{"id":4815,"date":"2010-04-20T00:30:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T08:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=4815"},"modified":"2010-04-19T22:15:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T06:15:02","slug":"out-of-a-perfectly-good-airplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/out-of-a-perfectly-good-airplane\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of a Perfectly Good Airplane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people call skydiving &#8220;jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.&#8221;\u00a0 US Army Staff Sgt Ben Borger took it to a new extreme when he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2010\/04\/16\/37533-soldier-sets-wing-suit-world-record\/\">jumped out of a C-17 at 32,000 feet<\/a> in a &#8220;wingsuit.&#8221;\u00a0 He reportedly broke a world record for traveling 11.5 miles after jumping, which translates to slightly more than 2 miles of horizontal travel for every mile he fell.<\/p>\n<p>An airplane, of course, could have travelled much further, and it wouldn&#8217;t have needed to hitch a ride after landing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people call skydiving &#8220;jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.&#8221;\u00a0 US Army Staff Sgt Ben Borger took it to a new extreme when he jumped out of a C-17 at 32,000 feet in a &#8220;wingsuit.&#8221;\u00a0 He reportedly broke a world record for traveling 11.5 miles after jumping, which translates to slightly more than 2 miles of horizontal travel for [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[88,402,2],"class_list":["post-4815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-army","tag-ben-borger","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}