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Vehicle: Personal: Sphere
Zip-line Dambuster   (+5, -1)  [vote for, against]
tally ho!

Zip-line Dambuster sends you down the usual zip-line experience, but contained within a reinforced glass and metal sphere, and over an expanse of water, like a reservoir. At the optimum point on the downward journey, the sphere is released, with you in it. - (suitably and securely strapped within its padded confines)

Free fall in a forward trajectory is the result, followed by the bouncing/skipping action of the sphere traversing the surface of the water below, (dambuster style) finally coming to rest as the buoyancy bags deploy, and a waiting boat manoeuvres into position to winch you on board. (paramedics are standing by)
-- xenzag, Oct 29 2015

Tally ho indeed. Barnes-Wallace_20Of...Skydiving_20Society
[MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 29 2015]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bOGRTlrYCIE Dambuster bomb test [xenzag, Oct 30 2015]

Found something about the documentary http://www.pbs.org/...ng-hitler-dams.html
As mentioned in an annotation. [Vernon, Oct 31 2015]

Zip-line? Pshaw. Any customers in search of a more realistic experience are invited to join the Barnes- Wallace Offshore Skydiving Society (link).
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 29 2015


I had forgotten to include the rubber dam in my annotation of 2009
-- xenzag, Oct 29 2015


Would the person be spinning also?
-- travbm, Oct 30 2015


There is an actual video documentary about the original dam busters of WW2, and they didn't use spheres. They used barrel-shaped bombs, and they were pre-spun before getting released from the bombers. If you had a person inside such a spinning barrel, the weight distribution would probably have awful side effects, and the rate of spin alone would likely be deadly.
-- Vernon, Oct 30 2015


A halfbaked idea then.....details of dambuster very familiar. See link
-- xenzag, Oct 30 2015



random, halfbakery