Luke Aikins has been jumping out of airplanes for quite some time. In fact, he's dropped out of the sky more than 18,000 times and lived to tell the tale.
But his skill was put to the test Saturday night when he jumped out of an airplane wearing just the clothes on his back.
Aikins fell from 25,000 feet in the sky and landed on a 100-foot by 100-foot net suspended 200 feet off the ground. He was told he had to wear a parachute during the televised event by the Screen Actors Guild. However, he never opened it.
He fell for about two minutes and just had the net to catch him.
"Like any normal, sane person I said, 'Thank you, but no thank you. I have a wife and a son and I've got a life to live,' " Aikins, 42, told PEOPLE Magazine about the first time the idea was proposed. "Then, two weeks went by and I kept waking up in the middle of the night thinking, if somebody said you had to do this, how could it be done?"
After months of planning, Aikins answered that question in a special live event called Stride Gum Presents: Heaven Sent.
The landing target won't even be visible when he jumps, but special lights have been set up to guide him as he falls and keep him lined up to hit that target.
Aikins has reportedly completed 34 practice jumps -- in which he deploys a parachute at just 1,000 feet up -- successfully.
After hitting the net he climbed out and hugged his wife.
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