Skydiving expert is going to jump from 25,000ft with out a parachute into a net

[Mook]

He's a Skydiver Working With a Net, But No Parachute | U.S. News | US News

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — He's made 18,000 parachute jumps, helped train some of the world's most elite skydivers, done some of the stunts for "Ironman 3." But the plunge Luke Aikins knows he'll be remembered for is the one he's making without a parachute. Or a wingsuit.

Or anything, really, other than the clothes he'll be wearing when he jumps out of an airplane at 25,000 feet this weekend, attempting to become the first person to land safely on the ground in a net.

The Fox network will broadcast the two-minute jump live at 8 p.m. EDT (5 p.m. PDT) Saturday as part of an hour-long TV special called "Heaven Sent."

Hopefully this is being played.

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[Chester Copperpot]

in4bloodychunks

 

[radioguy6]

may hurt a little if he misses the net

 

[Jean Ralphio]

seems legit
the wingsuit community has taken some big losses lately. they don't need another

 

[Mook]

Thats doesnt appear to be a very big target.

 

[bimmer4life]

Ummmmmm

Nearby, a pair of huge cranes defines the boundaries where the net in which Aikins expects to land is being erected. It will be about one-third the size of a football field and 20 stories high, providing enough space to cushion his fall, he says, without allowing him to bounce out of it. The landing target, which has been described as similar to a fishing trawler net, has been tested repeatedly using dummies.

One of those 200-pound (91-kilogram) dummies didn't bounce out. It crashed right through.

"That was not a good thing to see," recalled Jimmy Smith, the veteran Hollywood public relations man who, with his partner Bobby Ware, sold Fox on the idea of having someone skydive without a parachute.


FCK THIS

 

[bimmer4life]

Thats doesnt appear to be a very big target.

He gonna die!

 

[Jean Ralphio]

I don't think there's any chance he misses it. Guys with that much time in freefall are able to move and manipulate themselves with precision. If anything, he's going right through.

 

[bimmer4life]

Id want two nets encase first one breaks. LOL

 

[RICH17]

I'd be worries about the bounce hes going to get. Might bounce right out of it

 

[Mook]

I don't think there's any chance he misses it. Guys with that much time in freefall are able to move and manipulate themselves with precision. If anything, he's going right through.

Thanks for the paradigm shift, DJ Khaled.

 

[Jean Ralphio]

Thanks for the paradigm shift, DJ Khaled.

 

[VenomousDSG]

One question...

Why?...

 

[Mook]

Because sail.

 

[radioguy6]

one of the crash dummies tested went THROUGH the net? That's not very reassuring

 

[Primalzer]

Well hopefully they are on top of their 3 second delay

 

[bimmer4life]

I don't think there's any chance he misses it. Guys with that much time in freefall are able to move and manipulate themselves with precision. If anything, he's going right through.

No doubts he has the skill to hit the target. But hopefully he can block everything else out. Jumping with the knowledge of always having a parachute is one thing. This is another.

 

[Mook]

one of the crash dummies tested went THROUGH the net? That's not very reassuring

 

[ChrisRac]

I hope he has a will. His family is going to need it.

 

[Jean Ralphio]

No doubts he has the skill to hit the target. But hopefully he can block everything else out. Jumping with the knowledge of always having a parachute is one thing. This is another.

That's what the sport is all about though, right? You need to have the mental capability to block out the "what if's" and perform under pressure. Even with a parachute, there is no guarantee that you live regardless of your experience level. But to your point I'm sure he'll be feeling some kind of extra stress with the media/attention. But being an experienced wingsuit base jumper is about as extreme as it gets when it comes to life-or-death situations and performing under pressure.

 

[bimmer4life]

That's what the sport is all about though, right? You need to have the mental capability to block out the "what if's" and perform under pressure. Even with a parachute, there is no guarantee that you live regardless of your experience level. But to your point I'm sure he'll be feeling some kind of extra stress with the media/attention. But being an experienced wingsuit base jumper is about as extreme as it gets when it comes to life-or-death situations and performing under pressure.

I do not disagree. And I wish him luck and I will be watching.

 

[Jean Ralphio]

lets get a poll/pool going

i say he sticks the landing and survives

 

[jason05gt]

Pretty dumb...The guy has a wife and 4 year old kid. I'd be more concerned about windsheer or thermal updrafts that he can't see or really control.

 

[Mook]

lets get a poll/pool going

i say he sticks the landing and survives

Adding poll.

 

[Jean Ralphio]

I think it was Travis Pastrana who jumped out of a plane without a parachute, right?


The article in the OP makes it sound like he's jumping without one on, which really makes it nuts. Would be more logical to jump with one on just in case and then not pull it if he is able to line up with the net.