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Water sport. kite tubing. it's 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 tubing was the adrenaline rush i would get from it. it looked amazingly fun. >> one by one they all try ...

World's first intercontinental solar flight. the plane's wing span is roughly the same as that of a 747 jumbo jet. and that's 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. we'll 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 ledge of a high overpress. all ahead as fox reports live tonight on route to mr. bill, i mean o'reil...

>> 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 by one they all try to master this strange sport. but it's hasrd. >> you got to grip it and rip it,...

>> yes, she wears her badges proudly. >> reporter: in 1913, nearly 24 years before amelia earhart made history, they introduced the flyer badge. >> it's 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 since been retired and replaced with a more politically correct science of style badge. the changes...

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. >> it's 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 wing span, this airplane, the a-380 has a 262-foot wing span. much larger. >> in this video, what yo...