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Wingsuit flyers BASE jump into a plane in mid-air
http://www.drdavehouseoffun.com/flyers.html ^

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at drdavehouseoffun.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: basejumping
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1 posted on 09/22/2018 9:38:33 AM PDT by navysealdad
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To: navysealdad

James Bond not impressed


2 posted on 09/22/2018 9:42:07 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: navysealdad

Yeah yeah yeah, let’s see they take a REAL risk and do something even more dangerous: Tick off Hillary.


3 posted on 09/22/2018 9:43:59 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Vox populi, vox dei)
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To: navysealdad

What would be interesting is if one of them overshot the plane and crashed into the prop. Oops!


4 posted on 09/22/2018 9:46:34 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Vox populi, vox dei)
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To: navysealdad
I would never jump out of a perfectly good airplane... but, if push came to shove, I'd jump at the opportunity to jump into a perfectly good airplane.
5 posted on 09/22/2018 9:49:11 AM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: navysealdad

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


6 posted on 09/22/2018 9:53:03 AM PDT by wardaddy (I donÂ’t care that youÂ’re not a racist......The Hill just zotted me for saying libtard)
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To: navysealdad

That is incredible!


7 posted on 09/22/2018 9:53:15 AM PDT by ataDude (.)
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To: navysealdad

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.


8 posted on 09/22/2018 9:54:11 AM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: navysealdad

Incredible video

Very well filmed

Pilatus Porter......the workhorse of the Alps


9 posted on 09/22/2018 9:56:49 AM PDT by wardaddy (I donÂ’t care that youÂ’re not a racist......The Hill just zotted me for saying libtard)
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To: navysealdad

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.


10 posted on 09/22/2018 9:57:19 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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That should be the least of her concerns. Funny.


11 posted on 09/22/2018 10:01:35 AM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Let’s see them kick the muslims out of their country


12 posted on 09/22/2018 10:04:04 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

[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!


13 posted on 09/22/2018 10:08:57 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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14 posted on 09/22/2018 10:12:03 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: navysealdad

Crazy.


15 posted on 09/22/2018 10:12:11 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: ataDude
That is incredible!
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I agree, and to those ridiculing this achievement I say, you ain't got the nuts to make a tandem jump.......pussies!

16 posted on 09/22/2018 10:17:17 AM PDT by sailor76 (Trump is our last hope!)
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To: txnativegop
People who display this kind of personal death-wish behavior need to be locked away for ever, preferably before they breed.

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.

17 posted on 09/22/2018 10:18:25 AM PDT by kabar
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To: sailor76

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...


18 posted on 09/22/2018 10:25:54 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
There can be worse mishaps.

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.

19 posted on 09/22/2018 10:50:19 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: navysealdad

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!


20 posted on 09/22/2018 11:09:45 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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