This Took A Lot Of Guts, Could Or Would You Do This?

[piggynose]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36935087

[Old_Geezer]

Jumping without a parachute ? No, I'm not insane; and I have a healthy self preservation instinct.

[jim360]

You could pay me a billion dollars and still no. From the looks of things there were plenty of opportunities to bail out -- for the first 90 seconds at least one person was next to him in the jump -- but I wouldn't care.

Having said that, surviving a fall without a parachute is possible even without a net, as long as you have something else soft to land on that's at least a couple of metres thick, so it's probably more the principle that I object to. Good luck getting me to jump out of a plane even with a parachute...

[Bazile]

Why would you want to ?

[ToraToraTora]

can't find it but there was a bloke who jumped without a chute and had the chute was dropped out of another plane and he had to catch it and put it on, like in the opening sequence to Moonraker.

[Baldric]

I did quite a few jumps as a RM, I don't mind admitting I had help leaving the 'plane on the first one. After that I couldn't get enough of it, but, without a 'chute . . . NO WAY!!!!

[albaqwerty]

I wouldn't jump even with 2 parachutes.

How on earth did he land in the net, taking into account trajectory and wind speeds and the like?

Guy is bonkers

[piggynose]

thanx alba, my point, with wind speeds it would've been impossible, 120mph, to drop in2 a net with so much accuracy, it seemed impossible.