Sky Wake Boarding

[AggieDave 6]

This is a random/funny/beer light idea we had a couple weeks ago at the DZ after the beer light came on. Would it be possible to sort of "wake board" behind an aircraft? Use like a big sky surfing board and a long piece of cutaway-able ski line...Use a friction reel to let the line out slowly, so you don't have line dump and the subsequent ripping of the arms out of the sockets. This comes from a cartoon I used to watch as a kid (remember "Tail Spin"?), actually.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.-General George Patton-

[skycat 0]

hahahaha....and this was brought to you by the same DZ that came up with the human sling shot on creepers that put slappie out of commission.

Kelli

[freeflir29 0]

If they can extract someone with a cable....I don't think this would be that much of a problem. It would just take some specialized equipment.
"I got some beers....Let's Drink em!!!"
Clay

[PhreeZone 20]

Been done before behind a chopper. Troy Hartman did it for MTV's Senseless Acts of Video last year. The chopper could'nt go fast enough forward to put him much back, he was hanging more down then anything.
I want to touch the sky, I want to fly so high ~ Sonique

[SkymonkeyONE 4]

It was done out of both sides of a Cessna also. Two folks on trick skis I think. Looked pretty gay actually. It was on one of those "amazing video" shows.
Chuck
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[AggieDave 6]

Well, if you get the airspeed up, I'm sure you could do some interesting things, though. Like out of the back of a CASA or SkyVan, just far enough back to get out of the burble.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.-General George Patton-

[PhreeZone 20]

There was a video made of some guy trying to fly a birdman suit behind some air plane in Europe last year. Problem was that he was sund o wide, the cable was running into the sides of the skyvan door and was just shreding the plane with each spin he wsa tossed into. Sweet video.... bad repair bill....
I want to touch the sky, I want to fly so high ~ Sonique

[freeflir29 0]

"was just shreding the plane with each spin he wsa tossed into"
OOOOO...Any good footage of him getting schwacked by debris?
"I got some beers....Let's Drink em!!!"
Clay

[pilotdave 0]

Sounds like a video on my server. It'll be back up by saturday night. That one's in the /from tv/german tv/ folder. Don't remember the exact filename at the moment. A guy in a wingsuit gets dragged behind a B-25 (he crawled out where the tail gun would normally be). the cable went back and forth tearing into the skin of the plane until the harware holding the cable to the plane snaps. No good footage of him getting, ummm, schwacked. It's pretty funny... once the cable breaks he's forced to land wherever he happened to be. The end of the video is the camera crew driving up to some random house where he's sitting drinking wine with whoever lives there. I once landed in someone's front yard. They offered me a ride but not wine. Must be a european thing. Dave
www.skydivingmovies.com when it's back up.

[PhreeZone 20]

Yeah dave... thats IT!!! I forgot what plane.... Just he climbed out and it wsa a rear exit!
I want to touch the sky, I want to fly so high ~ Sonique