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“The risks and the consequences never decrease… so you better have a really damn good internal motivation of WHY you are doing this.” – Richard Webb

Fighter pilots are badasses — the kind of badasses that are not only brave and bold but brainy and generally brilliant. So, with this reasoning in place, 42-year-old Richard Webb is a badass. And now, as an airline pilot based out of Moab, Utah, Webb is applying that badass-ery to BASE jumping and wingsuit flying.

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Trigonometry, numbers and tools and science, aeronautical engineering degree, real life experience taking off and landing on aircraft carriers — that is what goes into a single jump for Webb. He uses lasers to measure the distances, and an angle meter to determine optimal positioning.

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The dangers of BASE jumping and wingsuit flying have never been more public. This behind-the-scenes glimpse of the preparations that go into, again, single jumps is eye-opening to say the least.

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