Steve Truglia News & Blog

Soap Awards 2010 Spectacular Scene of the Year Award

This year's Spectacular Scene Of The Year was won by Hollyoaks for the Skydiving Scene in the Late Night Special.

Stunt Coordinating this scene was a real pleasure as we sent the girls off to learn to skydive. A combination of live skydives and stunts ensued as we worked out a way to make the final death scene as realistic as possible using the artist herself.

Having had two other nominations for Soap Awards for my stunt scenes, it has been great that we won this one; thanks to the great crew at Lime Pictures, the tremendous Director Sean Glynn and of course the girls themselves for giving 100% and doing most of their own stunts.

 

More Press Interest in Space Jump 2010

More great press support as we move closer to getting the much needed sponsorship in to enable Steve Truglia and Space Jump to beat the Austrian Red Bull sponsored rivals.

Great interview on BBC Radio London on Friday morning with Paul Ross and Gaby Logan, thanks guys.

Thanks for all the messages of support and donations, I'm deeply touched. Let's make it a British record!

Times News Space Jump Article

Metro Space Jump Article

THE EDGE OF SPACE RACE IS ON

Red Bull have announced an attempt at the Space Jump with one of their 'athletes' at the end of 2010.

This is great news because my project can launch THIS SUMMER!!! beating them to it. Everything is firmly in place and ready to go. To make this happen we urgently need sponsorship to get the balloons built, test jump and launch this incredible adventure.

This article from BBC News today explains more:
BBC NEWS ARTICLE STEVE TRUGLIA SPACE JUMP

The opportunity for PR is now better than ever before as the prospect of a space race between myself and Red Bull wil intensify the publicity surrounding this attempt, please spread the word!

Thanks for your continued support,

Steve

Guardian newspaper interview

The lovely people at the Guardian published this nice article on Saturday 12th Dec:

Guardian newspaper piece

Steve Truglia's TED Conference 2009 Talk goes online

The great people at TED have kindly put my talk about stunts and Space Jump online today.

Steve Truglia at TED Oxford 2009

The TED Conference in Oxford July 2009 was absolutely amazing. It was a huge honour to be asked to be a speaker at such an incredible event.

Here are a couple of pictures from that talk. Witin the next few weeks the video of the talk will be published on TED's site.

Here I'm showing the TED audience the spacesuit that I'll wear on the Space Jump mission to 120,000ft.

And here talking about improvements in stunt work due to advances in technology.

Steve Truglia's talk at TED Conference in Oxford

I am honoured to be doing a talk about the Space Jump project at the highly prestigious TED Conference in Oxford on Tuesday 21st July 2009.

More about TED here in a Times article http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6716427.ece

And here for TED's site http://conferences.ted.com/TEDGlobal2009/

The talk will be published on TED's website at some point.

Video of the biggest loop the loop World Record

This stunt was conceived by UK Channel 5's Fifth Gear and Dunlop - Stunt Driver and show presenter Stuntman Steve Truglia.

It was by far the biggest and best car stunt of his career to date. At 12 metres diameter it is a new World Record and the first of it's kind at this size.

Watch a video of the TV show highlights by clicking HERE

Steve Truglia Presents a Dunlop sponsored Fifth Gear Stunt Special TV Show - 23rd May 11.30am Channel 5

Five's motoring magazine show returns for an action-packed one-off special. Stuntman Steve Truglia prepares to perform a toy-car trick in a life-size vehicle fitted with Dunlop SP30's. He will attempt to defy gravity and neck-breaking G-forces to loop-the-loop.
This stirring 'Fifth Gear' special follows Steve every step of the way to see how he prepares for this extraordinary stunt. He seeks advice from Finnish female stunt riders, a daredevil aerobatics pilot and a Cambridge University doctor of mechanical engineering, while training to withstand the incredible G-forces he will experience while driving in the loop.
Steve needs to hit the launch ramp at the perfect speed. If he is too slow, he will drop out of the sky as soon as he is upside down. If he is too quick, he will experience enough G-force to make him blackout. Steve has never failed to complete a stunt yet - but will he succeed this time? Will his Dunlop SP30's keep him on the track, even when he's upside down?

