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How It Will WorkAfter leaping from the plane, Aikins will track through the air in a belly-to-ground position and quickly reach a terminal velocity of 120 miles an hour (193 kilometers an hour). Using his GPS, he’ll attempt to square up to the center of a specialized 100-by-100-foot (30.5-by-30.5-meter) net, which Aikins says will stop his fall as softly as if you were to stand on a trampoline and merely drop onto your back.
The net, dubbed the “Fly Trap,” is indeed designed to provide Aikins with that life-saving soft catch—assuming he actually strikes the 28-by-28-foot (8.5-by-8.5-meter) “sweet spot” in the center of the net. The net will be suspended between the tops of four 200-foot (61-meter) cranes. The netting itself is constructed from Spectra, a high-density polyethylene cord that is twice as strong as steel, but also completely inelastic. Once Aikins’ plummeting mass strikes the net, four compressed air cylinders, which are connected to the netting via ropes and pulleys, will slow Aikinsdown down in the same way that you might catch an egg in your hand—by decelerating it gently over a distance.
Aikins will wear an oxygen mask for the first 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) of descent, then pass it off to a member of his support team, who will be skydiving next to him (with a parachute, of course). Aikins will rely on two indicators to make certain he’s falling directly over the Fly Trap: his GPS and four specialized lights that will provide the visual confirmation that he’s on track to strike the sweet spot in the netting. When he’s around 200 feet (61 meters) above the netting—or, a little more than one second away from impact, as he’ll be falling at around 176 feet (53.6 meters) a second—Aikins will roll and tuck his chin, so that he lands on his back.
“If I wasn’t [nervous] I’d be silly, and I shouldn’t do it,” Aikins confessed during his interview with Q13 Fox.
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PUBLISHED July 29, 2016
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/features/skydiver-luke-aikins-freefalls-without-parachute/
