World's First Controlled Wingsuit dock on a parachutist

[miradesignstudio]

Crap!

[DreamsCatcher101]

I wonder how long it will take for this stunt to be in a bond film.

[Fingabang69]

i want my money back

[squirtrocks123]

the dock was he managed to hold onto that ribbon under the dguys feet, its such an important event because it means that a wingsuit pilot can fall slow enogh to survive a landing. yes the parachute was very small but it was large enough to survive the landing, he'd just be in an icu in a coma with horrific leg injuries. But it does mean they are very close now to a parachuteless skydive where the pilot can land using only his wingsuit.

[Dierwolf2000]

@squirtrocks123

they have pods that can be used to assist a wingsuit jumper (there's vids here on you tube) so my question is why can't they use microrockets as retro rockets to arrest some of the speed on landing? im not a parachutist much less a wingsuiter (yet, im workin on it) but i'd think thats the major hurdle no? by which i mean translating forward velocity into the proper amount of drag in a flared landing. Or am i misunderstanding the physics?

[kleinesmaenchen]

@squirtrocks123 sorry but he pulled on his front risers to maintain the same sinking speed as the wingsuit guy.

[japtoon33]

Yeeaahh... where was the dock? I saw a flyby. Not much else.

[seq165432]

I think some guy got killed testing an extra small canopy - he broke a line group or something and the force of the spin made it impossible for him to rescue himself. I wondered if it had anything to do with this "stunt"?

[seq165432]

Yeah, wow - that is a tiny canopy!

Did they land those or transition to a larger canopy?

[connelly6375]

i didn't really see the dock

[DarkHeart135]

Incredible. Song name?

[DaLowestBird]

The jumper under canopy is Vladi Pesa. He was one of my AFF instructors and I remember when they accomplished this. I believe there is a better video somewhere that shows the docking a little clearer. If I remember correctly, while the canopy was already very small, they also had to develop a quick release system on the front risers that shortened them until landing in order to match the wingsuit. Incredible though!

[dz0kid]

y is there differnt canopys with each angle????

[xabooooo]

what's the name of the song?

[busteroo7]

purpose?

[aetgnjyk]

You can see the dock from pretty far and it is a really noisy image at 1:11 in this video, I think that is Luigi Cani flying a VX-39 and my guess is that no one else dared to fly anything even close to that size canopy in order to film the sequence so this is as close as we get to it

[vn030350d]

Hmm...the guy under the canopy definitely isn't Luigi Cani. Google his images, you'll see the "mild" difference in appearances. :) I'm not sure whether that's a VX-39 or not...looks a bit too big. Since the video is an edit of at least 2 jumps (notice the different color schemes of the dock target canopies and the lack of helmet cam on landing) I can't be positive about that. Good jump anyhow. Blue skies.

[DaLowestBird]

See my other comment. The canopy pilot is Vladi Pesa. I remember when they did this. Pretty cool.

[alessioaguirre]

wait ... where is the docking part?

[archangel670]

i believe that yellow ribbon in his hand was tied around the parachutists foot and he had in his hand at the end so he untied while docked

[tomterahedrob]

my god those chutes are so small!Really an awesome achievement.

[thesiknik7]

Yea i honestly didnt see the dock, bad cam work i geuss!

[spoketwister]

ultra gay

[killmytv]

Dude! That was awesome! I must have looked away during the docking, but I could tell from the music that it was totally epic!

[chocolategourmand]

lol, that's what I was thinking, too.

[theloganrocks]

What the hell is this... nothing happens.... where's the dock? lame