10 metre take off run - off a cliff !!

[Tiger G]

This guy was reported to have testicles weighing in at 20kilos each :eek:


LiveLeak.com - Cliff diving in Alaska with the DoubleEnder Prototype

[grafity]

I want a go!! :}

[Tarq57]

Basically, powered base jumping.

[OpenCirrus619]

You could pop up the Mynd (http://www.longmynd.com/) and try a bungee launch.

Bungee launching at the Mynd - YouTube
(launch is at 2:30)

OC619

[pulse1]

OC619,

Thanks for posting that. It brought back happy memories of a gliding holiday there in the mid 60's. First bungee launch was in a 50 kt wind in a Capstan. On the second go, I hadn't noticed that the wind had moderated a bit and I came in much too fast. My instructor closed the brakes and we did a touch and go back into the hill lift. The third launch was solo in a Swallow, straight into my one and only experience of wave soaring, sadly too short as it was getting dark.

[Dave Gittins]

42 years since I had 2 weeks flying off the Mynd ... what a great experience it was too.

Looks like it's the same K-13 as well.

[Dawdler]

That launch over the glacier would have been some recovery job if it had all gone wrong!

[Old skool Alex]

Looks like fun, would bring a new meaning to engine failure after take off tho.

[Pace]

The best I saw was the pilot who rolled off a mountain engine off and glided engine off to a valley airfield where he landed engine off
Will try and find the video

Pace

[IFMU]

The dead stick takeoff! My hero!

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[Pace]

That is the one :) one crazy guy! He almost hit a pile of rocks on his takeoff got the landing site wrong more a landing site not an airfield.

Pace

[IFMU]

I bet he left little to chance. Probably started off low power, idle power, then deadstick. Those rocks may be hard to hit due to an increase in the slope. As far as where he landed, I think he ended up right where he intended. Looks like fun, but the hills out here in the plains are not quite high enough for me to try it.
Bryan

[Capot]

As I recall it, from the point of view of a terrified passenger, that technique, or something quite like it, was used routinely at Saiq in the Jebel Akhdar in the 1970s by SOAF Skyvans operating at military MTOW and STOL regs, and sometimes - whisper - by a GF Skyvan operating under Public Transport regs, but only when no-one was looking.

But memory is a fallible guide, so probably they did no such thing.

[Cobalt]

I bet he left little to chance. Probably started off low power, idle power, then deadstick. Those rocks may be hard to hit due to an increase in the slope. As far as where he landed, I think he ended up right where he intended.

Almost definitively so. Right before touchdown you can see the tracks of an earlier landing to the left, so he was there at least once not too long before.

Overall, not what I would call a risk free pursuit, but he most likely approached this with a bit of caution.