Captain John Herbert Hedley was a British World war I flying ace with eleven air combat victories.

In 1918, during a World War I dogfight, British flying ace Reginald Makepeace went into a steep dive to dodge German gunfire.

Captain John Herbert Hedley who was in the back seat of the cockpit, was thrown off the plane. As the plane leveled off several hundred feet below, Hedley landed on the tail of the plane and hung on till the plane landed safely. This earned him the nickname "The Luckiest Man Alive."