Don't let Broone see this

[Rocket Chucker]

It may have been posted elsewhere within PPrune - if so please feel free to publicly humiliate me!!

Check this out:

http://www.biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=4262

But don't let Two Jobs in on it - if he finds out thet you don't need aircraft to fly it'll be 'asta la vista' for the RAF.

Per Ardua

[ORAC]

Flying Humans, Hoping to Land With No Chute (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/sports/othersports/10flying.html?hp)


Jeb Corliss wants to fly — not the way the Wright brothers wanted to fly, but the way we do in our dreams. He wants to jump from a helicopter and land without using a parachute.

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And his dream, strange as it sounds, is not unique. Around the globe, Mr. Corliss said, at least a half-dozen groups — in France, South Africa, New Zealand, Russia and the United States — have the same goal in mind. Although nobody is waving a flag, the quest has evoked the spirit of nations’ pursuits of Everest and the North and South Poles.

“All of this is technically possible,” said Jean Potvin, a physics professor at Saint Louis University and a skydiver who does parachute research for the Army. But he acknowledged a problem: “The thing I’m not sure of is your margins in terms of safety, or likelihood to crash.”

Loïc Jean-Albert of France, better known as Flying Dude in a popular YouTube video, put it more bluntly: “You might do it well one time and try another time and crash and die.”

The landing, as one might expect, poses the biggest challenge, and each group has a different approach. Most will speak in only the vaguest terms out of fear that someone will steal their plans.................

[PPRuNeUser0211]

Now that is the way ahead.........

[Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!]

He wants to jump from a helicopter and land without using a parachute.He won't be the first though.

There was a bloke up in Norway riding in a JetRanger, leans on the door handle, falls out and quick as a flash, unzips his parker and opens it out like wings.

He lived to tell about it too, though in Norewgian.





...erm allegedly.

[Gainesy]

...from a 3ft hover.:)

[Alber Ratman]

I refer coments on flying in this video to Buzz Lightyear. "This isn't flying.. It's falling with STYLE!!":D:D

Stuning photography WHATEVER!!!:ok:;)

[Rakshasa]

'Fools rush in' and all that. I was more impressed with Yves Rossy's stubby winged jet pack.