A London trading-card collector has set a Guinness World Records title by opening seven packs of trading cards in 60 seconds — while strapped to the wing of a biplane, 600 feet above Kent, in winds of about 120 mph, without losing a single card.
Coby Bull — spelled “Colby Bull” in some outlets — is the founder of Edition One, a trading-card company. He was harnessed to the wing of a 1940s Boeing Stearman biplane, operated by The Wing Walk Company out of Headcorn Aerodrome, for the attempt. Guinness required a minimum of six packs for a new record; Bull cleared seven, opening 2025-26 Topps Chrome Update Series Basketball Hobby packs.
Sixty seconds, 120 mph winds
The flight took place on 13 October 2026, and Guinness certified the record the day after. It was widely syndicated on 5 November 2026 — the flight date, not the syndication date, is when the record was set. Opening a pack of cards is fiddly work at a kitchen table. Doing it at 600 feet, in a 120 mph slipstream, with the cards trying to leave, is a different proposition entirely. Bull lost none of them.
He is not a man who does things the easy way. Bull previously swam to and from Alcatraz, and crossed Lapland by sleigh over seven days. The wing walk adds a Guinness title to a list of stunts that already reads like a dare.
A record that needed a plane
Guinness World Records has categories for almost everything, and “most trading-card packs opened during a wing walk in one minute” is now one of them — with the bar set at seven. The next challenger will need a biplane, a harness, a steady hand, and cards they do not mind losing to the wind. Bull kept all of his. That, as much as the seven packs, is the achievement.
The wind is the detail that makes the record. At 120 mph, a card is a leaf; a pack is a handful of leaves. Opening seven packs without losing one means Bull’s hands were faster than the slipstream, and his grip was better than the wind. The plane did the flying. Bull did the rest, one pack at a time, sixty seconds, seven packs, no losses.
