Comments on: Skydiving Into a Falling Airplane. http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/skydiving-into-a-falling-airplane/ The Neat Side of the Web Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:33:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Altidude http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/skydiving-into-a-falling-airplane/comment-page-1/#comment-84572 Altidude Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:13:05 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/skydiving-into-a-falling-airplane/#comment-84572 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 <a href="http://altidude.blip.tv" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and you can see the original plane-chasing experiments and other nutty skydiving business on Joe Jennings' DVD "Good Stuff" at <a href="http://www.joejennings.com/GS.htm" rel="nofollow">JoeJennings.com</a>. 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.

]]> By: Jason http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/skydiving-into-a-falling-airplane/comment-page-1/#comment-84460 Jason Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:34:53 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/skydiving-into-a-falling-airplane/#comment-84460 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? 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?

]]> By: Ali http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/skydiving-into-a-falling-airplane/comment-page-1/#comment-84391 Ali Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:36:57 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/skydiving-into-a-falling-airplane/#comment-84391 Now that was cool. I wish I can do sky diving one day. :( Now that was cool. I wish I can do sky diving one day. :(

]]> By: andy http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/skydiving-into-a-falling-airplane/comment-page-1/#comment-84384 andy Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:30:17 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/05/skydiving-into-a-falling-airplane/#comment-84384 flippin' sweet flippin’ sweet

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