Tom Cruise Sets Guinness Record for Wild 'Mission: Impossible' Stunt

So we all knew Tom Cruise hung off a biplane for real in Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning , which is highly impressive on its own.

But you probably assumed that what happened next in the film involved some CG trickery (spoilers follow).

Cruise’s Ethan Hunt grabs a parachute from the damaged biplane and leaps out. But his main chute catches on fire. So Hunt cuts away his main chute and then deploys his reserve chute at the last second.

But this stunt was, also, done practically — with Cruise leaping from a helicopter at 7,500 feet in Drakensberg, South Africa with a fuel-soaked main parachute that was rigged to be set ablaze. He performed the highly dangerous stunt 16 times.

So we all knew Tom Cruise hung off a biplane for real in Mission: Impossible — The Final Reck