PointNiner Death Wish Weekend, Part 2

I was forced to grant a temporary extension on PointNiner's first Death Wish Weekend after Tom sent me this. Paul Steiner, a 45 year old Austrian man, gets his crazy on with this incredible aerial stunt. According to the Red Bull website, Steiner based the stunt off the 007 motto, "You Only Live Twice" (somewhat appropriate for this theme). At nearly 6,000 feet Steiner exits the cockpit of his Red Bull sailplane then proceeds to climb onto the wing as the aircraft begins a roll over. As it continues over, Steiner keeps moving until he is mounted on the underside of the fuselage while the aircraft is upside down. All this before jumping off the plane and sky diving down to the ground. Why am I explaining it detail by detail when you can just watch it below?

Now if Steiner could combine this act with the one from the guy who leaps from plane to plane, that would be an act I would pay to see. I wonder what their life insurance premiums are like?

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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.

[Flixxy.com]

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