Have You Seen This? Coolest woman in 1926 changes plane wheel during flight

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THE WING — When I was a kid, all my friends and I thought we were daredevils. We had not done anything to earn the moniker, but we thought it, nonetheless.

I mean, there were certain things we did that required a certain level of bravery and gumption, things like rollerblading as fast as you can toward a piece of plywood you found in someone's yard and angled against an old suitcase from the garage. That was the extent of our engineering capabilities to make a ramp. There was also the time we tied one end of a rope around the trucks of a Batman skateboard and the other end to a 10-speed Huffy in an effort to pull someone on the skateboard.

These feats took a small amount of guts as everyone got hurt attempting them, especially the sacrificial kid who had to try it first.

But this incredible video from 1926 proves that no amount of speed built up on that Huffy would ever make us true daredevils.

This soundless video was shot in the skies over Los Angeles in 1926, showing first a woman pilot strapping a landing wheel to her back and jumping onto the wing of a plane. That plane is then flown into the sky, where she walks out on the wing and onto the wing of another plane that is missing a wheel. She then makes her way to the bottom of the second aircraft to attach the missing wheel.

So much is going on, and my body is a ball of knots as I watch. This woman isn't harnessed to anything as she completes her task, and she is closer to the propeller of the second plane than I am comfortable with.

On top of that, the wheel she fastens onto the plane in mid-air actually works when the aircraft lands. I can't climb a step stool and change a light bulb without dropping screws and tools galore.

I love this video, like, more than a friend. This woman is so hardcore that after she attaches the wheel she stays on the wing — because seats are apparently for suckers.