Jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft without a parachute...

[andrewc]

https://youtu.be/9l_HvBKaBWw

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/31/daredevil-skydiver-jumps-from-76km-without-a-parachute



 

[Hot Flatus]

It's worth watching the video.

Madness 

[T42]

I pity his poor wife.

[lou boutin]

I felt sick just watching it.  Crazy person!!

[Jurek]

If that's how you get your kicks, what do you do next?

Kind of interested at the mindset of the crowd - they'd come to see a man do one of two things - which is different to watching it on Youtube - where had it gone wrong, I daresay the title would've been different, and you could choose whether or not to watch it.

Must confess though, my palms were very sweaty 

[Tim Hall]

If that's how you get your kicks, what do you do next?

Kind of interested at the mindset of the crowd - they'd come to see a man do one of two things - which is different to watching it on Youtube - where had it gone wrong, I daresay the title would've been different, and you could choose whether or not to watch it.

Must confess though, my palms were very sweaty 

This ^.  He would have landed on the tarmac like a lump of strawberry jam. Except he would also be a bit more like a 100kg missile. Cocking it up and hitting the crowd would be unthinkable.

[andrewc]

Ah ! We already had a discussion https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=42991.msg2062080#msg2062080

[caerau]

The comments section below had an excellent point.


Why did he bother to wear a safety helmet? 


Gloriously nuts.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

The comments section below had an excellent point.


Why did he bother to wear a safety helmet? 


Gloriously nuts.

It probably had earphones and mike? 

'Left a bit, no not my left your left..'

[Kim]

The cynic in me notes that concealing a cunningly packed reserve chute under that flight suit wouldn't be outside the realms of possibility...

[T42]

If the suit came with the same quality of zip as some of my maillots he could still have ended up en compote.

[TimC]

The cynic in me notes that concealing a cunningly packed reserve chute under that flight suit wouldn't be outside the realms of possibility...

Yes, but by the time it was obvious he was going to miss it would have been far too late to have deployed any kind of parachute. It was actually a remarkable achievement, but spectacularly pointless and macabre.

[caerau]

The comments section below had an excellent point.


Why did he bother to wear a safety helmet? 


Gloriously nuts.

It probably had earphones and mike? 

'Left a bit, no not my left your left..'

Yeah I know, I just liked the implications behind that comment 

[PaulF]

The comments section below had an excellent point.


Why did he bother to wear a safety helmet? 


Gloriously nuts.

Probably needed somewhere to mount his GoPro

[Mr Larrington]

If that's how you get your kicks, what do you do next?

The same thing but into a lake/the sea/a giant vat of shark-infested custard?

[Jurek]

If that's how you get your kicks, what do you do next?

The same thing but into a lake/the sea/a giant vat of shark-infested custard?

Ah! Yes! Custard.
Proper risk-taking.

[mattc]

The cynic in me notes that concealing a cunningly packed reserve chute under that flight suit wouldn't be outside the realms of possibility...

Yes, but by the time it was obvious he was going to miss it would have been far too late to have deployed any kind of parachute. It was actually a remarkable achievement, but spectacularly pointless and macabre.

How long was his journey? Perhaps there was a significant period when it was possible to deploy a chute, and to work out that you were miles off-target
e.g. unexpected winds, navigation gone AWOL, net gone AWOL due to "pesky kids" etc !

[Zipperhead]

If that's how you get your kicks, what do you do next?

The same thing but into a lake/the sea/a giant vat of shark-infested custard?

Ah! Yes! Custard.
Proper risk-taking.

I reckon that if you hit a vat of custard at 200kph (that's about 120mph for the brexiters) it would make an almighty slap which would sting a bit. I reckon at those sort of velocities it would either be solid or bounce him back up.

[Jurek]

If that's how you get your kicks, what do you do next?

The same thing but into a lake/the sea/a giant vat of shark-infested custard?

Ah! Yes! Custard.
Proper risk-taking.

I reckon that if you hit a vat of custard at 200kph (that's about 120mph for the brexiters) it would make an almighty slap which would sting a bit. I reckon at those sort of velocities it would either be solid or bounce him back up.

Agreed. I doubt if you'd sink into it at that sort of velocity. I think it'd most likely end up as strawberry custard. As mentioned in Tim Hall's post upstairs.

[mrcharly-YHT]

The comments section below had an excellent point.


Why did he bother to wear a safety helmet? 


Gloriously nuts.

'cause from the height he jumped, and the speeds he reached, he needed oxygen to survive and I suspect without a suit and helmet his little face would have been frozen and near ripped off.