Gary Connery: stuntman completes 2400ft skydive without a parachute

The Telegraph ^ | 23 May 2012 | Andrew Hough, and Richard Alleyne

[jwsea55]

Probably neither for Chris...he probably has had a bit to many of the fumes hit him on the test drives.

Ken Gushi is definitely wearing a helmet on this one. GReddy FR-S at Laguna Seca

Glad I am not paying for the clutch, brakes and tires for these guys adventures.

[Chode]

my favorite US track after The Glen...

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

2400 feet is nearly a mile? Wow, I didn’t realize inflation was so bad, that even mileage distance is only worth half what it used to be.

For the less mathematically inclined, a US mile is 5,280 feet. The jump was nearly “half” a mile.

Not to take away from the feat...

[jwsea55]

I think the reference to a mile was supposed to be horizontal distance.

Then, again, these are the Brits who still call themselves Great Britian. As I recall, all that is left of the greatness is a bunch of islands west of the North Sea. At least there was entertainment in an other man's ambition.

Can you imagine his 3rd grade teacher listening to his life's ambition. "Let me understand this. You are going to jump out of a helicopter with no parachute three quarters of kilometer in the air and land on a bunch of cardboard boxes."

[SunkenCiv]

As if there’s *anyone* who could do otherwise. ;’) thanks jwsea55.