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Landed it! (Skydive landing without a chute!)
Well, this guy finally did it, although with a wingsuit designed to slow him down to a 15 mph vertical (and a 50mph horizontal) speed.
Linky Not bad. -Z |
Hmmm.... I'm not too keen on calling it a landing when he crashed into 24,000 boxes.
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Quite impressive. He probably could have even landed on water using surface effect, without the boxes.
A flaring device/flaps would have helped even more. Water skiers do that all the time with a few skips, but it ain't pretty. |
i bet that hurt like hell, the box corners would be pretty hard at 50 MPH
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That's ballsy. The "Point of no return" is somewhere around the time he stepped out of the plane.
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He'd be more famous if he did it w/o the boxes. :D
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You could NOT do that onto water falling at 15 feet/second and with a forward speed of 73 feet/second without at least injury.
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Brave, but all the grace of a wet sock. Without boxes would be the trick.
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But has he ever read Nietzsche....?
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crazy stuff.
That's still a whole lot faster than I want to be going when I "land". Quote:
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Meh.... I've jumped off a race bike at 110 before. No biggie.
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I'd bet that line of boxes look small indeed from 2400'. The way his suit kept spilling air and rocking left and right was probably a little unnerving on final approach.
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Some men and women spend time finding cures for disease. This guy is looking for a cure for being alive and not crippled. I'm sure he will succeed.
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Lets see him do it with a beer in hand like the ATV guys in the other thread.
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Stunt men jump into boxes every day. They score each side of each box first. But I wouldn't do it.
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