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This page was last updated on 06/26/2007 |
| Skydiving and base-jumping are both beautiful and exciting sports. Because of the graphic nature of sky-diving accident videos, I have refrained from posting anything here but beautiful displays of skill and technique. |
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| Basejumpers! This very large video shows people doing things with parachutes that most people would not believe is possible. |
| Bat Suit! This guy is either the bravest man alive, or the dumbest. He can't clear that mountain ridge by, what, 50 feet? |
| New 12/11/06 BirdMan! This video shows a jumper soaring into an incredibly deep gorge while wearing a bat-suit. VERY cool! |
| Head-First Plane Chasing I'm not sure who is crazier, the sky-diver that's "racing" him, or the pilot of the plane that's diving straight down... |
| Jet Diver! A skydiver, wearing a bat-suit, puts two of those little R/C jet engines on his boots, and, well, you'll see... |
| Near Miss! A skydiver comes *this* close to hitting an airplane while in free-fall... (Caution: His surprised exclamation is "R"-rated.) Look closely, and you can see the plane long before he apparently does. |
| Starburst! 81 skydivers join up to make a huge kite in the sky, followed by a beautiful starburst. |
| Stuck on the Tail! Hair-raising video of a skydiver getting sucked out of the plane and having his 'chute foul on the aircraft's elevator. All's well that ends well, however -- the guy eventually fell free and both jumper and aircraft landed safely. |
| Supersonic Skydiver! Joe Kittinger's amazing 1960 free fall from 102,800 feet made him the first supersonic skydiver -- and the first person in outer space. |
| Wingwalker! Imagine the air pressure loads as this guy stands up behind the engine? Amazing! |
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