Hank Blankenship and the Longest Fall: 154 Years from Home

Hank Blankenship jumped out of a plane in 2024. He landed in 1870.

Henry "Hank" Blankenship is seventeen years old, a Wyoming cowboy at heart, and the proudest member of the Buffalo Sky Devils - six teenagers who jump out of a rented Cessna on weekends because the sky is the only place where Hank feels like he was born in the right century.

His friends say he should have been born a hundred years earlier. On a Saturday morning in May, he finds out exactly how right they are.

The freefall is no...