You can't blame the skydiving consultant for serious inaccuracies in the skydiving scenes.
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Sad to say (or is it), but I just last night watched the movie Drop Zone with Wesley Snipes.īoy, I sure am glad they hired a skydiving consultant or that movie would have been so unrealistic. Can anyone corroborate this story, or any details of any other "chuteless" jumps? jmy It would be difficult IMHO, to try to don a rig, and connect the leg and chest straps, while in freefall, possible maybe. but It seems to me it was done in the 70's and I am sure I saw a video/ film of it.Ī fairly tricky stunt, but with a few practice dives, adequate altitude, and maybe back up "snaps points, " on the camera crew and even another chute holder,It was a unique skydive which was able to be accomplished. I don't remember who pulled the ripcord, maybe the "holder". holding in their hands,an old style, chest mount reserveĬontainer with a 26 or maybe 28 foot round canopy.Ī pair of Butterfly snaps, were sticking out, so that they were obvious and visible.The Chuteless Jumper and the container holder flew together to a basic two way, and the chuteless jumper clipped the rings onto the container. A fellow jumper, or maybe two, exited with him. He was wearing a harness, the webbing straps, had D rings which he held in his hands.
he freefell with webbing straps, running up the outside of his sleeves. The chuteless jumper, didn't fly into a plane. seems to me it was from the early 70's or so. Rod Pack, and maybe Bill Cole, ( not sure of name).I saw the film/video.of Rod Packs'. Now this would be great, if someone would jump without a chute, try to get in a plane & had a couple of dudes holding his rig just in case he missed his target & helped him to re-attach. You'll also discover this did-you-know? gem: On July 4, when this movie's finale takes place, Washington, D.C.'s normally restricted air space is opened to anyone with a parachute - or a bad movie idea.Haven't heard of anyone jumping chutless yet, You learn that, if you're an untrained sky diver and you jump out of an airborne 747, you'll turn into sky chow. "Drop Zone" is also a highly educational picture. Oh, the cliches that tumble from the heavens, like Snipes's convenient pal at the Justice Department, who runs a quick test on an incriminating parachute buckle or the "wacky" training sequence as Snipes takes a crash course in sky diving or Snipes's cute buddy-buddying with sky diver-ally Yancy Butler. Let's take a moment to appreciate the fine work of scriptwriters Peter Barsocchini and John Bishop, who imaginatively took "Point Break" (an action flick about surfers), strapped a parachute to its back and hurled it from a plane. This time, as they always say in these films, it's personal. (Presumably, the gaping hole in the side of the plane and the many surviving witnesses couldn't clue these idiots in.) Pending the outcome of the investigation, Snipes must give up his badge and gun. The ensuing depressurization gives Warner an early opportunity to start his next, hopefully better, movie.Ībsurdly - even for an action picture - Snipes and his late brother are suspected by the feds of causing the on-board accident.
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Gary Busey, leading a crack team of stunt sky divers, organizes a spectacular jailbreak in which the bad guys blow a hole in the side of the 747 plane and escape by parachute with Jeter in tow.
But he does have to play hero in the skies again. No, Snipes is not having a "Passenger 57" flashback. The tragedy occurs at 28,000 feet, when Snipes and Warner, accompanying convicted computer hacker (and government witness) Michael Jeter to a federal penitentiary, run into hijackers. Action heroes need something to get them really motivated, and there's nothing like a lost friend, relative or innocent to do the trick. marshal, joshes and jibes with brother and fellow agent Malcolm-Jamal Warner, whom he obviously cares for. The predictability begins immediately when Snipes, a U.S. It's the kind of third-rate movie (are there more than three rates?) that you've seen so many times you could emcee your way through the whole thing, at least 30 minutes ahead of the action.
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Director John Badham's latest contains exciting - not to mention extensive - aerial footage of men and women free falling, swooping, somersaulting and all those gravity-taunting things they feel compelled to do.Īctually, let's not accentuate the positive because, unfortunately, there's a story that tags along - or drags along - with all this footage.
So let's say that "Drop Zone," the new action picture starring Wesley Snipes, will appeal to sky divers the world over. One should always accentuate the positive.
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