Posted on 07/28/2016 7:02:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin
I have 18,000 jumps jumping out with a parachute on my back and here Im gonna do it without anything.
His safety net will actually be a net: 100 feet by 100 feet. It will be about 200 feet above the ground.
Aikins will be traveling at around 120 miles per hour when his body hits it.
Its actually like a big hammock. It kind of cradles you and cups you and its really soft in the beginning and it hits a little bit hard at the end, he said.
Aikins will use his own body to position his free fall directly into the net.
I lean forward to go forward. I lean sideways to move sideways and backwards to move backwards, he said. I just guide my body until I find myself right over this target.
The net is surrounded by special lights that shine red from up above if hes outside the safety zone and white if hes above the net.
Aikins doesnt have any doubt hell make it.
During rehearsals at Big Sky Ranch in Simi Valley, he has landed in the same spot 73 times in a row.
(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...
It’s been done before - during WWII and on a non-voluntary basis.
This B17 gunner fell 22,000 ft. and survived after falling through a glass roof but was severely injured -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Magee
This RAF gunner ell 18,000 ft. and only sprained his leg -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade
Sounds like the fresnel lenses used as landing lights on aircraft carriers. Different colors to tell you if you're high/low/on the correct glide path.
Civilian airports also (”PAPI” glide slope lights): http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato/service_units/techops/navservices/lsg/papi/
Officials at ACME Corporation, makers of the net, declined comment, citing current legal action against their company by noted film star Wile E. Coyote.
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Tape delayed on the West coast...probably won’t air on the West coast if he doesn’t make it. ;-)
All I can think of is, his wife must be a real peach.
For the greasy stuff left behind:
Which reminded me, for some reason, of . . .
I think that’s the clip I had in mind. :)
Just an hour to go until the JUMP.
Heart rate only 148?
Glad he was successful for his wife, kid and those on the scene sake.
Hopefully this won’t result in copycat stunts.
3 min clip of the whole jump
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X_uDt5nd1JE
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