My dream of skydiving could come true via safer, new open glass-bottom Skydeck at Sears Tower
Add comment May 1st, 2009
(artist’s rendering)See what I mean? This Chicago Sun-Times story today tells all about it. The Ledge opens in June. I’m getting in line.
About 20 years ago, I wanted to skydive. So I test-drove the experience a bit by going up in a plane with two skydivers, one who’d packed his parachute like 2,000 times and the other like 4,000 times. I was writing a story for another newspaper and taking pictures. Two weeks later, the more experienced skydiver didn’t pack his chute right and died when he hit a building on the airport property in Hebron.
I decided not to risk trying skydiving. With the Ledge, there won’t be that risk. I’m so there.
