Skydiving Without A Parachute

[Gunz]

Still in disbelief that this guy made it...fuuuuck.

I think a few of those spectators in the crowd were secretly hoping he'd hit a rock. Just sayin...

I have to confess...years ago I was half-hoping Evil Kneivel would buy the farm on the Snake River Canyon jump. Just to shut him up.

 

[Ranger Psych]

I finally saw the jump. Very interesting. I laughed at the practice touches and EP's for a harness and canopy that weren't there. If he doesn't roll he hits the net dead center and "dead" is probably the optimal word in that phrase.

Hitting the net dead center isn't the issue, as he damn near did with the roll... the issue is that its way easier to "crumple" into the testicle in a scrotum configuration the net turns into around him as it stretches both by itself and it's support system takes up the energy. Hitting it in a hard arch would have made lots of things bend back in ways contrary to physical design limitations of the architecture we're stuck working with.

 

[CQB]

Meanwhile, in Colombo...

Not for the Faint-Hearted: Parachutist Crashes Into Power Lines

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Jesus.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

I bump this every once in a while because… The dude actually jumped out of an airplane without a parachute.