For example, he opens his book by parachuting into a day's work as a coffee picker in Guatemala.
Acworth's parachuting Easter Bunny made his first jump last year in an approaching storm, making for a tense Easter behind the scenes.
His only injury was a bitten tongue sustained after parachuting to safety.
As a young man, he climbed mountains, flew light aircraft and is said to have enjoyed parachuting out of planes doing cartwheels.
They see him more as an urbane, city-bred interloper, parachuting into the "other India", commiserating with the poor, and then returning to Delhi.
But for three Army Rangers who got stuck in trees while parachuting Thursday afternoon in Washington state, their only aim was to get down.
This year, the church is hiring Mr. Wallace's company again for the sky-diving Easter Bunny and decided to raise the Easter-basket stakes by adding a parachuting chick.
Other claims have also been discounted based on physical descriptions, parachuting experience and DNA recovered from the thin, black tie that Cooper removed before he jumped.
Then Millbank was accused of "parachuting" in the former Home Office minister Alun Michael as a candidate favoured by the government against the Welsh party's favourite, Rhodri Morgan.
"If you get this kind of stuff rolling, " he says, "it will help you attract better chief executive candidates"--and, presumably, reduce the chance of parachuting in a VC later.
As is well known to participants in the sport of Base Jumping (a mind-bogglingly dangerous activity that involves parachuting from static objects), parachutes have problems when launched from tall buildings.
Some local Socialist dissidents are running outside the party, in protest at the parachuting in of Green candidates (the Greens' Eva Joly got just 2.3% in the first round of the presidential election).
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His service in the United States Army from 19431977 included an assignment with the Office of Strategic Services that involved parachuting into occupied France to work with the Resistance to support the Allied invasion.
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The highlight of the show was Craig, as Bond, walking into Buckingham Palace, escorting The Queen to a plane and then both of them apparently parachuting out of the plane into the opening ceremonies.
Supported by a team of experts, Felix Baumgartner plans to ascend to 120, 000 feet in a stratospheric balloon and make a freefall jump rushing toward earth at supersonic speeds before parachuting to the ground.
It was a Saturday morning deep in the bowels of Covent Garden Market in London, but the bang when the bottle spectacularly exploded I thought was sure to bring SWAT troops parachuting down on us.
The academy's powered flight, glider and parachuting operations have been called off since Saturday so that the U.S. Forest Service could use runways for helicopters used to fight fires along Colorado's Front Range, Van Winkle said.
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The plan also involves parachuting in as chief executive of the Fiat parent company Enrico Bondi, an old Mediobanca hand who made his reputation turning round the Ferruzzi agro-chemicals business and, latterly, sorting out troubled Telecom Italia.
Temora, a five-hour drive west of Sydney, with a rich aviation history as the site of Australia's biggest pilot-training school during World War II, was already a center for sport aviation activities such as gliding, parachuting and aerobatics.
Mr. Wallace, a sky diver for more than 40 years, did his first jump as Easter Bunny two years ago for Clarity, a small church in Santa Monica, parachuting into a school park as hundreds of kids screamed with delight.
Tales about bankers racing each other from Wall Street to the beach - with one enterprising weekender beating a helicopter-owning colleague by flying overhead in his Gulfstream business jet and parachuting out at the right moment - are thought to be mostly apocryphal.
Yes, I'm a highly qualified nerd with a degree in astronautical engineering from a military academy, and am retired from a couple of decades of flying mostly front line fighter planes and parachuting with various nationalities when the opportunity presented itself.
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