Skydiver Plans To Jump From Plane At 25,000 Feet With No Parachute

cbsla ^ | 07/28/2016

[BenLurkin]

“I have 18,000 jumps jumping out with a parachute on my back and here I’m 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.

“It’s actually like a big hammock. It kind of cradles you and cups you and it’s 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 he’s outside the safety zone and white if he’s above the net.

Aikins doesn’t have any doubt he’ll make it.

During rehearsals at Big Sky Ranch in Simi Valley, he has landed in the same spot 73 times in a row.

[umgud]

They don’t make an airplane big enough to hold all the people it would take to throw me out.

[EagleUSA]

Long bungee cord might be fun....

[Paladin2]

It’s a skill job for those who can focus.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

See you on the other side.

[Talisker]

He has a 4 year old son. IMO, he’s irresponsible.

[A message]

I sure wouldn’t sell him life insurance.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

74th time’s the charm!

[sagar]

[EinNYC]

Would he prefer in-ground burial or cremation?

[lee martell]

When you run out of things that excite you in any way, there’s this.

[wally_bert]

Bring a spatula.

[Blood of Tyrants]

THe next Darwin award winner.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Another fool who won’t die at home in bed of old age!

[headstamp 2]

[They don’t make an airplane big enough to hold all the people it would take to throw me out.]

“Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane is an unnatural act.”

Gunny Highway

[BigEdLB]

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[butlerweave]

Jaws did it , LOL

[digger48]

[Raycpa]

Can’t he buy adrenaline?

[Big Red Badger]

Splatter Rat!