ENGLAND. – Opening collectible card packs might not sound like a particularly difficult task. But try doing it while sitting on the wing of an aircraft flying through the air at nearly 200 km/h! This is exactly what a British man did to set a Guinness world record.
The 33-year-old Coby Bull from London opened seven packs of collectible cards in just 60 seconds on 13 October at Headcorn Airfield in Kent, England, while strapped to the top wing of a flying aircraft.
The aircraft, a Boeing Stearman biplane from the 1940s, flew at speeds of up to around 193 km/h. Bull had to open the packs while the wind tugged at the packaging.
He needed to open at least six packs to qualify for the record, but managed to open seven without losing any of the cards.
Bull told What's The Jam that his heart was racing and his hands went completely numb while he tried to concentrate.
According to him, the wind tugged at every package and he had just one minute to complete the task. He joked that seven packs felt like seventy.
The record was officially confirmed on 14 October according to the report.
Bull is no stranger to unusual challenges. He previously swam from the former Alcatraz prison island in San Francisco Bay to the mainland and also completed a seven-day sledging challenge in Lapland, Finland.
He is the founder of Edition One, a business that specialises in rare collectibles. His interest in collectible cards began when he was 12 years old.
Later that same day, Bull took to the air again to open collectible cards worth more than £7,000.
According to the report, among them was a rare baseball card of Mike Trout with his signature and a piece of material on it. There are reportedly only five copies of that specific card in existence.
Sources: What's The Jam; London Daily News; UPI.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
