Posted on 05/25/2012 11:26:15 PM PDT by jwsea55
Gary Connery: stuntman completes 2400ft skydive without a parachute
A stuntman, Gary Connery, has become the first man to leap 2400 feet and safely land without using a parachute.
The 42-year-old daredevil plunged from a helicopter in a death-defying feat before landing in an area containing 18,600 cardboard boxes.
The father-of-two, a veteran of 880 sky dives, 450 base jumps and dozens of film and television roles, jumped this afternoon above Ridge Wood, Bucks to become the first person to jump from such a height and live without deploying a parachute.
The entire flight of nearly a mile took less than a minute and was only given the green light because the weather conditions were perfect.
Mr Connery, from nearby Henley-on-Thames, Oxon, dropped for three seconds before reaching speeds of more than 80mph in a specially developed wing suit that "started to fly"
(Excerpt) Read more at The Telegraph ...
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There is a video on the article page.
Lots of folks remember the story of the WWII RAF tail gunner who jumped out of a Lancaster bomber at 18,000 ft and only suffered a sprained leg.
Full story here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade
Don't newspapers do any research any more?
If I ever have cancer that goes on my bucket list.
Whoa, you better start saving cardboard boxes..what'd it say, 18,600 of them?
Thanks for the link. Interesting read. That guy gets the record for highest fall without a parachute while expecting to die. The guy in this post gets the record doing it and expecting to live. The reporter just left that part out.
Not quite a parachute but obviously a device to slow him down. Next stunt will have to be someone jumping from 3,000 feet onto boxes wearing only briefs.
If he jumped 2400 feet to land on 18,600 cardboard boxes, they must have been flat boxes. That many boxes can make a pretty high stack.
Wonder if they were filled with Styrofoam peanuts?
Wonder if they were filled with Styrofoam peanuts?
No: But his head is. No brain there.
Eventually- someone will jump from the International Space Station wearing only some sunblock, goggles and a SCUBA tank, and land on a damp sponge.
:-P
They were lined up to create a cushioned “runway” for him to land. He was wearing a very large wingsuit which created lift and forward motion. He was a human flying squirrel. There certainly was a great danger of him missing the runway and so it took a bit of skill, and nerve, to control the “glide” in order to hit the runway, so to speak.
They were lined up to create a cushioned “runway” for him to land. He was wearing a very large wingsuit which created lift and forward motion. He was a human flying squirrel. There certainly was a great danger of him missing the runway and so it took a bit of skill, and nerve, to control the “glide” in order to hit the runway, so to speak.
I’ll turn the whole thing into a charity event with me as the donor of course but, since I will also be the entertainment.....
Yeah, it will be billed as the “Live and Let Die” tour.
uhhhhhhhhh...this one is probably missing my bucketlist, rather have fun with the new Toyota FR-S/GT-86...this thing looks like an absolute blast. Greddy already has this thing tuned to 600HP.
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Thanks for the extra cases, I thought it was a B-17 in WWII I remembered, but Google found the RAF Lancaster. It just shows the reporter missed even more occurrences...:^)
Yeah, he was wearing his parachute.
Lets see him HALO jump in his skivies onto a pile of angle farts! Now THAT would be impressive.
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