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Well, without opening it anyway.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sky-diver-parachute-20160730-snap-story.html
Wow. Nutter.
That looks... a little close to the edge of that net 😯
Goddamn! You are one radical son of a bitch!
😯 just 😯
As on my other thread 😆
Why bother with 25,000ft, apparently you reach terminal velocity at 1,880ft
And why the helmet, wouldn't have done much to help if he had missed
I refuse to believe that happened. CGI all the way. How do you even practice something like that?
I assume you carry a ball or something. Practice by free fall as far as you can to the target, release the ball just before opening parachute, and see if the ball hits target. Simple really
Is it wrong that doing that really appeals? 😀
Not normally a risk-taker but something so ridiculously stupid like that just seems like a good way to find out if it's A) possible and B) my time to go 😛 😯 😆
Why and wow.
Would have been a tad awkward had he missed the net.
Why bother with 25,000ft, apparently you reach terminal velocity at 1,880ft
More time to steer towards target?
Helmet for helmet cam?
Been done before. A British stuntman did it a couple of years ago....but not into a be but a huge pile of cardboard boxes.
To break a record.
Been done before. A British stuntman did it a couple of years ago....but not into a be but a huge pile of cardboard boxes.
That was the first non-parachute wing suit landing, so not quite the same.
Q: If F1 drivers tubs can survive horrendous 'g' crashes - would it be possible to engineer a survival pod that could survive such a drop without a net/chute
-What is the best 125mph crumple zone?
25,000 feet, pfft, armature...
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25,000 feet, pfft, armature...Vesna_Vulovi
But she was still technically IN the plane, Nicholas Alkemade jumped out!
Bindun years ago but without a special net..
Pfft, 18,000ft.
One thing aiming for a net knowing as long as you hit it you will be ok quite cool and brave although it is not like he had never skydived before
Jumping out a burning Lancaster bomber thinking that is it is a whole nother level of bravery and kind makes the chaps jump yesterday pointless and kind of stupid in comparison.
Jumping out a burning Lancaster bomber thinking that is it is a whole nother level of bravery and kind makes the chaps jump yesterday pointless and kind of stupid in comparison.
Not really: getting into a Lancaster heading to Germany is brave; jumping out of one that is burning and guaranteed to crash is something different.
The helmet was a token gesture
[quote=maxtorque ]25,000 feet, pfft, armature...
Vesna_Vulovi
I think I prefer the outcome of this one
Am I missing the video in the ops link?
Why was he performing a dummy pull during the FF?
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Definitely looked like he was doing the sort of dummy pull you'd do in training, such as AFF. Showing you're OK with the cord location, etc.
Still, balls of something stronger than mine are made of!
So if he had a chute but didn't pull it (as opposed to not having one at all), doesn't that just mean he didn't trust his mates?
There was talk that originally he was to be required to wear a chute but at the last min they said it wasn't necessary.
CFH maybe thats the point he was doing the practice rolls ?
Surely he had a 'chute, but just didn't use it? I mean, you're jumping from 25,000 feet... There's a good chance you're going to miss the target. Parachute would be good to have in that scenario..?
There was talk that originally he was to be required to wear a chute but at the last min they said it wasn't necessary.
Yes I've just read it again. No chute apparently. Blimey.
He wouldn't wear a parachute, as it would have unbalanced him apparently.
You'd think it would be the opposite, as all his previous 18000 jumps were with one.
That's just how he rolls on to his back. If you watch the clip on the BBC website he does it twice just before hits the net.Why was he performing a dummy pull during the FF?
Crazy.
His wife and young child was watching ... Don't understand what he achieved that justified taking such a huge risk.
Right up there with the Guinness book of records entry for sitting in a bath of baked beans the longest.
Not really: getting into a Lancaster heading to Germany is brave; jumping out of one that is burning and guaranteed to crash is something different.
Makes me think of this:
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
I'm pretty sure James Bond did a jump out of a plane without a parachute or a safety net.
Johnny Utah did a parachute free jump over the Mexican desert. Saw it on a documentary. 😉
And that Jaws survived the resulting fall when his chute broke...
Yep, all been done before 😉