View Full Version : Skydive 25000 Feet Without a Parachute
Bailey Guns
07-30-2016, 20:18
I just heard about this today. A guy named Luke Aikins jumped out of a plane from 25k feet and landed in a net about 50 yards square (I think) suspended about 150' above the ground by 4 cranes. I'm guessing on some of the details there but that's what it appeared to be.
Why on earth would you do that?
I didn't see it live but watched it here: https://twitter.com/HeavenSentAPE
Scroll down towards the bottom for the video
I didn't watch the video, but I used to skydive in the 80's and I ain't buying it. You need oxygen over 12-13,000 feet, and even spotting your landing area is tough from that high. Getting to it is tough too. But from 25,000 ft? Mmmm....
Not to mention winds aloft blowing you off course, and the terminal velocity speed you'd reach from that high. Not saying he didn't do it, just smells a little bs'y to me. I'll try to watch it on something besides my phone.
I didn't watch the video, but I used to skydive in the 80's and I ain't buying it. You need oxygen over 12-13,000 feet, and even spotting your landing area is tough from that high. Getting to it is tough too. But from 25,000 ft? Mmmm....
Not to mention winds aloft blowing you off course, and the terminal velocity speed you'd reach from that high. Not saying he didn't do it, just smells a little bs'y to me. I'll try to watch it on something besides my phone.
He had 3 other skydivers jump with him (they had chutes)
He handed off the oxygen to one of them at appropriate altitude.
He rolled over and landed on his back in the net and wore one of those foam collars to keep from turning into a vegetable.
Saw this was coming in the news earlier in the week. I wonder if they warned people at the beginning of the show...."Do not try this at home." [Coffee]
Saw this was coming in the news earlier in the week. I wonder if they warned people at the beginning of the show...."Do not try this at home." [Coffee]
yes they did, and I found the whole thing to be rather boring.
GilpinGuy
07-31-2016, 06:07
WTF is next? Lunatic. Biggest balls on earth though. Could he even see the net from 25k feet?
buffalobo
07-31-2016, 08:34
I wonder how many attendees in the crowd were there hoping he'd pile drive on their Facebook live stream. Then they could pretend how scary and tragic it was while racking up likes.
yes they did, and I found the whole thing to be rather boring.
+1
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I didn't watch the video, but I used to skydive in the 80's and I ain't buying it. You need oxygen over 12-13,000 feet, and even spotting your landing area is tough from that high. Getting to it is tough too. But from 25,000 ft? Mmmm....
Not to mention winds aloft blowing you off course, and the terminal velocity speed you'd reach from that high. Not saying he didn't do it, just smells a little bs'y to me. I'll try to watch it on something besides my phone.
At that altitude it's probably approaching -40F, not including wind chill factor....
StagLefty
07-31-2016, 10:16
I actually watched it on 31-55 minutes of boring hype !! It was kind of interesting watching him do it but I could have wasted an hour on something else.
BPTactical
07-31-2016, 12:18
UPS just delivered 8 boxes of "Nope".
I think I will use them here.
HoneyBadger
07-31-2016, 13:13
His resistance to the natural selection theory is considerable. It'll be some time before it finally gets him.
He's certainly had plenty of opportunity, so it's not due to a lack of trying. [Coffee]
OK, so I found the video on another forum, no Tweeter involved. Looks real enough, but that boy's plumb ignan't.
ChadAmberg
07-31-2016, 14:07
Funny thing is, all that and it won't even be a world record. Vesna Vulovic has it at 33 thousand feet. Of course, she hadn't planned on doing it... and she didn't even have a net!
Bailey Guns
07-31-2016, 15:27
Too much controversy surrounding her crash.
Double00
07-31-2016, 15:57
National Geographic Channel is showing it at 4:00 Channel 276 on Direct TV
Honey Badger282.8
07-31-2016, 22:02
Dude has balls of steel. Also, the amount of prep that went in to this stunt was amazing, almost two years of prep work. For example, he had PAPI lights built into his helmet so he can stay on path with the target.
Bailey Guns
08-01-2016, 06:41
...he had PAPI lights built into his helmet so he can stay on path with the target.
I wondered how he was lining up with that net. That's pretty amazing.
Aloha_Shooter
08-01-2016, 07:51
All kinds of ballsy but jumping out of a perfectly good airplane without a parachute seems to me like asking Bill Clinton to watch over your nubile 17-year-old daughter while you go off to study apes in Uganda for a year ...
I wonder how many attendees in the crowd were there hoping he'd pile drive on their Facebook live stream. Then they could pretend how scary and tragic it was while racking up likes.
Nobody ever went to an Evel Knievel show hoping to see him boringly land jump after jump...
Marine24
08-01-2016, 12:48
https://youtu.be/fWOOoXtiXiA
I do almost everything without a parachute. Big deal.
BushMasterBoy
08-01-2016, 13:52
Safer than a balloon ride in Texas.
a perfectly good airplane
No such thing.
HoneyBadger
08-01-2016, 17:08
https://youtu.be/fWOOoXtiXiA
Nice video.
My favorite comment:
I'm surprised the weight of his balls didn't break the net
https://youtu.be/fWOOoXtiXiA
On a serious note. I think my heart rate went up just watching that.
hollohas
08-03-2016, 11:27
I think that's pretty freaking amazing. Insane. But amazing.
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[facepalm]
Safer than a balloon ride in Texas.
Ouch.....
jhood001
08-03-2016, 22:27
I do almost everything without a parachute. Big deal.
Congrats on your first born! :)
Congrats on your first born! :)
That's closer to the truth than you know.
Actually, I think I told you that story, so you probably already knew. :p
jhood001
08-03-2016, 22:36
That's closer to the truth than you know.
Actually, I think I told you that story, so you probably already knew. :p
And it was a blessed event. I'm just poking some fun when your guard drops, brother!
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