Strapping GoPro cameras to high-altitude weather balloons to shoot photos and videos of the edge of space has been growing in popularity, but on GoPro just captured something incredible that no GoPro had before: an extremely close flyby of a passenger airliner at 38,000 feet.

The project OLHZN High Altitude Balloons launched a GoPro balloon flight from Honeoye, New York, and the camera traveled to an altitude of 102,544 feet and landed near Syracuse, New York.
On the way, however, the camera captured an incredible moment in which a Delta Airlines Airbus A319 flying from Boston to Detroit zipped by at an altitude of 38,000 feet. The airplane passed within 500 feet of the camera, creating an extremely loud sound in the resulting footage (the moment starts at about 40 seconds into the video).
This is an extremely rare chance encounter for a flight that was conducted safely and legally.
“All of our flights follow FAA Federal Aviation Regulation requirements outlined in FAR 101 and have NOTAMs filed with the FAA and coordination is performed with the local ARTCCs and airports to ensure safe operations,” the project writes. “This is the raw audio version with no music added. No sound effects have been added at all. This audio is completely raw.”

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Former Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has been airlifted to hospital after a horror crash in Switzerland.
The 47-year-old, who sustained brain injuries after a 288mph rocket car accident in 2006, is being treated in hospital after flipping a £2million electric supercar which then burst into flames as he filmed his new Amazon show The Grand Tour.
But he has miraculously escaped the fireball horror with little more than a fractured knee and was 'conscious and talking' after freeing himself from the vehicle.
Pictures from the scene showed the Rimac Concept One car in flames alongside a road in St. Gallen before the blaze was extinguished by firefighters.
Grand Tour producer Amazon later released images showing the burnt-out wreckage of the car laying upside down on a hill. 

The crash is reported to have happened on a road that was closed for the Bergrennen Hemberg race. 
A spokesperson for The Grand Tour said: 'Richard Hammond was involved in a serious crash after completing the Hemburg Hill Climb in Switzerland in a Rimac Concept One, an electric super car built in Croatia, during filming for The Grand Tour Season 2 on Amazon Prime, but very fortunately suffered no serious injury.
'Richard was conscious and talking, and climbed out of the car himself before the vehicle burst into flames.
'He was flown by Air Ambulance to hospital in St Gallen to be checked over revealing a fracture to his knee.
'Nobody else was in the car or involved in the accident, and we'd like to thank the paramedics on site for their swift response.
'The cause of the crash is unknown and is being investigated.'
Grand Tour co-star Jeremy Clarkson tweeted: 'It was the biggest crash I've ever seen and the most frightening but incredibly, and thankfully, Richard seems to be mostly OK.'
It comes just weeks after Mr Hammond toppled off his motorcycle and banged his head while riding through a 'remote' part of Mozambique. 
In a blog post, he wrote: 'It's true, I did fall off a motorbike whilst filming recently for The Grand Tour in Mozambique.
'I banged my head, yes, along with pretty much everything else apart from my left thumb, which remains un-bruised.
'Can't tell you more yet about the how and why of it; that's all for later in the year on the show. As for injuries; well put it this way, I don't think I can get a book out of it.'


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A British aerobatic daredevil is thought to have broken a world record for the fastest flight in a wingsuit after soaring through the air at 249mph - around the top speed of a Bugatti Veyron supercar.
Fraser Corsan, from Salisbury, leapt into the record books during an adventure after jumping 35,000ft above Davis in California.
But Mr Corsan, 42, missed out on three other records he had long hoped for – the world's highest wingsuit jump, the longest time flown in a wingsuit and the furthest distance flown, due to poor weather. 

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From the front, it’s clearly a Rolls-Royce, with a massive maw of a grille and quizzical, round headlamps. From the back, it looks like a yacht, or perhaps a frog. Put them together and you have Sweptail—a bespoke car made for a client with endless resources and decidedly quirky taste.
Rolls unveiled the Sweptail this week in Lake Como, Italy. It wouldn’t confirm how much the two-seater coupé cost, but estimates put the price at about $13 million—one of the most expensive new cars ever sold.
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The client commissioned Rolls to create a car inspired by its 1920s and 1930s models, plus an exotic wood interior, a panoramic glass skylight, a champagne chiller in the center console and a special compartment for his briefcase. His identity has not been disclosed, except that he is male.

Giles Taylor, director of design at Rolls-Royce, likened the design process to haute couture. “This customer came to the House of Rolls-Royce with an idea, shared in the creative process where we advised him on his cloth, and then we tailored that cloth to him,” Taylor said.” You might say we cut the cloth for the suit of clothes that he will be judged by.”
It’s unlikely that someone who can drop $13 million on a car is concerned about how he’s judged. Rolls would only reveal that he was a collector of “distinctive, one-off items” like super-yachts and private planes.

Consider the numbers: 248km/h @ 8800 revs through multiple gear shifts. This is how world-renowned Kiwi drifter Mad Mike Whiddett attacked the corners on Franschhoek Pass in BADBULduring a recent trip to the Southern tip of Africa.
Conquer The Cape (playing in the player above) is the latest in a string of boundary-pushing world firsts for Mike and he loved every second of the drive.
"The drive itself was just crazy," Mike says of the R45 between Franschhoek and Villiersdorp.
"I can compare it a bit to Conquer the Crown – a very successful project we did back home that was a game-changer for drifting because of the credibility the sport got for the precision driving. The scenery is very similar, but this road was far more raw, with like massive cliff-drops and not much run-off. Not much space for error."

At the 2017 F1 Europe Grand Prix in Azerbaijan, Williams Racing tied the record for tje fastest pit stop ever at 1.92 seconds. The blistering time was first set in 2013 by Team Red Bull at the US Grand Prix.
Through eight races this season, Williams Racing has owned the fastest pit stop time in every single race. You can see the complete list of times