Skydiving Into a Falling Airplane.

By Alex in Sports, Video Clips on Mar 5, 2007 at 2:01 am

I really don’t know what motivates someone to jump out of one plane and freefalls into another falling plane – then jump out of that one and skydive to the ground!

Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Spluch

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andy
Mar 5th, 2007 at 10:30 am
flippin’ sweet
Ali
Mar 5th, 2007 at 11:36 am
Now that was cool. I wish I can do sky diving one day.
Jason
Mar 5th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Docking in mid-air is one of the last skills a skydiver learns on the way to receiving his “A” license. I had to repeat that lesson four times before I finally got it. I’ve been working on it with a friend of mine who’s roughly the same skill level (most definitely not an instructor) for a couple of weeks and finally succeeded.

This is a really neat trick. As for the motivation–does “because it was there” still count for anything?
Altidude
Mar 6th, 2007 at 12:13 am
Jason is talking about docking with another skydiver in freefall, obviously. That’s a fundamental part of sport skydiving. Docking with a plane is not.

For anyone interested, I have some examples of freefall docking here, and you can see the original plane-chasing experiments and other nutty skydiving business on Joe Jennings’ DVD “Good Stuff” at JoeJennings.com.

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