Is This Dude Nuts Or What?
This guy is going to jump out of a plane without a parachute tomorrow on "NBC Today."
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx/?mkt=en-us&vid=076c94a9-1714-42c9-874c-434e586cd887&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:be59aa39-e555-47d8-82ba-c83dc9ba3296,8f681602-85d3-4c71-8c5e-5c2b8cacc926,6ad5bb18-54cd-48a5-b752-9897d61aba1f&from=MSNHP&tab=m17>1=10856&wa=wsignin1.0
Sure, he's got some amazing outfit that allows him to glide instead of drop like a rock, but it's still crazy.
He says no one has done it before. Well, no one has done it intentionally, but I do know of a guy who survived a chuteless fall.
I don't remember his name, but I met him back in the early 1990s when he was a professor for Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.
While parachuting from like 10,000 feet up, his main and backup chutes failed, but instead of becoming a greasy spot upon landing, he not only survived the fall but managed to get up and walk away with only some scratches and bruises.
He somehow came in at an angle and did a long slide into home plate in a ploughed field.
I occasionally ponder the idea of making a parachute jump, but then I think about the Southwestern professor and dismiss the notion.
I get enough danger and thrills just taking State Highway 105 to and from work without getting into a wreck.
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx/?mkt=en-us&vid=076c94a9-1714-42c9-874c-434e586cd887&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:be59aa39-e555-47d8-82ba-c83dc9ba3296,8f681602-85d3-4c71-8c5e-5c2b8cacc926,6ad5bb18-54cd-48a5-b752-9897d61aba1f&from=MSNHP&tab=m17>1=10856&wa=wsignin1.0
Sure, he's got some amazing outfit that allows him to glide instead of drop like a rock, but it's still crazy.
He says no one has done it before. Well, no one has done it intentionally, but I do know of a guy who survived a chuteless fall.
I don't remember his name, but I met him back in the early 1990s when he was a professor for Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.
While parachuting from like 10,000 feet up, his main and backup chutes failed, but instead of becoming a greasy spot upon landing, he not only survived the fall but managed to get up and walk away with only some scratches and bruises.
He somehow came in at an angle and did a long slide into home plate in a ploughed field.
I occasionally ponder the idea of making a parachute jump, but then I think about the Southwestern professor and dismiss the notion.
I get enough danger and thrills just taking State Highway 105 to and from work without getting into a wreck.
posted by Brian Pearson at 11:26 AM
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