Gary Connery Completes First Successful Wing Suit Landing Without Using a Parachute

by E.D.W. Lynch at 12:22 PM on May 24, 2012

Yesterday British stuntman Gary Connery became the first person to successfully land in a wing suit without using a parachute (video). Connery jumped out of a helicopter at an altitude of 2,400 feet and dropped for 40 seconds before landing in a massive “runway” of cardboard boxes laid out for him in the English countryside. He was unharmed.

via The New York Times

video via ITN News, photo by Eddie Keogh/Reuters

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