Aerones, a drone company based in Latvia, has posted a video online showing a custom drone with 28 rotors carrying a skydiver aloft to about 1,000 feet, where he lets go and parachutes to a safe landing. The drone launches from a pond, then picks up skydiver Ingus Augstkalns from a nearby tower. The company claims it is the "first human flight with the drone and jump at high altitude." The stunt is the latest in a trend to experiment with the capabilities of drones for extreme sports — back in December, Casey Neistat posted video of being lifted aloft and towed while snowboarding with a drone, and a team at Vertipod experimented with a man-carrying drone in 2015.
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