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On Saturday, July 30, by American extreme Luke Aykins performed a truly insane and astounding stunt. Skydiver jumped without a parachute from a height of twenty-five thousand feet, that is, seven thousand six hundred twenty meters!
Luke got on a light aircraft and climbed to a height of over seven and a half kilometers above the city of Symi Valley in California. When the aircraft flew over a network stretched below thirty by thirty meters, Akins jumped down without a parachute and any insurance. By the time of landing, its fall rate was over fifty three meters per second!
Extreme was not going to die
As the colleagues of the forty-two-year-old athlete note, the last spent in free flight about two minutes. Hard to say, how much the American believed in the success of his plan. Judging by all the same, he still did not plan to go to the other world, because it is believed that people falling from great heights and ready for demise die in the air from a broken heart.
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Extreme successfully fell into a huge network and quickly got out of it under general cries and applause. Once on the earth, joyful Aykins immediately approached his wife Monica and son Logan, after what hugged relatives. By the way, the daredevil’s wife herself is actively goes in for parachuting – for this reason she allowed the chosen one is at risk, but insisted on helping to the husband with the preparations.
Comrades for a long time convinced Luke to take a parachute with them, however, the man flatly refused, claiming that all his charm the trick is precisely the lack of this device. Eventually the athlete not only survived, but also set a world record jump heights without a parachute with vital outcome.
Extreme fall and landing
Aykins is one of the most experienced and reputable skydivers of the planet. Born in a family of parachute fans Sports, he began to jump independently at twelve years. Only for the American made eighteen thousand jumps with the plane. It is easy to calculate that he does this more often than one once a day. Any problems at a height arose for Luke in all thirty times during his career, and in all these cases he was saved parachute.
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Aykins does not deny that the risks were enormous. At first, rapid pressure drop could cause daredevil will lose consciousness, and the body for this reason will not be able to correctly to land. Secondly, the network has been tested countless times, however, no one dropped eighty kilograms of it seven kilometers high. If there is the slightest damage to the network, most likely, it would be torn, which would lead to the death of Luke. AND, thirdly, the athlete had to catch an incredible speeds to turn around and fall into the network with your back, and not your stomach – in otherwise, he could significantly damage his internal organs.
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