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Headline: Eat Your Heart Out Tom Cruise! Slovenian Climber Domen Škofic Scales the Outside of a Plane in Mid-Flight
Caption: Eat Your Heart Out Tom Cruise! Slovenian Climber Domen Škofic Scales the Outside of a Plane in Mid-Flight. Slovenian climber and Red Bull athlete Domen Škofic has become the first person in the world to scale the outside of a plane in mid-flight. He completed an 8a climbing route across the wings of the Red Bull Blanix Team’s historic Blanik glider at an altitude of 2,500 metres while the aircraft flew at speeds of up to 100km/h. Equipped only with a parachute, Škofic faced freezing windchill, shifting G-forces and the relentless push of airflow, making it a challenge unlike anything attempted in climbing or aviation. After take-off from Aigen im Ennstal in Austria’s Styria region, he opened the cockpit canopy, climbed out with a 12kg parachute backpack and began his ascent, first moving along the underside of the lower left wing before transferring beneath the fuselage to switch wings in mid-flight. He then transitioned onto the top surface of the right wing, battling heavy airflow and drag, before leaping from 1,500 metres and completing the feat with a celebratory backflip skydive.
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