Man jumps 12,500 ft from plane without a parachute



    by mad_max711

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    1. Does anyone know if there are laws against this?

      Genuinely curious, not trying to be a buzz kill lol

    2. Large_Dr_Pepper on

      I love how every time this is posted, the comments are just full of redditors bitching about littering. It’s a video of an *insane* stunt where Travis Pastrana jumps out of a fuckin airplane without a parachute, but all anyone can focus on is the one single aluminum can he dropped.

      Nitro Circus even said they found the can afterwards. But we’re perfect, infallible redditors so we can’t take that chance.

    3. Hey Travis thought this might be the time to tell you, I’ve heard about you and my wife.
      Cremation or burial buddy…….

    4. discowithmyself on

      I’m curious about the brain chemistry of people who do shit like this. I simply cannot wrap my head around why anyone would do this, or really anything in the realm of “this could kill me/cause me the most pain anyone has ever endured if I mess this up”.

    5. That red bull can reaching 200mph+ as it hits some elderly grandma walking her dog called Muffin.

    6. I’ll play the boring engineer here: this is definitely a high-consequence stunt but pretty low risk.

      The setup when they pulled the chute was a pretty standard buddy jump, it’s the same configuration that people use when they learn to skydive with an instructor.

      Terminal velocity for a person is about 120 mph, and they were about two miles up (ballpark for both numbers). That gives him about a minute to clip into a harness. I don’t know if that’s reasonable in my book, but they seemed to get it done easily enough. They pulled the chute with plenty of time to spare, and it looked like there was a backup parachuter who didn’t deploy. I would assume they had accounted for enough time that if something failed the backup would have had a shot at harnessing him before he splatted. Worst case scenario, they did it by the beach where a water impact would offer a better chance of survival.

      I’m not saying I would try this, but it’s definitely tightly coordinated.

    7. Glittering_Ad1403 on

      I’m confident this is not the first in history. It’s just previous one have no cameras or done in secrecy

    8. VirginiaLuthier on

      There are just some people who were born without the “no fucking way am I gonna try that” gene

    9. The guy took over Gymkhana after Ken Block passing.

      He is a special kind of batshit insane, but he is good at that stuff.

    10. I remember this when it was done. Travis is insane and an absolute daredevil! That being said, how did he actually parachute? Did he get tethered in, or did he just grapple his buddy?

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