This Day, That Year

Item from Nov 16, 1992, in China Daily: Taiwan stuntman Ko Sau-leung flies over the Great Wall on his motorcycle yesterday morning at the Jinshan Mountain Ridge Section. Ko is the first to make the dramatic jump, staking a claim to be mentioned in the Guinness Book of World Records. The stunt biker leaped over the ridge's beacon tower from a 100-meter ramp and landed successfully on the opposite side on another ramp of 50 meters. He was about 50 meters in the air.

Following his 1992 Great Wall act, Taiwan stuntman and actor Ko Sau-leung used a sports car to jump 55 meters over the Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River at the border of Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces to celebrate the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997.

Ko, who was crowned "Asia's Greatest Flying Man" for his feats, died of blood poisoning in Shanghai on Dec 9, 2003. He was 50.