Basejumper.com - archive

... and you lot thought you're all badasses?
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/first-motorcycle-parachute-jump/query/PARACHUTE+THAT

If we filmed some WS base jumpers with a black and white camera I think it would look pretty similar

lands safely?
safely must have meant something different back then

Its hard to steer a bike with balls that big.

I don't think the chute created any significant drag.

Check out the jump at the end of this clip.
Hard to tell if it's a person or a dummy attached the way it's flailing around, but right at the end it looks like movement after it reaches the bottom.
http://www.britishpathe.com/...-s-a/query/PARACHUTE