{"id":1215150,"date":"2025-02-09T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215150"},"modified":"2025-02-09T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T16:34:00","slug":"skydiver-hooks-plane-in-mid-air-gets-towed-up-for-another-skydive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215150","title":{"rendered":"Skydiver Hooks Plane in Mid-Air, Gets Towed Up For Another Skydive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&#8220;Can you skydive continuously without landing&#8230;?&#8221; asks Red Bull. Imagine jumping out of a helicopter, &#8220;only to latch onto a speeding plane in mid-air and soar back up into the sky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harnessing the plane&#8217;s momentum, [skydiver Max Manow] soared out of the canyon, embarking on what he calls his &#8220;endless skydive&#8221;, a manoeuvre that potentially could be done continuously without him ever needing to land&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>After exiting a helicopter, he manoeuvred his wingsuit to close the gap with a nosediving Cessna 182, piloted by Luke Aikins. Precision was key: Manow attached himself to a hook on the aircraft as the plane descended, allowing him to ascend back to a safe altitude of 2,500 feet before releasing into another freefall&#8230; Manow spent five months training, including sessions in a Stockholm wind tunnel, to master the techniques needed for mid-air connection. Meanwhile, Aikins modified his aircraft to ensure the feat was safe and repeatable.<br \/>\nSkydiver Max Manow&#8217;s goal was to develop a manoeuvre that could potentially be repeated an infinite number of times without ever having to land. Manow&#8217;s mid-air manoeuvre opens the door to a new vision of skydiving, where athletes could remain airborne without ever needing to land. Reflecting on the experience, Manow said: &#8220;Who knows where this will take the future of the sport?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If that wasn&#8217;t enough adrenaline for you,&#8221; writes New Atlas, &#8220;a previous bonkers wingsuit stunt from 2017 is equally jaw dropping, in which a pair of skydivers BASE-jumped off a mountain summit, and entered a passing airplane.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Skydiver+Hooks+Plane+in+Mid-Air%2C+Gets+Towed+Up+For+Another+Skydive%3A+https%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F09%2F048253%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/twitter_icon_large-2.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F09%2F048253%2Fskydiver-hooks-plane-in-mid-air-gets-towed-up-for-another-skydive%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/facebook_icon_large-2.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/25\/02\/09\/048253\/skydiver-hooks-plane-in-mid-air-gets-towed-up-for-another-skydive?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=23604579&amp;smallembed=1\" style=\"height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Can you skydive continuously without landing&#8230;?&#8221; asks Red Bull. Imagine jumping out of a helicopter, &#8220;only to latch onto a speeding plane in mid-air and soar back up into the sky.&#8221; Harnessing the plane&#8217;s momentum, [skydiver Max Manow] soared out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215150\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slashdot","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}