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Offline deSelys

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First wingsuit landing without using a parachute
« on: May 24, 2012, 02:12:23 AM »
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/sports/englishman-connery-completes-successsful-wing-suit-landing.html



This guy has planet-sized balls of titanium...





PS Hitech, can you model 18600 cardboard boxes at every field, please? Chutes just got obsolete. Kthx.
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Re: First wingsuit landing without using a parachute
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2012, 02:19:39 AM »
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Re: First wingsuit landing without using a parachute
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2012, 09:35:16 AM »
Not the first wingsuit landing....just the first where the jumper survived.  :devil
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Re: First wingsuit landing without using a parachute
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2012, 10:33:24 AM »
He beat Jeb...  :cry
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Re: First wingsuit landing without using a parachute
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2012, 11:58:41 AM »
Yeah but Jeb did the 1st touch-and-go with a wingsuit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEFCQRwj28w

 :rock   :O

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Re: First wingsuit landing without using a parachute
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2012, 12:30:41 PM »
I still want to see Jeb land on the ramp, that is gonna be more amazing and harder to perform than landing on hundreds of boxes
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Re: First wingsuit landing without using a parachute
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2012, 02:07:31 PM »
Quote from: deSelys on May 24, 2012, 11:58:41 AM
Yeah but Jeb did the 1st touch-and-go with a wingsuit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEFCQRwj28w

 :rock   :O



Yeah only 2 broken ankles , a broken fibula, and a gash that needed skin grafts. That's what I want in my documentary.

I like his Tianmen Hole Jump better.

Ah life is good :)  .... could be worse.

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Re: First wingsuit landing without using a parachute
« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2012, 01:35:01 AM »
Quote from: F22RaptorDude on May 24, 2012, 12:30:41 PM
I still want to see Jeb land on the ramp, that is gonna be more amazing and harder to perform than landing on hundreds of boxes
Giant slip-N-slide. :aok
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Re: First wingsuit landing without using a parachute
« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2012, 02:16:46 AM »
Quote from: rpm on May 25, 2012, 01:35:01 AM
Giant slip-N-slide. :aok
With the factor of dying to spice it up a bit  :D
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Re: First wingsuit landing without using a parachute
« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2012, 07:26:29 AM »
a new record yes, fine, but its nothing for the masses you only miss once the boxes and its game-over,
i still pefer to land with my chute deployed ;)
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Re: First wingsuit landing without using a parachute
« Reply #10 on: May 25, 2012, 10:47:42 AM »
Quote from: Gh0stFT on May 25, 2012, 07:26:29 AM
a new record yes, fine, but its nothing for the masses you only miss once the boxes and its game-over,
i still pefer to land with my chute deployed ;)

I wonder what his insurance premium is going to be once the salesperson sees this video.  :ahand
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Re: First wingsuit landing without using a parachute
« Reply #11 on: May 25, 2012, 01:50:08 PM »
Great big balls.
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Re: First wingsuit landing without using a parachute
« Reply #12 on: May 26, 2012, 11:19:47 AM »
Quote from: Shuffler on May 25, 2012, 01:50:08 PM
Great big balls.

Wonder if he wore a cup?
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Re: First wingsuit landing without using a parachute
« Reply #13 on: May 26, 2012, 02:20:06 PM »
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Re: First wingsuit landing without using a parachute
« Reply #14 on: May 26, 2012, 02:21:30 PM »
Quote from: mtnman on May 26, 2012, 11:19:47 AM
Wonder if he wore a cup?

Probably one for each since they dont make titanium planet sized ones.
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