This is Greg Gasson, and he’s either the bravest or craziest man alive. Why? He has a habit of jumping out of planes without a parachute. Sure he brings one with him — nobody’s dumb enough to leave home without it — but it’s not like he wears the thing. More »
Lucky Chance, professional badass, seems surprised himself to be alive. After flying off this cliff on the epically named Devil’s Swing, he did a triple backflip, counting on his chute to deploy. Only it didn’t, leaving him to fall 180m to certain death. More »
Sometimes, when you need a truck somewhere, you drive it there. Sometimes, you parachute it out of the back of an aeroplane. We’re not exactly sure what the story is here – probably a military exercise – but the speed with which those trucks launch out of the plane is pretty spectacular. Make sure your toe doesn’t get caught. More »
Watch this gentleman, who seems to be under the influence of drugs of some sort, flee a police officer by jumping off California’s Bixby Bridge. I think the only thing more satisfying would be escape by jetpack. More »
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Ever wondered what it’d be like to parachute into one of the largest college football stadiums in the world, with 113,000 cheering on your landing? Well, exactly like this. More »
If you’re skydiving and your parachute fails, there’s always a backup. But what if the backup fails, too? That’s when you pray that you’re jumping with a hero like Dave Hartsock, who risked his own life to save another. More »
Somehow the thrill of skydiving is lost after you’ve jumped out of a plane, had both parachutes fail, passed out before hitting the roof of a steel shed, and walked away. With video of the fall. [YouTube]
On February 4th 1912 Franz Reichelt attempted to test his latest invention — a parachute jacket — at the Eiffel Tower. He donned his apparatus and tentatively stepped to the edge of the viewing deck.
Before you decide to hurl yourself out of an aeroplane to get an adrenaline fix, take a long hard look at what happened to Hans Lange on a recent base jump in Norway. As you will see, he managed to capture the entire jump in detail using some sort of wide-angle helmet cam. I will admit that flying around in that wing suit looks exhilarating, but smashing into the ground, breaking a leg then being dragged down the side of a mountain? Not so much. [ITN and BBC]
