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Two Spanish adventurers make a balloon jump with a base-style exit, do some paragliding acrobatics, slingshot into freefall and land with a flourish!
‘So crazy, it just might actually work.’ Horacio Llorens and Hernan Pitocco dreamed up this paraglider-powered high-altitude human slingshot. After a rather creative exit from a hot-air balloon at nearly 5,000m, the pair (who were harnessed to each other in a tandem paraglider) started an infinity tumble – a high-G inverted maneuver, repeated multiple times. Then, they slingshotted themselves away from the paraglider to skydive back down to earth.
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Two Spanish adventurers make a balloon jump with a base-style exit, do some paragliding acrobatics, slingshot into freefall and land with a flourish!
‘So crazy, it just might actually work.’ Horacio Llorens and Hernan Pitocco dreamed up this paraglider-powered high-altitude human slingshot. After a rather creative exit from a hot-air balloon at nearly 5,000m, the pair (who were harnessed to each other in a tandem paraglider) started an infinity tumble – a high-G inverted maneuver, repeated multiple times. Then, they slingshotted themselves away from the paraglider to skydive back down to earth.
