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posted by martyb on Friday July 29 2016, @03:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the aiming-for-a-record dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/28/skydiver-luke-aikins-jump-without-parachute-live-tv

"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 [7600 m] this weekend, attempting to become the first person to land safely on the ground in a net."

[...] "To me, I'm proving that we can do stuff that we don't think we can do if we approach it the right way," he answers.

"I've got 18,000 jumps with a parachute, so why not wear one this time?" he muses almost to himself. "But I'm trying to show that it can be done."


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Friday July 29 2016, @06:58PM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Friday July 29 2016, @06:58PM (#381667) Homepage

    Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit

    A parachutist without a parachute is just some guy. Some guy to jump from 25,000ft without a parachute.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @09:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @09:45PM (#381755)

    "Some guy to jump from 25,000ft without a parachute."

    This is how the papers in France will report it (except it will be in French and the distance will be 7700 m). They won't mention his name; it'll just be un gars.