25,000 ft no parachute

[Hard_Rom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h8VR7TqhiQ

A little of center.

 

[Christobal]

Another thing done that has not been done before. It might seem silly but who knows? Knowledge builds upon knowledge.

 

[pollynova]

The medical check is a high-five???

 

[Christobal]

The medical check is a high-five???

I am thinking this is a show. A BIG SHOW. Are any if the Barnums and Bailey's still alive? OK. I have just officially dated myself.

 

[RoryN]

They should've had a guy in a Spider Man costume grab him out of that net.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

When he was done they should have thrown a net over him.

 

[Christobal]

When he was done they should have thrown a net over him.

Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier with his arm in a sling and a stick to lock the hatch with his good arm? And he never told his bosses what he was doing?

 

[Hard_Rom]

He was a bit off center. Imagine if he had missed. All those paying spectators get a good view of someone doing the ultimate SPLAT. Think he would have bounced?

Astronauts trapped in space! Just jump! Who needs fancy re-entry spacecraft?

 

[OldJourno]

Next week Joe Biden is going to skydive nude from 26,000 feet and will read Atlas Shrugged on the way down.

 

[Aquagal]

Another thing done that has not been done before. It might seem silly but who knows? Knowledge builds upon knowledge.

Actually it has been done, with no net. A Brit in WW2 had to bail out of a plane with no chute. Trees and soft snow broke his fall and came away with only a sprain.

 

[OldJourno]

Actually it has been done, with no net. A Brit in WW2 had to bail out of a plane with no chute. Trees and soft snow broke his fall and came away with only a sprain.

I read years ago of a Soviet fighter pilot who ejected with a faulty parachute. He survived by landing on a snowy slope and sliding to the bottom. Some broken bones, but hey, free medical care in the USSR.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Quite a few vids of guys jumping without a chute. They don one before they get too low.

Stewardess survives 33,000 ft (10,000 m) inside wreckage
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-fall-survived-without-parachute

10 fall survival stories
http://www.oddee.com/item_96967.aspx

 

[PeteHulbert37]

Some people are adrenaline junkies, and then there's this guy!?!?!?