Skydiving Into a Falling Airplane.

Posted by Alex in Sports, Video Clips on March 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!

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4 comments to "Skydiving Into a Falling Airplane."

  1. andy
    March 5th, 2007 at 10:30 am

    flippin' sweet

  2. Ali
    March 5th, 2007 at 11:36 am

    Now that was cool. I wish I can do sky diving one day. :(

  3. Jason
    March 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?

  4. Altidude
    March 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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