Sunday, September 28, 2008

PointNiner Death Wish Weekend

I was originally going to put these videos up here as three separate posts but I think a theme weekend sounds like more fun now. I mean, who doesn't love a good theme weekend? All three of these are great videos with amazing footage and some seriously messed up people doing ridiculously ludicrous activities. The term "living on borrowed time" comes to mind.


This first video is about a guy who rides on the outside of a MD 500 helicopter to climb onto high voltage power lines for inspection purposes. I love his quote at the end, "there's only three things I'm afraid of...electricity, heights and women."




As if skydiving weren't extreme enough, the guy in next video really pushes his luck to the edge by jumping from one aircraft to another while free falling. Using the drogue chute to slow the other aircraft down was kind of a cool concept though.




And finally we wrap up with some European flair as this Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm BO-105 does a little stunt flying through a German forest. This one looked like the most fun to me but I still think it requires a psycho analysis.



Now see, what did I tell you? Theme weekends really are fun...and in this case frightening too.

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1 comments:

tom said...

in that case you might like these ones as well. i've kept them in my favorites for a while now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR5bDfD5XV8

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42ccXj_gmgw