Skydiver Luke Aikins jumps without parachute -Balls

12 Responses to Skydiver Luke Aikins jumps without parachute -Balls

1. Ronbo says:

   August 1, 2016 at 02:12

   He did it.

   He may be the only man living to have survived a jump without a parachute from such a high altitude.

   Courage or stupidity? Hero or a lost soul needing professional help?

   The answer depends on your prospective.
2. mara says:

   August 1, 2016 at 02:36

   I’m glad I wasn’t his mother or wife.
   • Ronbo says:

     August 1, 2016 at 02:48

     ….and I’m glad I’m not the guy who sold him his $1 million life insurance policy….I would have had a heart attack watching that stunt.
3. KG says:

   August 1, 2016 at 03:21

   It’s the first time a person has voluntarily done it. And good for him.
   There were several cases of bomber crew during WW2 who survived it.
   • Brown says:

     August 1, 2016 at 17:40

     Yep, Alan Magee, already seriously wounded, fell out of a doomed B17 without a chute over St Nazire at about 20,000 feet and survived a fall onto the arched glass roof of the railway station. Didn’t walk away but recovered thanks to a skilled German surgeon and was eventually repatriated to the US through the Red Cross. There were others but I can’t recall details.
     • KG says:

       August 1, 2016 at 18:13

       A Lancaster tail-gunner, from around 12.000ft (I think) on to pine boughs and into snow, Brown.
4. Gregoryno6 says:

   August 1, 2016 at 10:07

   I don’t where his balls are after that, but mine have crawled up and a currently keeping company with my kidneys.
   Congratulations to the man for his courage and his planning, but we could be in for a series of Evel Knievel-style copycat events. And most of Evel’s emulators came off second best.
5. Odakyu-sen says:

   August 1, 2016 at 12:35

   Beware of windage. It would only have taken a single thermal to go off on that hot, sunny day and he would have missed the net.
   • Ronbo says:

     August 1, 2016 at 20:39

     There are so many things that could have went wrong with that stunt that it tells me the Big Guy In The Sky decided not to call in his number.

     Thus proving once again that when your number ain’t up – It ain’t up.

     Personally, I don’t see the need to climb tall buildings, mountains and/or jump from 25,000 feet without a parachute to court death, when crossing a busy urban street is dangerous enough.

     Why be in hurry to meet God? Take your time. Take your time.
     • KG says:

       August 1, 2016 at 20:52

       
6. Seneca III says:

   August 2, 2016 at 00:24

   Well, I’m just a few jumps short of 600 but even in my prime that would have called my balls into question, never mind now in my dotage.
   • KG says:

     August 2, 2016 at 05:30

     Just over half that figure here, Seneca II, so I’m not in the running.
     I surely do admire the man’s balls.