First Skydiver to land without a parachute!

IrishGuyIrishGuy Posts: 258
edited May 2012 in A Moving Train
Not sure if anyone else was following this but a british stuntman has just made aviation history by becoming the first skydiver to land safely without the use of a parachute.
He jumped out of a helicopter and using a wingsuit he "glided" down to land in a pile of cardboard boxes.

http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/article/16233460

Totally crazy in my mind but hats off to the guy. :crazy:
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    cool. you know i was thinking about something like this the other day whilst 1300ft up in the sears tower. i wondered if there was any way i could hit the ground if the glass cubes gave way and live to tell the tale. tho i of course would not have the benefit of a winged suit of any kind. :think:
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  • Bronx BombersBronx Bombers Posts: 2,208
    Dudes nuts but that's as badass as it gets
  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,158
    I'm guessing this guy doesn't have life insurance.
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jason P wrote:
    I'm guessing this guy doesn't have life insurance.


    nor do i. ;)8-)
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  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    that guy's nuttyer than an outhouse mouse..but he has some big ones for sure.

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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    Copycat.
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  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,158
    :lol:
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  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    This is still my favorite wingsuit video ever....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfph3iNC-k

    He shoots through this small gap in the trees at an unreal speed (about 1:15 in)... there is a ground view replay after that that is sick.
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    This is still my favorite wingsuit video ever....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfph3iNC-k

    He shoots through this small gap in the trees at an unreal speed (about 1:15 in)... there is a ground view replay after that that is sick.

    OMGOODNESS, the speed thaty guy was traveling was incredible. One miscalculation anf he has a broken neck or WORSE Wow!

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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    g under p wrote:

    OMGOODNESS, the speed thaty guy was traveling was incredible. One miscalculation anf he has a broken neck or WORSE Wow!

    Peace

    oh it can get worse

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbLjfpRn_0o
  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    norm wrote:

    oh it can get worse

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbLjfpRn_0o

    Here is his video with some different views of the crash
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEFCQRwj28w

    From Wikipedia:
    On 16 January 2012 in an accident while proximity flying off Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa Jeb broke both ankles, three toes, his fibula bone, tore his left ACL, and sustained a gash in his shin that required skin grafts to close.
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Here is his video with some different views of the crash
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEFCQRwj28w

    From Wikipedia:
    On 16 January 2012 in an accident while proximity flying off Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa Jeb broke both ankles, three toes, his fibula bone, tore his left ACL, and sustained a gash in his shin that required skin grafts to close.

    cool...i was trying to find a better video of it...if anyone hasn't seen the real sports profile, you should...this dude is fascinating
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    This is still my favorite wingsuit video ever....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfph3iNC-k

    He shoots through this small gap in the trees at an unreal speed (about 1:15 in)... there is a ground view replay after that that is sick.
    I like the comment "Watching this makes me feel not alive"... Seriously, fucking awesome.
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  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,158
    This is a list of base-jump / wingsuit fatalities since 1981.

    http://www.blincmagazine.com/forum/wiki/BASE_Fatality_List

    184 and counting.
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  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,309
    Plenty of skydivers have landed without a parachute. The key word is "successfully".
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  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    years ago i heard that more than one person has landed on the ground without a parachute opening and they lived and it is because they came in sidewides like,,,or some shit

    also during this conversation they said someone literally walked straight thru a planes spinning propeller.

    frickin what the frig
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  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    BinFrog wrote:
    Plenty of skydivers have landed without a parachute. The key word is "successfully".
    high speed dirt....thank you

    http://youtu.be/2z0LoC7sh2s
    lyrics are on the thingy :mrgreen:
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    chadwick wrote:
    high speed dirt....thank you

    http://youtu.be/2z0LoC7sh2s
    lyrics are on the thingy :mrgreen:

    Do it if you dare
    Leaping from the sky
    Hurling thru the air
    Exhilarating high
    See the earth below
    Soon to make a crater
    Blue sky, black death
    I'm off to meet my maker

    Energy of the gods, adrenalin surge
    Won't stop til I hit the ground, I'm on my way for sure
    Up here in the air, this will never hurt
    I'm on my way to impact, taste the high speed dirt

    Paralyzed with fear
    Feel velocity gain
    Entering a near
    Catatonic state
    Pressure of the sound
    Roaring thru my head
    Crash into the ground
    Damned if I'll be dead

    Energy of the gods, adrenalin surge
    Won't stop til I hit the ground, I'm on my way for sure
    Up here in the air, this will never hurt
    I'm on my way to impact, taste the high speed dirt

    Jump or die!

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    High speed dirt...



    The lyrics are perfect this sort of adrenalin RUSH! To the poster of the jump video where he clips the cliff....
    OOUUCCHH!

    One day I'm going to do a tandem jump. 8-)

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