Knights Without Parachutes — luckiest man alive

It's a true story. But the drawing for Ripley's Believe It or Not "Luckiest Man Alive" is slightly mythical. Captain Hedley, as an observer with no seatbelt, did indeed both fall out of his plane and land on it again, just not quite as dramatically as shown in the Ripley's drawing of the event. The drawing showed Hedley falling straight down while the airplane dove in a vertical half-circle to intersect with his fall. Instead, it seems he fell more or less with the airplane, and somehow landed on the tail. But a miss is as good as a mile; it didn't matter if Hedley...