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Don't let Broone see this
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.
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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.
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Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Flying Humans, Hoping to Land With No Chute
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.................
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.
VideoMore Video »
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.................
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He wants to jump from a helicopter and land without using a parachute.
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.
