There is a new sport emerging high up in the sky. Flying. This isn’t your regular skydiving, this, is landing like a flying squirrel. To do it, men use suits like these (left) to slow down their speed until they can land.

Is has been done many times in the mountains but those attempts were with parachutes. People would spend 2 hours climbing hills to special “drop spots” and jump off. Going at such speeds that if they reached out and touched the mountains so very close to them, they would instantly lose an arm. Once they get to a certain height from the “landing zone” they pull there parachute which fires out horizontally instead of vertically.

Now, however, there is a man who is determined to make the first skydive from a plane without a parachute (he is the man on the left of the two pictures). He would land on a special runway moving more forward than down during flight. It would cost him over a $1 million to create the runway but with the help of an aerodynamic scientist he could slow himself down to the point where he could land (at least, thats the plan). His special runway would be made so that when he touched down he would slide on his feet until slow enough they could catch him in a net and bring him to a stop.

once done he will be the first man on earth to land a skydive with no parachute (although there are stories of people free falling over 30,000 feet and surviving, but those were accidents) and no injuries whatsoever.