8km(25k feet) jump with NO PARACHUTE

Holy (!@$, talk about doing stuff that's on the edge of the death.

Skydiver Luke Aikins made a 8km / 25,000 feet jump with NO PARACHUTE:

how much money does it take to convince you to do that same?
me? dont think there's a price

Pretty epic tbh. Honestly when I first heard about this I assumed it was someone in a wing suit that was going to flare at last second and splash down in water. Is that less viable than this?

Like not flare and try and slow down enough but I mean go into a stall upwards near the water. I dunno if I'm making sense

I mean you could take a parachute with you when leaving the airplane and just not use it if you were sure you could hit the net

On August 02 2016 00:50 Santafairy wrote: I mean you could take a parachute with you when leaving the airplane and just not use it if you were sure you could hit the net

I read an article talking about how the sponsors were trying to make him wear a parachute but he didn't want to because it hurt him when he landed and then sponsors agreed at the last second. If you notice right at the end he flips over onto his back as he hits the net, I guess the parachute would be on his back and would add some impact on landing.

i have no experience whatsoever in skydiving but i got curious on how he could drive himself toward the huge net. anyone who's done it before can explain how hard/easy is it to have a decent control of your landing spot?

well this guy supposedly has made more than 18000 jumps so he was certainly experienced :D

that is an absolutely ridiculous amount tbh. like 1.7 jumps per day for 30 years-ish. sick life lol.

what an adrenaline rush you must feel the entire way down

On August 02 2016 02:25 Raidern wrote: i have no experience whatsoever in skydiving but i got curious on how he could drive himself toward the huge net. anyone who's done it before can explain how hard/easy is it to have a decent control of your landing spot?

For championship of precise landing they have to hit a 10cm^2 spot with their feet, so hitting a 50-100m^2 net should be super simple, even without parachute deployed.

Rad ? yes

stupid ? oh my yes

On August 02 2016 00:32 DooMeR wrote: Pretty epic tbh. Honestly when I first heard about this I assumed it was someone in a wing suit that was going to flare at last second and splash down in water. Is that less viable than this?

Thats impossible, wing suits bring you to about half of your normal fall rate. Half of terminal velocity is still death

Better be jumping off the plane close to the correct spot, i wonder if he was too far off if he coulda linked up with one of the other divers with a couple caribbeaners and bailed out.

On August 02 2016 09:13 Defrag wrote: Show nested quote + On August 02 2016 02:25 Raidern wrote: i have no experience whatsoever in skydiving but i got curious on how he could drive himself toward the huge net. anyone who's done it before can explain how hard/easy is it to have a decent control of your landing spot? For championship of precise landing they have to hit a 10cm^2 spot with their feet, so hitting a 50-100m^2 net should be super simple, even without parachute deployed.

This just made my head explode

yeah but being precise on a parachute is much easier, they can control it, turn, change the speed etc, being that precise on freerall is much difficult.

Actually you can see he was nowhere near the center of the net

ive read that even with him being a very experienced diver hitting the net was around 50%

On August 03 2016 16:32 dnagardi wrote: ive read that even with him being a very experienced diver hitting the net was around 50%

that has to be bullshit, there is no way he would flip for his life and get his sponsors to agree with it

On August 04 2016 04:19 Baalim wrote: Show nested quote + On August 03 2016 16:32 dnagardi wrote: ive read that even with him being a very experienced diver hitting the net was around 50% that has to be bullshit, there is no way he would flip for his life and get his sponsors to agree with it

ye 0 chance that he they would be ok with sponsoring this. if this wasnt like 98% chance of landing it

I highly doubt Felix Baumgartner's chances were that high.

This is what you do when you never have done drugs