Posted on 09/22/2018 9:38:33 AM PDT by navysealdad
French wingsuit flyers recently completed an unbelievable stunt following a B.A.S.E. jump from the top of the Jungfrau mountain in Switzerland.
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James Bond not impressed
Yeah yeah yeah, let’s see they take a REAL risk and do something even more dangerous: Tick off Hillary.
What would be interesting is if one of them overshot the plane and crashed into the prop. Oops!
I think these folks die in unprecedented rates
Youtube has channels dedicated to their fails
Crazy as it sounds a lot of them live
I saw one guy land in the trees with just a wingsuit
Crazy
Wall jumpers whose chutes hit the wall are another favorite
Fixed base jumpers die too
Smart one have the chute open from a rack on the bridge they use so they jump out to catch a lofing already open chute
That is incredible!
Adrenaline junkies and incredibly stupid ones at that.
People who display this kind of personal death-wish behavior need to be locked away for ever, preferably before they breed.
Incredible video
Very well filmed
Pilatus Porter......the workhorse of the Alps
Professor Ford used to do this, then she remembered Judge Kavanaugh and now she is afraid that she will be attacked by a Bald Eagle in Midair.
That should be the least of her concerns. Funny.
Let’s see them kick the muslims out of their country
[Yeah yeah yeah, let’s see they take a REAL risk and do something even more dangerous: Tick off Hillary.]
Hey, they’re not crazy! Even Super Dave Osborn wouldn’t try that!
Crazy.
I agree, and to those ridiculing this achievement I say, you ain't got the nuts to make a tandem jump.......pussies!
How is it a death wish? These are the same kinds of people who are test pilots, explorers, stunt men, etc. To pull off something complicated like this requires lots of planning and calculations. Mankind has benefited from the risk-takers.
Most likely they have tried numerous times to practice this stuff....If they are skilled parachutist and winged suit flyers it still is a decent stunt....If you notice they had all the camera angles set up...and they aint gonna show you all the failures...
About 25 years ago, not BASE jumping, just "regular" skydiving, a guy crashed into, and broke the stabilizer on a small g/a plane with four people on board.
The jumper survived with broken bones. The plane went down with no survivors.
The plane came in from out of state, and the pilot strayed, deviated, failed to notice, or simply ignored the aerial chart markings of restricted skydiving airspace when the flight plan was filed.
I think it was either upstate NY or maybe Orange, MA.
Thanks for posting. Just unbelievable. The descent angle of the plane gives you a good sense for how fast those wing suit fliers are dropping.
I’m sure your son has similar exploits except you probably don’t hear but a fraction of them from him. Kudos to your son!
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