Sebastian Alvarez trained for two years in order to perfectly fly in and out of the active volcano.
Jean Louis de Heeckeren/Red Bull
Posted on 12/16/2021 4:07:01 PM PST by BenLurkin
Dramatic video posted by Red Bull shows the 36-year-old accomplishing the death-defying feat late last month at Villarrica, a volcano in Chile that the indigenous Mapuche have dubbed “the Devil’s House.”
The thrill-seeker jumped out of the chopper at an altitude of almost 2.2 miles and reached speeds of about 180 mph as he flew into and out of the 656-foot-wide crater of the dangerous volcano.
It took Álvarez more than a year to prepare for the stunt, which required 500 practice jumps to perfect the technique of flaring to achieve the proper vertical and horizontal speeds to make it in and out of the chasm.
Sebastian Alvarez trained for two years in order to perfectly fly in and out of the active volcano.
Jean Louis de Heeckeren/Red Bull
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I’d be more impressed if it was in LaPalma
Hotshot flyer.
George Costanza was Body Suit Man... Just saying
Think of it as evolution in action.
Wing suits.... for those who want their suicide experience to last across several months.
Five Hundred practice jumps? Who bought the helicopter fuel for all that???
Wingsuit or wingnut?
Meh. Doesn’t look like he even got below the rim.
I’m trying to find a video of the late flyer, shredding himself thru a bridge railing.
Just like a kitchen mandolin.
He ain’t a pimple on Jeb Corliss’s butt.
Those guys die at a really high rate. Gary Newman, the 80s techno singer was heavily involved in experimental aviation and quit doing it because all his friends kept getting killed.
Did not know that. Interesting.
Just read his wikipedia. He was deep in aviation. Owned planes, flew around the world, survived a crash, bought a Zero replica, flew aerobatics in airshows, etc.
I had no idea.
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