Fact 282: How many skydives did Tom Cruise do to train for Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning?

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Fact 282: How many skydives did Tom Cruise do to train for Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning?


Tom Cruises did more than 500 skydives to train for Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning and trained "for a few years" (-Tom Cruise) to do speed-fly at over 50 miles per hour, in fact Tom Cruise said he lands at speeds of "80 mph" when speed flying, "speed flying is incredibly unpredictable" according to Christopher McQuarrie.
Speed flying is an advanced version of Paragliding which use a fairly small, high-performance paraglider wing, which looks like a thin parachute to quickly descend heights for example Tom Cruise in a video on the Mission Impossible Instagram, he descended off mountain in the Lake District.


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