New ( Recycled ) Human Fly/Rick Rojatt Footage

By Mike Pearson
I got my editing genius neighbor to re-cut the existing video footage of the 1970's stuntman Rick Rojatt riding on top of a DC-8 jetliner.
  The Beach Boys tune was playing on the TV news show when I saw this for the first time when I was a kid...so I thought that I would re-create that imagery and sound for you.

So here is the part tribute/ part tongue in cheek video of "The Greatest Stunt Man of All Time"

And don't forget sports fans...legendary pilot and aviation businessman. Clay Lacy was flying that DC-8 just a few feet off the deck. 

Here's a link to his business website 

www.claylacy.com,

Original post and videos here... http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/10/the-man-who-did-impossible.html




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