• SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 hours ago

    You mean my clan in Battlefield 1942 wing riding on the Bomber to drop onto the far flag on Bocage was historically accurate?!

  • jumperalex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    6 hours ago

    Other than the war part of it, where do I sign up?!?!?!

    Reminds me of a bi-plane jump I did at the World Freefall Convention in the mid-late '90s in Quincy, IL. Reach up, grab a bar attached to the wing, plane goes inverted, you hang from the wing and then let go. It was as cool AF as you might imagine. Second only to the Hot Air Balloon jump. The Jet was fun because it was a 727 but it felt like any other high and fast jump. But those two? Gold man.

    • spechterEnglish
      7·
      7 hours ago

      I’m curious now, what was the weirdest thing?

      • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        7 hours ago

        During the Cold War soviets experimented with dropping soldiers from helicopters into snow. Without a rope or parachute. Just jump and pray. Went as smooth as you imagine. There is also that legend which almost certainly happened, but there aren’t any records of it. In one occasion during WW2 Russian paratroopers have been deployed from a plane from low altitude without parachutes. Again on snow. And only a third of them died.

        Now, this has been denied by the soviets. But if we look at what else the Kremlin has said over the last century, we can safely assume that it absolutely happened.