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http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/article/16233460
I bet Jeb Corlis will be pissed to see this. He was making plans to be the first....
, just with a slightly less desirable outcome 
Neat eh? I guess that could genuinely be called a belly landing.
The final landing speed after he flared looked much slower than I would have thought. The suit looked a bit bigger than usual so that would have made the landing speed slower.
I don't think I will be trying that any time soon. 
Also, he looks to be thin and wirey. Not real heavy, which would be ideal for that sort of thing.
The video is very funny. Fly, fly, fly. Glide. Glide. Land ... Nothing. Glen? Glen? You in there somewhere? Man steps out of the boxes.
For something so spectacular you'd think they would have had a few more cameras. Follow cameras on parachutes. Helicopter hovering over the boxes etc.
Yes, that's a bit strange.
I wonder if it's one of those hoax vids.?
What we need is someone who doesn't "outsource their thinking" to look at it.
Where's pm33? or the surfingfly?
really there is not a lot to it.......It had to come, he was the first, that's gutsy
just like a parra glider/ shute. It is a flair out approach just above the ground level
and a neat drop to the deck. birds and planes do a similar thing, a stall landing
he has opened the box and within the next mths the multitude will follow. Kiters
are probable first off the line along with parachuitists.. good luck bros 
Folks this is BS cos I've done it before... I crashed landed on my ass... oh wait I get, he walked away that makes it a first.
I walked away 6 weeks later... still not walking right thought.
To be fair if I have 50/50 percent chances I would rather like to land on the moon , not on the carton boxes
www.theguardian.com/science/2012/may/23/neil-armstrong-accountancy-website-moon-exclusive
What damage did you do Flysurfer?
I got involved in the aftermath of a skydiving incident south of Perth about 6 years ago, the jumper was well experienced but chose to come in low and fast, accidentally clipping the top branches of a tree, his canopy collapsed and he plummeted to the ground, 15-20 metres maybe.
I saw his first x-rays up on the light box and he'd smashed pretty much everything down one side of the body and most on the other side. His ribs looked like a game of pick-up-sticks on the x-ray. Myself and the ambos then stood by whilst the two doctors argued over treatment and when they should call for the rescue helicopter to get him up to Perth. One doctor wanted to call for it now knowing it would take time to get on site, the other doctor wanted to stabilise the guy then call for it.
We were about to sneak off and call for the medivac without the doctors knowing, but they finally got their stuff together. As far as I know the guy survived, not sure how though.
Brings back the old joke: "how much force does it take to slow a propeller blade?"
About half-a-Newton... 
