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by Cornelia KumfertNeed for
Speed
107 years ago, the US Army Captain,
Albert Berry, was the first person ever to
dare to jump out of a plane. Nowadays,
skydiving almost counts as a recreational
sport. Even so, it still requires a lot of cour-
age to jump out of an intact aircraft at
some dizzying height and plummet
towards the Earth at a speed of
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