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.

Per Ardua

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.................

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

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.

...from a 3ft hover.:)

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:;)

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