Mike Pearson's Adventures on a Pale Blue Dot

The original post was "The Man Who Did the Impossible" Link to story, other video and photos is here   http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/10/the-man-who-did-impossible.htm New video from Clay Lacy Aviation . Clay Lacy was the pilot of the DC-8 jet, and a famous pilot and aviation businessman to this day. Funky 1970's soundtrack at no extra charge CBC interview with Rick Rojatt, the H uman Fly  Sept 2013 re-edit of the Human Fly/Clay Lacy stunt with music soundtrack..click the link   http://adventuresinmikeslife. blogspot.ca/2013/09/new- recycled-human-flyrick-rojatt. html  Another unhinged stuntman of days gone by, Ken Carter of jet powered Lincoln fame. While you are in the mood for retro lunatic stuntm en.   http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/10/ken-carter-daredevil-show-at-mission.html Rock n Roll Water Bombers      http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/09/blog-post.html  

I've been searching for this guy for years...decades even. In the 1970's, I saw a guy on the nightly news...flying on the back of a jetliner, wing-walker style. The TV station played the Beach Boys song "I Get Around" as the stuntman and DC-8 jet did low passes over the crowd. I have searched since then for some trace, a rumour, a smidge of a half truth. Nothing. Lately I have been sending emails to various aviation websites and chat rooms to find clues as to whether what I saw was the real deal. For the longest time, I thought that it was a Boeing jet that carried this guy into the skies some 35 or so years ago. I then associated the Seattle TV station with the possibility of the flight happening at Paine Field. All of this led me to ask an airliner historian if he knew anything about such a thing. He said no, and suggested that such a stunt was totally impractical and nearly impossible. ( super dangerous for the stunt-man...excellent chance of a career implosion...

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