Derrick Turner, Cody Brown, Alex Kain and Anthony Hodge (all Australia). They tossed Anne-Marie Maguire (Australia). Her weight was 46 kg (101.41 lbs)
Roscoe Wind Farm, Roscoe, Texas, USA, contains 627 separate wind turbines and can generate up to 781.5 MW. The farm covers an area of almost 400 km².
The highest capacity jet airliner is the double deck Airbus 380 (manufactured by EADS (Airbus S.A.S.)), which first flew in Toulouse, France on 27 April 2005 and is due to enter its first airline service in October 2007 with Singapore Airlines. Whilst it has a nominal seating capacity of 555 seats, it has a potential maximum seating capacity of 853 depending on the interior fuselage fit. It has a wing span of 79.8 m (261 ft 8 in), a range of 15,000 km (9,320 miles;
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The highest cable car walk is 3,303 m (10,836 ft 7 in) above sea level along a 1,600 m cable car wire which was achieved by Freddy Nock (Switzerland) who managed to walk 572 m (1,876 ft 7 in) across at Silvaplana ski resort, St. Moritz, Switzerland, on 29 January 2011. Freddy Nock originally opted to beat his previous record of longest cable car walk but failed due to extreme weather conditions. He was later given a Guinness World Records title for highest cable car
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NASA’s Voyager 2 probe encountered the planet Uranus and its collection of moons in 1986. The small moon Miranda, with a diameter of 472 km, has a surface made up of a jumble of bizarre geological features. One of the most prominent of these features is an enormous cliff with a vertical relief of about 20km 12 miles. This cliff, named Verona Rupes, is more than ten times higher than the walls of the Grand Canyon on Earth. That this towering cliff is so huge
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