I hate it when I find something to post to the sift only to see it got posted less than a week before me.

Booo! Didn't realize that was gold star only...

Well, the video is still dead.

*dead

Indoors at Texas Stadium no less, home of the Dallas Cowboys.

I'm not sure what the circumstances were, but it was probably in the playoffs for the state championship.

I did a cursory search for this and couldn't find it on videosift... kind of surprising.

Where was this filmed? It looks picturesque even for a non-dare devil.

Another one of Erik Mongrain's clips.

Mix posted another one of his clips a while back.

Wow... that has the potential to go so incredibly bad.

What's the terminal velocity with that canopy?

I kept thinking he was going to run out of snow and bite it on the rocks.

"Vaporized"? It looks like it just fell off the post.

Paging Corporal Punishment...

There are a lot of suppositions to be made since I don't know what the design load limits for the 777 are. Per the Federal Aviation Regulations, the positive load factor required for this category of airplane is between 2.5g and 3.8g at maximum takeoff weight. At the minimum that means the wings must support between 2.5 and 3.8 times the force of gravity to be certified. The significance of 154% on the video is that they were trying to get to 150% of the design load limit before structural failure.

Anyway... the maximum take-off weight of a Boeing 777-200 is 554,000 lbs (keep in mind, this is now the smallest, lightest 777 on the market. The newer Boeing 777-300ER is 775,000 lbs., the 747-400ER is 910,000 lbs, and the upcoming 747-800 is tentatively at 970,000 lbs. For comparison's sake, the A380's is 1.235 million lbs.) That means that wing was supporting one half the take-off weight multiplied by between 2.5 and 3.8 - between 692,000 and 1052600 lbs, and that is just for 100% of the load limit!

I'm glossing over lots of subtleties, but the general idea still stands. That's a lot of force!

I like how the Disney voiceover guy is so upbeat and skips at the end.

They're a lot easier to change when you spell it tire.

Silly English...

Reminds me of Eddie Izzard's bit on differences between British English and American English.

"And we say herbs (with the "H" sound) cause there's a ****ing "H" in it."

That plane's wing is made from wood and fabric. It's pretty soft.

I want to know, was the "thwap" added in the editing bay or is that how it sounded?

Poor guy...