Luke Adkins Analysis

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This article is about a guy named Luke Adkins which is a professional skydiver that has completed 18000 jumps and stunts in the air. The jump that he recently did was scary because he jumped from 25,000 feet. When he was jumping his top speed was 118 miles per hour. When he landed he said it was wild
Before he did the stunt he had to make sure where he was going to land where he wanted to land, he used P.A.P.I lights to see if he was going to land on the target which he could see from the air plane. To glide forward Adkins had to put his hands flat against his sides. To slow down he had to stick his arms and legs out. He was also not using a parachute. Adkins had to use a net that was light weight and it was made of strong synthetic fibers

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