connery sets the world recorder for the highest sky dive without a parachute. videos from local news and spectators hit the internet within minutes and go viral. i wouldn t say my life has changed dramatically. i m certainly asked to do things in the past i wouldn t have been asked to do. things like parachuting dressed as the queen of england in to the opening ceremony of the 2012 summer games in london. i think everybody likes to test themselves every so often. i m no different but my testing maybe goes a little bit higher. coming up oh holy ! an unexpected takedown. i was absolutely horrified. i didn t know if he was going to be able to get up. when caught on camera, brace yourself continues.
a half mile in the sky. certainly the feeling or the thought of this could be your last few moments does go through your mind. connery takes the plunge. above him, another catcher catches his descent on helmet cam while connery s supporters take video from the ground. connery maneuvers his suit to direct him toward the target. he has a parachute he can deploy if he thinks he might miss but below 100 feet, it won t do any good. as i approached the boxes, one has to make a commitment or not. i remember everything just settling. connery crashes in to the boxes and disappears in to the pile. for a few tense moments, the crowd is unsure if he s okay.
last few moments does go through your mind. connery takes the plunge. above him, another catcher catches his descent on helmet cam while connery s supporters take video from the ground. connery maneuvers his suit to direct him toward the target. he has a parachute he can deploy if he thinks he might miss but below 100 feet it won t do the any good. as i approached the boxes, you get to the point of no return where one has to make a commitment or not. i remember everything just settling. connery crashes in to the boxes and disappears in to the pile. for a few tense moments, the crowd is unsure if he s okay. then he emerges without a scratch.
one s fall. my rate was 350 feet long, 42 feet wide and probably 12 feet deep. a team of more than 100 friends and supporters spends all morning building the landing area before connery puts it and himself to the test. i remember walking with my wife across to the helicopter helicopter and we had a big hug and squeeze and cuddle and kiss and she walked off in tears. and that caused me to be in tears. it s no surprise connery s wife is concerned. between the years, 2000 and 2012, more than 50 people died in wing suit jumps. think helicopter climbs to 2400 feet, the height of two empire state buildings, if you stack one on top of the other, nearly
each of those times he used a parachute, but this jump is different. if he succeeds, he will be the first person ever intentionally to sky dive without using one. connery spent months working with a designer to create a custom wing suit. wing suits are basically suits made of simple material. they are double skinned. then you have air intakes up on the shoulders here. so it kind of inflates like a double air bag. we made it much thicker. so it allowed me to fly much, much slower. connery s idea of slow may be different from yours and mine. even with the wind suit, he ll hit the ground at nearly 70 miles an hour. still he s planning to cushion his landing using, of all things, a massive row of boxes. cardboard is amazing stuff really in terms of breaking