There are a few things in life that you really shouldn’t cheap out on. Toilet paper, insurance, shoes, appliances, professionals, etc. None seem quite as… deadly… as trying to save money on a parachute, though. Professional skydiver Sergei Vavilov decided to put a cheap parachute bought off the internet to the test and it went just about as well as you would think.
I can’t find this exact parachute online, but my guess is that it’s not a parachute at all. Instead, I think he took a hobby kite into the sky and tried to use it as a chute and it, predictably, snapped almost immediately. Nonetheless, it was a cool stunt and we’re glad he had a proper backup chute.
