Exit without parachute

[captain1976 0]

Anyone, didn't BJ Worth do one a few years back?

You live more in the few minutes of skydiving than many people live in their lifetime

[skydiverek 56]

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Been done in the early 90's by a French guy named Alain Prieur. They use 2 different plane, he was wearing a harness with riser oufitted with "B12" type quick connectors. Patrick Passe "swooped in the canopy put in a free bag type deplyoment system with two rings sticking out of the bag for the risers to attatch to. The bag was attached to his chess with a cutaway system. He would just dock on Alain, at which time Alain hooked up the riser, the bag was the release from Patrick chess and the canopu would be deployd when the bag was released. Patrick deGayardon was flying back up with a tandem rig just in case.

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB2IT3GhDDo

[Decodiver 0]

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Been done in the early 90's by a French guy named Alain Prieur. They use 2 different plane, he was wearing a harness with riser oufitted with "B12" type quick connectors. Patrick Passe "swooped in the canopy put in a free bag type deplyoment system with two rings sticking out of the bag for the risers to attatch to. The bag was attached to his chess with a cutaway system. He would just dock on Alain, at which time Alain hooked up the riser, the bag was the release from Patrick chess and the canopu would be deployd when the bag was released. Patrick deGayardon was flying back up with a tandem rig just in case.

They did this LIVE on French TV, I have a Copy of the tape. Alain was later killed while doing the stunt at an airshow. It is rumored that he did that jump 5 or 6 times. A malfonctioned canopy killed him, not failure to get it to them in freefall.

Glenn

Here's a link to Prieur's first jump without a chute with Patrick Passe and a rather young Deug.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB2IT3GhDDo

Prieur died on a subsequent jump where he stepped from one glider to another and then slipped without a chute, they got to him in freefall with a chute but only had time to fix one of the clips, the chute was opened and the clip gave way and he fell to his death. This was in 1991.