flying fets. i have jumped from the eiffel tower, rid an bmx bike of beachy head, the london eye, inside the millennium dome. 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 skydive 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. and then you ve got air intakes up on the shoulders here. so it kind of inflates like a double airbag. 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.
b.a.s.e. jumper, he is no stranger to high-flying feats. i have jumped from the eiffel tower, ridden bmx bike off beachy head, i ve donnellson s collin, london eye, inside the millennium dome. 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 ve got air intakes up on the shoulders here. so it kind of inflates like a double air bed. 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 wing suit, he ll
a multi-billion dollar rice scheme. the former prime minister could go to prison if found guilty. she was forced to step down last year after a thai court found her guilty of abusing power. we re hearing from a friend of two very experienced base jumpers who died over the weekend. certainsearchers found their sunday. we have their story. three, two, one. from jumping off clip in wing suits, dane potter was an extreme sports legend and pioneer. leaping from fixed points, base jumpers fly dangerously close to the surface as they drop thousands of feet. it s illegal, but that doesn t stop people from doing it.
high cliffs and buildings and coming closer to being batman than most of us pushing the limits of human experience. and sadly, eventually he pushed too far. well-known base climber and jumper dean potter found dead on the ground in yosemite national park over the weekend after something went horribly wrong. our stephanie elam is following the story live. reporter: jake something he feared as a child, that he would fall to his death, but believe it or not it was that fear that actually drove him to take on the feats that he did. three, two, one see ya. reporter: from jumping off cliffs in wing suits to lielining, dean potter extreme sports legend and pioneer. potter died doing what he was known for. base jumping. leaping from fixed points instead of from an aircraft. baps stands for building antenna span and earth. in yosemite, base jumping is
inside the millenial dome. each of those times he used a parachute. 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 re double skin, and then you ve got air intakes up on the shoulders here. so it kind of inflates like a double air bed. we made it much thicker so it allows notice fly much, much slower. connery s idea of slow may be different from yours and mine. even with the wing suit, he will hit the ground at nearly 70 miles an hour. still, he is planning to cushion his landing using, of all things, a massive row of boxes.