It’s Wednesday. Jetpack pilot Vince Reffet took to the sky over Dubai on February 14th to attempt a series of maneuvers never before done in a single flight. Reffet successfully combined a safe low altitude hover and high altitude aerobatics in the same flight. During the flight, Reffet flew as high as 6,000 feet in the air and flew around the city at nearly 150 miles per hour! Reffet concluded the 3-minute flight with a high altitude roll and a loop before opening his parachute and landing back at Skydive Dubai. The video footage of his flight is spectacular, check it out above!

-keep

 
It’s Tuesday. Denny Hamlin earned his second straight Daytona 500 win and third overall in an overtime photo finish. However, the post race celebration was subdued due to a violent wreck involving Ryan Newman on the final lap. Newman, driver of the No. 6 Koch Industries Ford struck the wall and was then hit by Corey LaJoie, driver of the No. 32 RagingBull.com Ford, sending Newman’s car airborne and skidding on its roof engulfed in flames down the straightaway. Incredibly, NASCAR says Newman is in serious condition but with non-life-threatening injuries.

Safety has come a long way since Earnhardt’s death in 2001… and this is certainly proof.

-keep

It’s Monday. Well, damn. I had tasty food, plenty of drink, and some friends over to watch the Daytona 500 yesterday. Everything looked good until lap 19 when there was a brief shower. They easily dried the track but before the cars could get out there, it rained again. And again. Several hours later it started raining really hard, so Nascar postponed the race to Monday afternoon. So we spent the day together enjoying the good food, drinks, and had a great time anyway.

-keep