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Bargained for. >> thats when he skyrocketed down. >> chris adams lives on lake harris in florida. name your water sport, and you can bet that hell grab a bunch of friends and do it. >> its a beautiful, big lake. well take the boat out and well go slalom skiing, knee boarding, wakeboarding. >> in 2006 he discovers a new water sport. kite tubing. its a cross between water skiing and, well, flying. >> basically after a certain speed the kite tube will gain lift and fly behind the boat. >> soon chri...

You sit on it kind of like a jet ski and it has a 15-foot wing span, and you can actually get, you know, 10, 20, 30 feet of air. i was like, count me in. >> what really excited me about kite tubing was the adrenaline rush i knew would come from it that looked amazingly fun. >> one by one, they all tried to master this strange sport. but its hard. >> youve just got to grip it and rip it, take a chance every once in a while. >> finally its chase rushings turn. and he can really do it. >> i was exc...

Reconnaissance drone with a wing span of ten feet. we have quite a few of them. they launch from navy ships. you can bail them out of the water when they run out of fuel after about 20 hours or so just with a retrieval hook. infrared capability and best small radar. the whole thing is the size of a shoebox. there are a lot of them out there. if i were the american government, id deny it, too. so the first thing you do is deny it or you do like the israelis and you neither confirm or deny and let...

Speed the kite tube will gain lift and fly behind the boat. >> soon chris invites his friends to the lake to try out his new toy. >> chris called me up one day and said, hey, i got this kite tube. you sit on it kind of like a jet ski and it has a 15-foot wing span, and you can actually get, you know, 10, 20, 30 feet of air. i was like, count me in. >> what really excited me about kite tubing was the adrenaline rush that i knew would come from it. it looked amazingly fun. >> one by one they all t...

Top of the world, you become so humbled. its not about breaking records anymore. its not about getting scientific data. its all about coming home alive. >> his poor mother. because of his pressurized space suit, baumgartner didnt even feel the rushing air or hear the loud noise he made when he did, in fact, break the sound barrier. >> incredible footage there. lucky guy. man, applause in the background. well earned, guy. mission accomplished for space shuttle "endeavour," reaching its final re...

Water sport. kite tubing. its a cross between water skiing and, well, flying. >> basically after a certain speed the kite tube will gain lift and fly behind the boat. >> soon chris invites his friends to the lake to try out his new toy. >> chris called me up one day and said, hey, i got this kite tube. you sit on it kind of like a jet ski and it has a 15-foot wing span, and you can actually get, you know, 10, 20, 30 feet of air. i was like, count me in. >> what really excited me about kite tubin...

Worlds first intercontinental solar flight. the planes wing span is roughly the same as that of a 747 jumbo jet. and thats a wrap on this fox trip around the world in 80 "around the world in 80 seconds." >> shepard: a new study indicates millions of vaccines for children may not work the way they should at all because of mistakes doctors are making. well give you the details plus a guy leads the cops on a wild chase on and off the highway. we will show you how it ends when the driver on the ledg...

>> basically after a certain speed the kite tube will gain lift and fly behind the boat. >> soon chris invites his friends to the lake to try out his new toy. >> chris called me up one day and said, hey, i got this kite tube. you sit on it kind of like a jet ski and it has a 15-foot wing span, and you can actually get, you know, 10, 20, 30 feet of air. i was like, count me in. >> what really excited me about kite tubing was the adrenaline rush i would get from it. it looked amazingly fun. >> one...

>> yes, she wears her badges proudly. >> reporter: in 1913, nearly 24 years before amelia earhart made history, they introduced the flyer badge. >> its quite a thrill for a young lady to have the possibility of thrustability, torque, wing span and power on the tip of her tongue. >> reporter: they introduced a business woman badge. in 1947, a poultry raiser badge. and by the 80s, boldly introduced us to the aerospace badge. they also introduced the fashion of fitness and makeup badge. which has s...

Aircraft. category four is for wide body and category five was for jumbo jets. the a-380 created -- the faa had to create a new category for this aircraft. >> its a super jumbo, seven stories tall. the wing span is unbelievable. at least three times what this plane is. the little plane. >> jfk actually is designed as a group five. and the faa had to give it special permission to actually be able to use those facilities. now when you take a look at a 747, which has approximately almost 200 feet w...