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[kaz3g]

Luke Aikins: Skydiver jumps out of plane at 7,600m, lands in net with no parachute or wingsuit - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-31/us-skydiver-leaps-from-plane-with-no-parachute/7675822)

[Aussie Bob]

I was thinking of posting the same link myself but you beat me to it.
I always knew skydivers were crazy.

[Tarq57]

I'm waiting for the version when someone in a batwing suit does a run-on landing (without 'chute) onto a downslope snowdrift or similar.

Stall speed of the batsuit, anyone? Should be do-able.

(Please don't take this as encouragement, Darwinians.)

[john_tullamarine]

There was a video not all that long ago where a chap did a water landing .. quite impressive ... but, as I get older, I get less excited by excitement for excitement's sake ...

[megan]

I'm waiting for the version when someone in a batwing suit does a run-on landing (without 'chute)

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[compressor stall]

The batsuit has been done without chute into cardboard boxes.


SNAP. see above :)

[AerocatS2A]

That cheering was a bit premature wasn't it?

[RENURPP]

That cheering was a bit premature wasn't it?I guess it depends on what they were cheering about?

[tail wheel]

Definitely not the first:

Vesna Vulović is a Serbian former flight attendant. She holds the distinction of being the world record holder, according to the Guinness Book of Records, for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 metres (33,333 ft).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87

Ivan Mikhailovich Chisov (1911–1986) was a Soviet Airforce lieutenant who is notable for surviving a fall of approximately 7,000 meters (23,000 feet).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Chisov

Alan Eugene Magee (13 January 1919 – 20 December 2003) was an American airman during World War II who survived a 22,000-foot (6,700 m) fall from his damaged B-17 Flying Fortress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Magee

Flight Sergeant Nicholas Stephen Alkemade (1922–1987) was a rear gunner in Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster heavy bombers during World War II, who survived—without a parachute—a fall of 18,000 feet (5,500 m) when abandoning his out-of-control, burning aircraft over Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade

Juliane Diller (born 10 October 1954 in Lima Peru), was the only survivor of 92 passengers and crew in the 24 December 1971 crash of LANSA Flight 508 in the Peruvian rainforest. When the airliner broke up in mid-air, she survived after plummeting about 3 km (~10,000 feet) while still strapped to her seat, before crashing through the rain forest canopy and coming to rest on the forest floor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke

Soon everyone will be doing it!! :ok:

[Hempy]

Tailwheel, how many of those you listed made their jumps intentionally?

[tail wheel]

Hempy, as you would well know, it is not the take off that counts, rather the safe landing.......... :}

Besides, would any sane, rational person ever voluntarily step outside a perfectly serviceable aircraft? (With or without a parachute........ :E )

[Hempy]

lol, that friggen nutcase did!

All I can say is, despite how many jumps he might have made, he's got bigger balls than I have!

[tail wheel]

Supposedly he had 18,000 jumps to his credit. I suspect there was a fair chance his life time total could have been 18,001............ :eek:

[601]

Supposedly he had 18,000 jumps to his credit
How many failures in the 18,000 if a failure on this one would have made his total 18,001?

As for b@lls, he may have had them but he had no respect for family and friends and a doubtful quantity of grey matter.

[aroa]

601...you must remember that in America everyone wants to be a 'hero' and make a heap of dollars. Its a capitalist society, nothing wrong with that.

People of "adventurous" bent will do all sorts of things that appear selfish or stupid to others
Some die descending Mt Everest, others testing aircraft. Some might trip on the rug getting out of bed and break their neck....life is very tenuous.

I quess in this case with all his experience and much practice for this jump he would have been well aware of the risks and the likelihood of a successful 'landing'

As a skydiving junkie that must have been his biggest adrenalin hit yet.!!

I bet that target looked bloody tiny from 25,000ft. Death or Glory !!

[ramble on]

Respect to Travis Pastrana a few years back....

He also made the step with no chute and an intent to live to tell the tale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRLzvPioKG0

Amazing people pushing boundaries.

[megan]

To go where no man or woman has gone before

-C_jPcUkVrM

[Lasiorhinus]

Besides, would any sane, rational person ever voluntarily step outside a perfectly serviceable aircraft? (With or without a parachute........ )


Tail wheel, I do that every afternoon so that I can sign off and go home!

[Checklist Charlie]

There is a village somewhere missing its idiot.

CC