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>> boole follows the lead wing-suit flier as he jumps from the helicopter into an icy gorge. >> i was filming. to help me frame the video, i had a ring site on my left eye. it gives you depth perception. plus the fact were flying on snow. and in cloudy day, towards sunset, you cant make out the texture. its just white. >> the plan is for boole to deploy his parachute at 600 feet, just after the lead wing-suit flier opens his. although its dangerously low to the ground, boole is determined to cap...

Me my life. >> april 10, 2009. kamchatka peninsula, russia. professional wing-suit pilot james boole is traveling to russias far east to shoot a documentary on its extreme landscape. >> its covered in snow for nine months a year. it has the most active volcanos of anyplace on the planet so they call it the land of fire and ice. >> it is the final of the trip and booles eager to make it one of the most thrilling trips. >> we had done three other jumps that day. and it was obvious to everybody thi...

The iphone 5 was unveiled a year ago this week. they may have a fingerprint sensor on there for secure payments and also for your passwords on the home button here and this lower price is unclear exactly how much lower it will be but certainly the margins would perhaps be better on those discounting the existing 5 s pressures that youve seen as the stock came well off its high. jon: also a software announcement? what can you tell us about that? >> yeah. thats right. and thats -- we sort of got a...

Worse drivers? so the men not the women say it. well, i say as with all these missions there is some -- myths there is some truth this video, been watched more than a million times illustrates what i think is true. women often just are not very good at maneuvering a car. maybe about brain differences relating too depth perception. but in this parking lot, a woman trying to park again, and again, but she just cannot get into the space. finally a man gets out of his car, switches places with her, ...

[ applause ] finally, a couple myths about differences between the sexes. is it true that women are bad drivers? or at least worse than men? what do you think? let me ask you, how many think, raise your hand, that women are worse drivers? the men, not the women say it. i say with all these myths, there is some truth to it. this video thats been watched more than a million times illustrates what i thinks true. women often just arent very good at maneuvering a car. maybe its about brain differen...

137 knots? i mean, thats -- its just inexplicable. jon: also the fact that, you know, as were seeing in this animation, the plane was coming in over the water. that presents some problems in and of itself, especially for someone who habit flown into san francisco -- hasnt flown into san francisco in this type of aircraft before. >> right. if youre coming in over a flat, featureless area like water, you know, you can have a tough time on depth perception. but the cockpit of this aircraft has all ...

>> can you overlook that, or is that a pretty obvious alert that goes out to pilots? do you check that every time you land some place? >> it could be overlooked. but if youre on a trans atlantic flight and youre coming in where you could have instrument conditions, thats going to be an issue because you need that for instrument conditions. now, today they were landing under visual flight rules, so this was an eyes on, theres the airport, im flying the airplane, im going to land there. >> it was ...

Because the equipment was out of service in daytime visual conditions, you are just fine visually, and the pilots have flown visual approaches repeatedly since the beginning of their training. you really have to use your depth perception and visual accuse to know if youre high or low. >> it seems sort of hard for me to understand. ive flown in planes in alaska. i was with franklin graham on a small plane. when we got too close to a mountain, we heard pull up, pull up, pull up. i would think ther...

Meanwhile, you see this terrain there. its a unique airport. according to the hero of the hudson, captain sully sullenberger, he says this particular airport has unique terrain as you approach it. >> lets listen to sully. >> he says the faa classified it as a special airport, along with other airports worldwide that involve mountainous terrain or other special challenges. it is surrounded by water. a featureless terrain where depth perception can be difficult. there are shifting winds, low visib...

Sullenberger, landed his us airways flight safety on the hudson when his small airbus had a flock of birds. hes reacted to this crash today. sullenberger describing some of the difficulties he says pilots face when landing at sfo. heres a quote from him. the faa classified it as a special airport along with other airports worldwide that involve mountainous terrain or other special vachallenges. it is surrounded by water and of course water is a featureless terrain where depth perception can be d...