Jeb Corliss

Jeb Corliss (born 1976) is a professional BASE jumper, skydiver, and wingsuit flyer.

Jeb is co-founder of 3 Triple 7, a clothing label.

He is currently planning and promoting the Wingsuit Landing Project, an attempt to land a wingsuit without a parachute, by building a massive ramp.[1]

Empire State Building jump

He had been hired as host of the Discovery Channel program Stunt Junkies, but was fired and banned from all future Discovery Networks projects after being arrested while attempting to jump from the observation deck of the Empire State Building on April 27 2006. He was charged with reckless endangerment. At trial, he was acquitted in a verdict that said his actions were not endangering to his own life or the lives of others, due to both his skill in jumping and his planning to avoid hitting the traffic below. In April of 2007, the owners of the Empire State Building sued Corliss for $12 million in damages, $10 million of that as punitive damages, claiming he had injured a security guard, damaged the building's reputation, and cost it money from lost business. He has also been involved in a number of efforts to develop wingsuits to allow skydiving without a parachute, and in 2005 he released a DVD with Iiro Seppanen called The Ground is the Limit, featuring their jumps from around the world.

On January 15, 2008, Corliss filed a $30 million lawsuit against the owners of the Empire State building. The lawsuit alleges that the security guards who prevented his jump off the building endangered his life and caused "severe emotional distress" to Corliss. Defamation allegations are also part of the lawsuit, charging that the building's owners continued to claim that Corliss's actions were illegal even after he had been acquitted during that criminal trial. He's also an idiot who is as litigious as he is brainless.

References

• Corliss is featured in the last chapter of Birdmen, Batmen, and Skyflyers: Wingsuits and the Pioneers Who Flew in Them, Fell in Them, and Perfected Them, by Michael Abrams. ISBN 1-4000-5491-5.
• Hartocollis, Amanda (January 18, 2007). "Foiled Daredevil Fares Better in Court". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-01-18.
• Hutchinson, Bill (April 28, 2006). "Been there, leaped off that". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2007-01-18.
• Parachuteless Parachuting
• Flying Humans, Hoping to Land With No Chute - New York Times

External links

• Weekend America - Interview with Jeb Corliss
• Demo video
• A Year in the Life - 2003 jumps around the world
• Risk is sport for those who leap at chance to, well, leap
• Outlawing Creative Subversions
• The Ground is the Limit at IMDb
• MySpace