The Human Slingshot - High Altitude Paragliding

CLICK CC for English!!! ’So crazy, it just might actually work.’ That’s the only thing we can imagine was going through Horacio Llorens and Hernan Pitocco’s heads when they 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 parag