This weekend, Luke Aikins is going to jump out of a plane at 25,000-feet with no parachute or wingsuit.
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A skydiver who has jumped 18,000 times with a parachute will jump out of an airplane at 25,000 feet upon Saturday – without a parachute or a wingsuit.
If the permit is granted, Fox Network will broadcast the two-minute jump at 02:00, South African time on Friday 29 July as part of an hour-long TV special called “Heaven Sent”.
“Everyone is calling this my ‘coming-out jump, ‘ which is ironic considering I’ve been skydiving since the age of 16”, he said in a press release prior to the jump.
His father and grandfather were skydivers, and his wife has made 2,000 jumps. His family owns Skydive Kapowsin near Tacoma, Washington.
But Mr Aikins would be the first person ever to make it as far as the ground without one. The words I want to say I can’t even get out of my mouth.
The 42-year-old daredevil has made 18,000 jumps.
Skydiving is not for the fainthearted, but jumping from a plane without using a parachute takes this extreme sport to a whole new level. Near the ground is a 100×100 net to catch his fall. One of those 200-pound came in with such speed that it simply crashed through the net.
Smith recalled how the three men gazed at each other with a look of foreboding after that dummy crashed through the net.
“Whenever people attempt to push the limits of what’s considered humanly possible, they’re invariably described as insane”, said Aikins before the jump.
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The live (with delay) Fox broadcast started at 8ET. That may sound big, but it’s a ridiculously tiny target for someone approaching from the sky at 120 miles per hour. This gives him confidence that he’ll be hugging his wife and four year old son Logan after he sets his fourth world record, on Saturday.
