Oh… h-e-double hockey stick… NO! But good for these guys willing to do it.
Just when you thought you’d seen every wild Red Bull stunt, two BASE jumpers went and got themselves fired out of a chimney.
Dani Roman from Spain and Fred Fugen from France were launched out the top of a 1,181 foot smokestack in Trbovlje, Slovenia. It’s the tallest chimney in Europe. A team of Slovenian stunt engineers built the world’s biggest human catapult inside it, and that thing is nearly 200 feet long.
The numbers are bananas:
- 0 to 112 mph in 2.15 seconds
- Up to 4.2 G’s on the way out
- Almost 1,500 feet above the ground at the highest point
Once they cleared the chimney they kept going up, floated weightless for a split second, and then parachuted back down.
They walked away with two Guinness World Records. Dani set the record for greatest height by human catapult, rising about 329 feet after he left the launcher. Then the two of them launched side by side and set the record for greatest combined height by human catapult, almost 500 feet.
Red Bull says they’re the first people ever catapulted out of a chimney. Honestly, who else would sign up for that?
Watch the whole thing below. Your stomach might drop a little.
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