There are some nice press articles too:
Here from Sky News

And Here from The UK Dail Mail Newspaper

Article feature in The Sun newspaper October 2008

Stunt Fitness Feature in the Sunday Telegraph Newspaper

  The Sunday Telegraph Newspaper asked me to do an article on what takes to be fit enough to do movie stunts. I spent the day with journalist Alex Benady, who was a great sport, he was fit, strong and determined. A true example of someone with a busy full on deskbound career staying in very good shape.

Click here to read the article on Telegraph.co.uk's website.

Space Jump Sponsorship - Help Us Make Skydiving History

 Things are progressing very well at this end. UK's Channel 5 have agreed to make the documentary which will be distributed internationally. A book deal is being planned to coincide with that.

The Space Jump Project still needs some sponsorship to get the record jump done this year.

There are huge advertising benefits available for companies, in terms of the worldwide media which will report on this event, inclusion in the documentary and book, and many other corporate benefits including presentations after the event and future advertising opportunities.

Philanthropists out there who support this event can rely on a 'return' on their financial support in the form of fund raising activities after the jump for their chosen charities.

If you have any ideas, contacts or want to be involved in helping us make this happen in any way, get in touch. Project Space Jump 2008 needs your help.

Black Skies

Steve Truglia

Smithsonian Magazine Article

The Smithsonian Institute's Air and Space Magazine have kindly written a very nice article which can be viewed on their website here:

http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/Super_Jump.html

New Soldier Magazine Article June 2008

Those great guys at Soldier Magazine have published a nice update on the SpaceJump project in this month's (June) edition.

Many thanks to Soldier Magazine.

Click on the picture to read the article.

Reuters News Feature for Space Jump

Here's a great news feature which was filmed by Reuters and distributed internationally.

Click here to watch the Reuters News Video

NEWSFLASH: World Record Attempt This July 2008

Newsflash: Team Space Jump can reveal that the High Altitude Parachute Jump World Record has been brought forward to THIS JULY 2008.
Training is going very well and a gas balloon system has been sourced, along with two full pressure space suits.
The current schedule is as follows:

June 2008, Steve Truglia to perform a 52,000 feet High Altitude Parachute Jump from a gas balloon which Steve will pilot himself, wearing a full pressure spacesuit.

July 2008, providing a successful test flight in June, Steve will attempt to break the High Altitude Parachute Jump World Record by jumping from over 125,000 feet. Both jumps will take place in the USA and will be ratified by the FAI (Federation Aeronautique Internationale).

ITV News at Ten and CNN News Story on Space Jump

Here's a link to the News story about the High Altitude Parachute Jump Record which was shown on ITV regional news, ITV News at 10, and CNN News. Many thanks to ITV News team and reporter Nina Nannar.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH ITV & CNN NEWS STORY VIDEO

Channel 5 and ITV News cover Space Jump Project

The press frenzy continued throughout this week as Channel 5 News, ITV News, Kerrang Radio, LBC Radio and a host of other media took an interst in the High Altitude Parachute Jump Project.

ITV News were keen for some skydiving footage of me in the pressure suit. Fortunately I had already flown the suit and helmet in the Airkix indoor skydiving tunnel at Milton Keynes on Monday for Channel 5 News. The great value of the tunnel is the ability to test equipment in a safe environment. Over 30 minutes of flying the suit, many of the problems were solved. One overiding issue was the fact that I cannot get my head back or arch my body in this suit. This makes skydiving very difficult. The body position, combined with the difficulty trying to arch properly, makes for a slightly unstable freefall with my body rocking slightly. More modifications to the kit and tunnel testing should iron out these niggles.

It is becoming increasingly clear that a small drogue chute may be needed on the big jumps for stability.

  Master skydiving cameraman, wingsuit expert and freeflying champion Andy Ford has joined the SpaceJump team with his extensive expertese as a freefall cameraman. His amazing video of my jumps today were shown on ITV's 6.30 and award winning News at 10 programme. The ITV production team were blown away by the skill and sheer quality of Andy's camera work.

