Tom Cruise awarded Guinness World Record for flaming parachute stunt

Watch Video Mission Impossible helps Tom Cruise earn majority burning parachute jumps Guinness World Record Tom Cruise has become a Guinness World Record titleholder for a fiery Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning stunt In the stunt Cruise jumps out of a helicopter and deploys a parachute then lights it on fire The parachute was pre-soaked in fuel and lit ablaze the Guinness World Records reported in a news release Cruise had to jump from at least feet the organization disclosed The flaming parachute could only burn for about three seconds before Cruise had to cut it away and deploy a backup chute And sometimes he was doing it while holding a -pound camera rig Cruise conducted the stunt not once not twice but times the Guinness World Records explained making him the record holder for majority of burning parachute jumps by an individual Cruise was awarded the title on June Tom Cruise attends the Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning premiere at Lincoln Center on Sunday May in New York Evan Agostini Invision AP Tom doesn t just play action heroes he is an action hero noted Craig Glenday editor-in-chief of Guinness World Records A large part of his success can be chalked up to his absolute focus on authenticity and pushing the boundaries of what a leading man can do It s an honour to be able to recognize his utter fearlessness with this new Guinness World Records title It s far from the first incredible stunt Cruise has performed in the Mission Impossible franchise Previous movies have featured him hanging from the side of a plane riding a motorcycle off a cliff and climbing the world s tallest building He is a licensed skydiver and has been a licensed pilot for over years In Top Gun Maverick Cruise also performed a number of aerial stunts The audience can tell when something s been cheated so it s central to be doing it all for-real Wade Eastwood a stunt coordinator on Mission Impossible Fallout narrated Guinness World Records This is Cruise s second Guinness World Record He holds a box office title for actor with the bulk consecutive -million-grossing movies He has movies that qualify starting with s Jack Reader and ending with Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning Source