If it was one of these wind tunnel instructors against the WWE guy I expect the fighter would stand little chance...UNLESS the fighter got hold of him, then the other way round. But I'm guessing the relative agility of the instructor would make that virtually impossible, almost a certainty if the WWE/MMA dude (gal?) wasn't at least fairly exposed to several of these flights beforehand, at least to the point of developing a fair amount of proficiency. Interesting idea. :-) With two novices (tunnel novices) involved it might be hilarious, actually.
I love how the instructor knew the guy was going to freak out and drop like a rock. I wonder if that has happened and the people go right to the top before freaking out
I’m watching this with my headphones on, I see him fall and how he straddles the instructor’s face and let out an enormous laugh, waking up my wife. 😂😂
@@seinfan9 The major reason it is, I'm guessing, is not only supply and demand, and limiting that demand to tolerable levels is that one of these facilities is not remotely cheap to purchase or run, and the highly skilled labor force required to do what this instructor is doing here. I would at least hope that these guys receive very decent pay for doing this. And as to your 'want', it is quite obvious you are correct that it could happen. Just look at the lines, at least previously, at Disney for example, to verify that. And at least in my case I would find this vastly preferable to ANY ride at Disney. Also the throughput of one of these devices is NOTHING compared to that of a Disney ride, even the smaller dumber ones, like tea cups.
I've been to ifly and it is super cool and great safety but just a little let down as I was hoping for the inside to be more like a grain silo with padding all around
The instructor was caught in the wrong position. He got under the spot but could've prevented it by being side body. The guy was really arched, as soon as he would look down he was always going to pop up at that windspeed.
Yeah, that could get bad. Obviously the net is springy. And as an engineer, I wonder if the net is designed to break at some fall level and drop you through to another to further extend the braking length on full tilt a fall from the top. Good catch. Looks like you guys take the brunt of the hit. I would imagine at some point you could have the air knocked out of you, or maybe worse, like some cracked or broken ribs. etc., which would put the instructor out of commission for a while, if it ever did (or could?) happen. The instructor giving him some safe vertical experience was cool, too. Watching these pros letting loose in there in some of you other vids is almost beyond belief. It would be interesting to see this stuff performed in true free fall, ie plane to parachute. I will go look for it.
@@jeffmartin2975 Why so defensive? At 1:26 you can see that the is in a reasonable arch-position and still getting some altitude. It's hard for him to arch more so it would be easier to lower the vertical wind velocity by just a few km/h, so that he doesn't get altitude that fast. Educate me if I'm wrong.
