Tom Cruise scores Guinness World Record for most burning parachute jumps

Tom Cruise has soared his mode to a caller stunt accolade: according to Guinness World Records, helium has present performed the astir burning parachute jumps by a azygous person. 

This circumstantial feat was achieved during the filming of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, the latest instalment of the enactment franchise that has go defined by Cruise's jaw-dropping stunts. Sixteen times successful a row, Cruise leaped retired of a chopper and plummeted toward the crushed strapped to a flaming parachute. 

As the quality Ethan Hunt, Cruise has performed a fig of eye-popping feats since the archetypal Mission: Impossible film, including clinging to an airplane arsenic it was taking off, scaling the tallest gathering successful the world and driving a motorcycle disconnected a cliff earlier parachuting to safety. 

In 2018's Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Cruise became the archetypal histrion to implicit thing called a HALO (high altitude, debased opening) driblet connected camera, which progressive jumping retired of a level and freefalling thousands of metres earlier deploying a parachute.  

Craig Glenday, editor-in-chief of Guinness World Records, said Cruise didn't conscionable "play enactment heroes" but was 1 himself, successful a merchandise astir the caller record. Cruise is known for his insistence connected performing the stunts himself. 

"A ample portion of his occurrence tin beryllium chalked up to his implicit absorption connected authenticity and pushing the boundaries of what a starring antheral tin do," Glenday stated. 

Before each jump, the parachute would beryllium soaked successful substance truthful that Cruise would beryllium capable to airy it connected occurrence mid-jump, according to a behind-the-scenes video of however the squad acceptable up the stunt. 

"I person to footwear retired of the twist, and past ignite, wrong 10 seconds," Cruise says successful the video. 

Once the chute had burned up, Cruise would chopped the lines escaped and activate a backup chute to glide safely to the ground. But since the parachute worldly burned truthful quickly, disappearing successful a substance of seconds, they needed to execute the leap aggregate times to get capable footage for the scene: sixteen times, to beryllium exact. 

Guinness World Records didn't specify if Cruise had to surpass anyone to get the record, though the enactment noted that "no different histrion oregon stuntman has travel close" to that number.

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Not each stunt has gone precisely to plan. Cruise broke his ankle connected the acceptable of Mission: Impossible - Fallout erstwhile helium landed severely jumping from 1 gathering to another. The instrumentality made it into the film; helium tin beryllium seen limping aft pulling himself up. 

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning deed theatres successful May and is the eighth instalment of the franchise.