These incredible pics were taken by Andy while he was shooting video at the same time...awesome!

Andy teaches complete beginners to advanced skydivers, from first time jumpers to freefly teams. Find out more about his services here www.infiniteskydiving.com

Watch this space...video clip coming soon...

Space Jump Article in the Sunday Times

Those lovely people at the Sunday Times have run a great feature about my Space Jump record attempt.
The article is great, (except they got my age wrong), and can be read below in word document form, or here as a link to The Times Online article.

Download sunday_times_article_24th_feb_2008.doc

Steve Truglia interview on Nuts TV

I had a fantastic time doing an interview on Nuts TV. The highlight was being interviewed by Steve and Dan (Of Big Chef Little Chef and Crash Test Dummies fame). I had the great pleasure of working with these two loonies on Sky's Crash Test Dummies series as their Stunt Coordinator. That job, thanks mainly to these guys and the great crew from Granada Manchester, stands out as one of my favourites.

I'll post a video link of the interview as soon as it becomes available.

Press Interest in Project Space Jump

What a day! The Sun ran a great full page feature (link to follow), on my SpaceJump project High Altitude Parachute Jump Record. This got the attention of Channel 4's Richard and Judy Show, who asked me to guest, (BTW, what a thoroughly nice couple they are, which also goes for the crew, fabulous).

Photo shoot this morning in the Airkix Indoor Skydiving Tunnel in Milton Keynes for The Sunday Times, and a host of other media stories to follow...phew, I'm exhausted!!

More Press interest in the Space Jump Project

  Those nice people at the Sunday Times ran a short item on the forthcoming Space Jump project.
The link to the article is here: http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/news/article3250598.ece

And here's a word doc copy: Download sunday_times_article_27_jan_2008.doc

Steve Truglia's biggest car stunt yet on Channel Five's Fifth Gear

A couple of weeks ago I performed a massive car stunt for Channel Five's Fifth Gear car show, where I've been the resident stunt driver since 2004.

It's another in our series, 'How Hollywood Works', where the viewer gets to see behind the scenes, and exactly how we perform some of the movie worlds biggest car stunts. You'll see how we switch stunt performer with artist for the final scene.

The repeat of Monday night's show is on Saturday 2nd Feb 08 on UK Channel 5 at 11.00. It's the biggest car stunt we've done yet on the show so be sure to tune in.

Read about the stunt at Fifth Gear's website here: http://fifthgear.five.tv/jsp/5gmain.jsp?lnk=401&featureid=1042&show=s13e2&section=On%20test

Another great press article

The wonderful Sunday Post newspaper in Scotland ran this great article on my forthcoming High Altitude Parachute Jump record attempts. In 2002 they covered my British no limits freediving record which was set in the cold water of Loch Linnhe. The European Record High Altitude Parachute Jump location is still undecided. Likely venues will be Norfolk or Scotland depending on the CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) permissions for use of airspace at 52,000 feet.

Here's the article: Download sunday_post_spacejump_article.pdf

Soldier Magazine Feature on my Space Jump project

Soldier Magazine have run a great two page spread on my forthcoming SpaceJump project high altitude parachute jump record attempts.
The article was based on the fact that much of my early parachute training was with the Army, and I  probably wouldn't have become a stuntman, and certainly wouldn't have been making these record attempts had I not been a military reservist for so many years.


This was where it all started, with early parachute jumps from a balloon at 800 feet. I always loved those jumps because of the thrill of stepping off the balloon edge. It'll be the same on the Space Jump but a whole lot higher!

I am extremely grateful to have had the opportunity and good health to have been able to enjoy such adventures with the Army and the Royal Marines Commandos.

Download soldier_magazine_article_jan_2008.jpg

Daily Mirror Newspaper full page Stunt feature

Those lovely people at the Daily Mirror Newspaper ran a great profile article about my life as a stuntman, and my High Altitude Parachute Space Jump project.
Read the article here as an Adobe pdf file:
Download Daily_Mirror_8_11_2007.pdf