Skydiver to jump 25,000 feet into a net without a parachute!!

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MongGrel

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G'damnit I drop down in a roller coaster and 4 seconds in I'm wishing for it to end... WTF is this about a 2-min freefall. That's some BS.

Roller coasters used to bother me when I was younger.

A lot of times it is a bit of a mind set, if you think of it as being in an open air fighter plane it makes it easier, I usually try to get in the front car on those when I've went for decades now and imagine I'm in a F-16 or something

Went to Busch Gardens in Tampa years ago on a slow day and while the others were wandering around I think me and a friend did that at least 12 times, in between beers :biggrin:
 
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skyking

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I guess technically without a parachute, sure. I know not one but two guys who fell with unactivated chutes tho, both military. In one of them, they swapped parachutes with their commander last-minute, pulled the chute, nothing happened, pulled the emergency, nothing happened, passed out from something like 13k feet, and survived. iirc someone had stapled the commander's chute shut. They were never able to prove who it was. My buddy broke every bone in his body, but lived...he can even walk today, just has a limp. The other dude was a friend of a friend, lives on a morphine drip but is alive! I think his just had a malfunction & didn't open, nothing malicious afaik. Crazy stories tho...last time I saw the guy with the limp, he had gotten married & had a few kids. You know it's not your time to go when you fall out of an airplane & hit the ground & don't die

It sounds fun to do, but I keep hearing wild stories like that. One of my old roommates was working on becoming a skydiving instructor; his instructor was tragically killed when a gust of wind blew her into the highway during descent & she hit a tractor-trailer head-on at 80mph. He was depressed for awhile but continued doing skydiving, but eventually decided he liked flying airplanes more than jumping out of them.

Maybe they'll make a skydiving VR game. That's about as close as I want to get to that stuff
I posted 3 links above where WW II aircrew bailed out without a chute, preferring that to burning alive. The chutes were burned or otherwise unusable anyway.
 
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