Heaven sent (script)

Heaven sent (script)

Two minutes to reach this precise:

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The metal door slides across ---
Its 'HEAVY' thundering roll lost
in the exhilarating sound of passing air...
The engine's scream fuses with my thumping fear.
Usually as I look down I feel pure unadulterated pleasure,
but today, it's acutely different...
almost surreal - I wish...
but, do I..?
I look into other sets of eyes, all them hardened, all of them focused...
then... "Jumpers away, jumpers away"
Instinctively, I jump from...
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25,000 feet

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the immediate rushing sensation

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bombards my all...

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as we drop like stones,

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away from the shrinking plane;

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It's like being swallowed by a typhoon...

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I assume the traditional sky-dive position, we all do...

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Just like in training, all those years honing responses...

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I twist and flip onto by back,

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then immediately return,

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It's like 2nd nature,

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but today is horror deja-vu...

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the icy Adrenalin I'm falling through...

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Is me...

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Falling at terminal velocity:

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150 miles an hour.

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Why, why why... Attacks my hurricane thoughts

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Why? Because this is me...

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This is who I am...

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I can do no other than be true to me.

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18,000 feet to go...

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Hands (my cousins) move in close...

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*thumbs up*

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*mutual nod*

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My oxygen mask is...

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...removed

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air forces frozen pins into each inch of my face.

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I must... Concentrate.

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Another flip...

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Monica's face flits momentarily across my mind.

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Her flushed face passing me our new son...

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WHAT AM I DOING...

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RISKING IT ALL?

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Another flip...

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Time is running...

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Out... like sand pouring through the base of a

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Greedy hour glass.

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Filling up far too fast...

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Why?

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The first parachute is pulled and he's gone,

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...then in quick succession two more of the team disappear

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The remaining eyes stare dart like...

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Slicing through my vulnerable core.

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YES... I feel it, damn it - but resolutely I swallow 'it' down...

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and conjure (I hope) a brave Apache face...

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Then like a kidney punch my blood bleeds away,

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...on a nylon chute.

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A compulsion rises like a wave,

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making me want to pull my chute...

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the chute I do not have!

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My fear is beyond terror...

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Am I looking into the face of death...

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MY DEATH?

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One last flip.

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Trust the training.

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Know your ability.

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Keep the faith,

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and

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Just

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Let

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Go...

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__Gotcha__

^ This point in time: A safety net 20 stories high successfully catches the free fall from 25,000 feet

Congratulations Luke Aitkin (26 years of experience and 18,000 jumps under his belt - A New World record!

michael
2016

Link to jump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOBavry0K2E