Hollywood stuntman Eddie Braun worked on various films, including Marvel’s The Avengers, War Dogs, and Sully.
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Legendary motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel successfully jumped hundreds of daunting obstacles in his career, but he’s arguably best known for the incredible one that got away – his failed 1974 attempt to jump Idaho’s Snake River Canyon.
The canyon east of the Hansen Bridge, along Idaho 50, is about 1,400 feet at the spot where Braun jumped, 200 feet narrower than where Knievel jumped.
September 8, 1974: Knievel makes Twin Falls the center of the universe for a day by attempting to launch his X-2 Skycycle, designed by Robert Truax, over the Snake River Canyon.
He looked at the stunt as a way to pay homage to Knievel, who inspired him to become a stuntman.
Evel Knievel’s family was at the site for the jump, Times-News reporter Tetona Dunlap said on Twitter.
Before he embarked on his attempt daredevil Braun had asked his young son to walk his sisters down the aisle at their weddings if he died during his attempt. Continuing with “I’m simply finishing out his dream”.
In this Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016 photo, rocket designer Scott Truax, left, talks with professional stuntman Eddie Braun at the team’s shop in Twin Falls, Idaho.
He also said he didn’t care if people thought him insane. “How many people get to finish the dream of their hero?”
But the mystique of Knievel’s failed stunt has lived on, with would-be daredevils showing up every decade or so to propose similar jumps.
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“I was so mad at that engineer”. Although the 50,000 spectators he said would show up didn’t materialize, those who came upset locals by skinny-dipping, partying excessively and fighting. Both times, his project went nowhere.
