Actor and producer Tom Cruise was awarded a Guinness World Record title for the most burning parachute jumps by an individual with 16 jumps while shooting a stunt for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

While playing super spy Ethan Hunt for the eighth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise, Tom Cruise performed his own stunts – which has become one of his trademarks. The star leapt out of a helicopter 16 times while strapped to a parachute pre-soaked in fuel and lit ablaze, before cutting away the charred remnants of the first chute and safely deploying a backup. No other actor or stuntman has come close to that amount of burning drops, and his dedication was rewarded with the record title on June 4, 2025.

Cruise and his crew were no strangers to amazing aerial action shots, especially after the 2018 film Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Cruise became the first actor to ever complete a HALO drop (high altitude, low open) on camera. To replicate the feeling of a secret spy mission, the team used an actual military tactic of flying extremely high to 25,000 feet, then dropping Cruise, who plummets at 200 MPH to below 2,000 feet before deploying his parachute in order to sneak into a country without being detected.