Luke Aikins

Luke Aikins

•        Luke Aikins is a famous skydiver, BASE jumper, pilot, and aerial photographer. He has done many incredible stunts as well as being the first person to dive from mid-tropospheric altitude without a parachute, which also makes him the second skydiver to land without a parachute. He is also holds the record for highest jump without a parachute.
•          Aikins has been skydiving since he was 12 years old, and has only gotten better and better. Aikins has coached for the United States Navy SEALS and NASCAR’s Brian Vickers. Aikins has also advised the military on skydiving techniques.
•         Technology could have impacted Aikins in several ways. He would have needed to use several technologies that are used when skydiving such as automatic aviation devices, reserve static lines, main assisted reserve deployment system, digital and audible altimeters, and/or ram air parachutes.

Reflection:  Luke Aikins has achieved much in the skydiving world with more than 18000 jumps and I hope we get to see more of his incredible stunts. I think that the lesson you can learn from Aikins is that if you want to accomplish something extraordinary you need to practice for it, especially if it’s dangerous. Aikins has been skydiving for almost 30 years of his life and it definitely lead up to his record breaking stunts, but he wouldn’t have broken records unless he had been training for all this time.