Tried bungee jumping, angel diving and bridge swinging when I was a student
Sky diving or sword swallowing then...
Sky diving is out, I really dont like heights. The reason I did those three was to get over it.
Actually, climbing out of an aeroplane at 10,000 feet is significantly easier than falling off a 200 foot high crane with elastic bands strapped around your ankles...
True but I have never understood the desire to jump out of a perfectly serviceable aeroplane.
I have done the parachute course however. Jumping off the back of a moving truck (to learn how to land and roll), Dropping from a hanger roof with a pre-deployed chute and jumping from the basket of a tethered balloon. My first jump from an aircraft was cancelled due to a base "lockdown" (simulation of attack on the airfield). As it turned out I was lucky because the rest of the course went on the aircraft jump and were killed. First fatal crash in the history of Transport Command. ~ What is meant to be will be I guess.
I never did jump from an aeroplane.