Scott Pollard

I guess I should my own first 'solo', lol. I've been taking part in the Moomba Birdman Rally down here in Melbourne almost every year starting from 2004 onwards and my first attempt was as Jetfire from the classic Transformers cartoon. I walked up onto the platform as a robot, transformed into a plane and jumped off. The cardboard plane flew off over my head and I dropped out below it into the filthy disgusting Yarra river, with the robot head still attached to my bike helmet. I did a huge belly flop and swallowed way too much water, which I instantly regretted.

Sorry to drag up a post that's nearly a decade old but I was just researching the history of the birdman rally all around Australia and stumbled over this post. If Danny is still around he might be interested to know that there's video footage of his jump available, it appears at around 15 seconds into this ad from 1990: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKIMgm18xsw