A skydiver pulled off an amazing stunt when he climbed out from the cockpit of a glider and crawled along the wing - then somersaulted under the wing and stepped onto the wing of a second glider travelling below. He then moved back onto the main fuselage of the second glider while the first rider turned upside down and flew overhead so that the skydiver could reach up and form a human link between the two planes. The spectacular stunt was carried out by Salzburg skydiver Paul Steiner 2,100 metres in the air with both gliders travelling at 100 miles an hour above the mountains in Styria, Austria


Jonathan Trappe flies over the white cliffs of Dover as he crosses the English Channel flying a cluster balloon. The adventurer, aged 37, strapped 54 industrial strength helium balloons to his gondola and crossed the 22-mile waterway to the continent


As Space Shuttle Atlantis headed to space and the International Space Station, a pair of F15 Strike Eagles patrolled the skies above the launch and captured this stunning image. Note the shadow of the plume. Lt. Col. Gabriel Green and Capt. Zachary Bartoe photographed the launch from an F-15E Strike Eagle over Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. Colonel Green is the 333rd Fighter Squadron commander and Captain Bartoe is a 333rd FS weapons system officer. Both aircrew members are assigned to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina


An aeroplane piloted by Dino Moline opens its parachute after an accident when it lost one of its wings during an air show near El Trebol, Santa Fe province, Argentina. The plane crashed onto the ground but the pilot suffered no injuries


Pilot Captain Brian Bews parachutes to safety as his CF-18 fighter jet plummets to the ground during a practice flight at the Lethbridge County Airport for a weekend airshow in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada


Miles Daisher casts a bizarre image paddling across the sky over Sebastian, Florida, 13,000 feet up in a kayak. The daredevil has invented a new sport, skyaking


A couple who took a yacht for a quiet sailing trip were stunned when a 40-ton whale crash-landed on their boat off Cape Town. The pair were enjoying calm seas off the South African coast when the animal flipped into the air and smashed into their mast. Ralph Mothes, 59, and Paloma Werner, 50, were helpless as the beast thrashed around on their 33ft vessel before slipping back into the water...


Miss Werner said: It really was quite incredible but very scary. The whale was about the same size as the boat. I assumed it would go underneath the boat but instead it sprang out of the sea. We were very lucky to get through it, as the sheer weight of the thing was huge. There were bits of skin and blubber left behind, and the mast was wrecked. It brought down the rigging too. Thank goodness the hull was made of steel and not fibreglass or we could have been ruined.


Wang Jianguang sets a new Guinness World Record by riding along a row of beer bottles for 20 metres in 19 seconds


A newly opened museum in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province invited 10 brave men to try on 'clothes' made from millions of bees. Dean of the museum Zhao Yicun said each participant first had a queen bee placed on their body and the other worker bees soon followed until the men were coated head-to-toe in their bee clothing.