Life changed after that jump . . . I'd suddenly stepped to the highest level of daring, a level above even that which airplane pilots could attain.
Source: describing his first skydive
-- Charles A Lindbergh, (Feb 4 1902-1974), US aviator; The Lone Eagle, made 1st solo nonstop trans-Atlantic flight NY to Paris, 1927; wrote The Spirit of St. Louis, 1953.