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How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? #1313452
03/02/2012 21:09
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This is the maddest thing i've seen .......
good soundtrack for once too.


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Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1313506
03/02/2012 23:36
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Give us a clue or a link please...


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Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1313508
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Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1313588
04/02/2012 13:21
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Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: whatmoretyres] #1313594
04/02/2012 13:37
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Wow! Quite a trip.....

Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1313603
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Well, it was alright once he remembered he had an aircraft strapped to his back... altogether too close to the ground on one or two occasions: no choices if it went wrong.


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Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1313607
04/02/2012 14:08
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I think that if I was diagnosed with a terminal illness, flying in one of those 'squirel' suits would definitely be at the top of my 'bucket' list.

By shocked he was close!!!

Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: barnacle] #1313608
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Scary stuff and not something I'd ever want to do shocked

Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1313631
04/02/2012 15:50
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is this the same guy that said he wants to land it next.


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Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1313642
04/02/2012 16:30
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He's an idiot if he is - there's a basic rule for foot landed aircraft: don't try and land faster than you can run. I can land a paraglider dead still into the wind, but with no wind it's more likely to be about 10mph. He's moving four or five times that speed.

Wing suits are for people tired of life. To try and land one, you have to be *very* tired.


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Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1313679
04/02/2012 18:37
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Good old Jeb Corliss.One craaaaazy man crazy
I would have thought he might have put his squirrel suit away after the stunt with his friend Dwain Weston went fatally wrong...
Still,if it's his drug he's always going to be chasing the rush.

Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1313680
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Mental crazy but what a stunt laugh

Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1313691
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Margin for error is nill there. It must be completely exhilarating though! How do you top something like that?
Incredibly silly thing to do but he doesn't look like he hates life

Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1313697
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Mental!!!! Crazy crazy man!


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Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1313879
05/02/2012 14:32
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My friend just sent me this Link

If you had, "he's already dead" on your sweepstake, it seems you were close!

Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1313886
05/02/2012 14:58
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If I may return to my earlier statements?...

Interesting that the hospital spokesman is 'Michelle Norris' - any relation to Chuck, I wonder?


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Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: barnacle] #1313972
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shocked The word 'rush' comes to mind.

Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1345877
23/05/2012 20:54
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as i said above i had hurd that some guy was going to land it soon, well he has now but not this guy.no link yet but was on the news at 6


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Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1345963
23/05/2012 23:57
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Yes, I saw it on you tube today, he jumped from a helicopter into a load of cardboard boxes ooo


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Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1346059
24/05/2012 11:35
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skydiver-aims-land-without-parachute-000521624.html
Edit: I though that was the video, but on closer look it is just an article about it with photos, and a video with him from before doing it.

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Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1346060
24/05/2012 11:38
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And for my next trick I'm going to land without the aid of some empty cardboard boxes crazy

Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1346061
24/05/2012 11:39
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Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1346063
24/05/2012 11:53
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It does make me chuckle that probably billions has been spent improving impact protection and all sorts of various different materials and substances created.

And the stuntman's material of choice is still 'the cardboard box'.

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It is an amazing stunt no doubt, but can he really claim to have been the first man to skydive and land without a parachute? I would say he strategically crashed without a parachute and lived. There have been other recorded instances of people living after skydiving and the parachute not working because they crashed into trees or water, which to me is similar to what this guy did techincally. Obviously this guys did it deliberatly and did it with skill, but I'm not sure I'd techincally call it a landing.

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Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1346079
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Pah. Jaws (in Moonraker) landed without a chute at all onto a big top - a much smaller target.


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Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1346084
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To quote Toy Story, he was falling with style laugh

Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1346142
24/05/2012 16:36
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Kids stuff, Flt Sgt Nicholas Alkemede did it from 18000 feet in 1944 on his way back from Berlin.
There were others around that time too.


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Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1346150
24/05/2012 17:06
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I was trying to remember his name.


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Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1346152
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I read this a few years back and was amazed by some at some of the tales of survival, rear gunners falling with their chutes on fire and landing in trees or snow drifts, great read.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Into-Silk-Ian-Mackersey/dp/0583127932

Re: How long will he live..sweepstake anyone? [Re: jasgol] #1346353
25/05/2012 10:33
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Im sure its not as dangerous as it looks. laugh

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