WingSuit flying

[TatachkaBarbieLover]

I want tooooooo :)))

[Torn80cj]

Check out a video titled "Jeb Corliss Grinding the Crack" if you want to see some serious wing suit. The dude is just flat out awesome at what he does.

[cplai]

@Torn80cj Wow! Thank for the reference. I think he was just way too close to the rocks. I don't think a floppy suit like this should be used as a precision glider. Any slight turbulence in the air will cause an accident.

[MooneYoungBlood]

I saw this in transformers 3. So cool

[sedod66]

this might be the most ignorant question in the world, but how come they havent invented a suit yet that woul dallow you to fly like a bird?

[cplai]

@sedod66 One word. Gravity! Human body is just too heavy and arms are comparatively too weak. Try swimming in butterfly style and find out how strong the arms can "flap" the wings (of the suit). When swimming the buoyancy of the body in water provides the lift. When flying, the flapping of the wings must be strong enough to fight gravity to lift the heavy body into the sky. Birds has hollow bones and string breast muscle designed for flying. Human just too weak to lift his own weight.

[spencermonteiro81]

@cplai Ok, that´s well explained, but we wouldn´t have to relly on our muscles to beat the wings, a motor would do, and a suit that works a bit like the one in this vid... Just saying it could work, providing the wing surface was suficient...aint nobody invented this kind of machine? (that didn´t die in the process? Pardon my english, I´m capeverdean ;)

[Azeious]

@cplai I mean everything happens for a reason, imagine if humans could fly everywhere.. the world would be a mess, imagine if hitler could fly holy shit.

[niflap]

Have wingsuiters ever ridden the Sierra Mountain wave? I think they have updrafts exceeding 4,000fpm-exceeding wingsuit descent rate. If my understanding's correct, you don't always have to circle to stay in a mountain wave updraft. WS may not get you up very high in a wave, but they may help you break some interesting nonvehicular speed over distance records.

[cplai]

@niflap Great Idea!

[omamder5]

they look like squirrels

[shmazy21]

wow! 7 jumps in a day!?

[sweatykev01]

htt

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[crazyturtle5749098]

lol if i saw that i woudve thought the ornge guy was a flying squirrel :)

[danegilbert]

imagine doing this, on marijuana.

[Krackells]

Going on a boat is not swimming? Of course it's not. That's why it's called 'sailing'.

[FarceTheory]

Absolute serenity.

[lottiesocks]

RIP Adrian Nicholas

He died in a base jump in 2005

[MEXIMUMBLER]

hellll yea i cant wait ta do this its gonna be like now other high n the world ultimate

[cplai]

search for proximity flying for the more advanced flying.

[kaisenji]

Eh. looks like he still doing the same thing regular suited sky divers do. I'll be impressed when you can actual fly other wise its just the same old falling.

[cplai]

It is not exactly falling because it has substantial forward speed. It is called gliding to be exact.

[stevomc547]

@kaisenji

It actually is not the same thing. With a wing suit you decrease your downward speed from 120 mph to only 35 to 40 mph. Your forward speed is upwards of 100 mph. I have a friend who talks about circling clouds and skimming the tops of them and watching his shadow across them. It may not look much different to you, but it really is a different feeling.

[cplai]

Gliding is not exactly flying either. Just like Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story put it, gliding is call "falling with style".

[vladishere1]

god  damm it 200? f hell

thats lik ten years of xp

[Mrlucky256]

Well if you want to wingsuit base jump you have to have at least 200 skydives and be and experienced parachuter it aslo helps if you know about H.A.H.O. and H.A.L.O.

[goingtoeatpizza]

@Mrlucky256 HALO and HAHO are not relevant to base jumping at all (base is low altitude fixed objects not high altitude skydiving). Very few civilians ever actually do HALO or HAHO.

You need 200 skydives at the bare minimum to use a wingsuit from an aircraft. BASE jumping in a wingsuit is a completely different kettle of fish. You need to be an extremely proficient wingsuit skydiver and regular BASE jumper before attempting to mix the disciplines.

[Hunterandfisher7]

lol wouldnt it be funny if you like flew like over a neighborhood and the sound was like a plane and everyone looks up and it's like just that little guy shooting across the sky

[marceloBOY10]

i dream of flying...this is just FUCKING AWESOME i want to do it...this will be my dream

[thelightbetrays]

7 times a day for a year! that's awesome :D

[cplai]

LOL!

[brooklyn0romeo0cruz]

this great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DougDaCosta]

When these wing suits first came out they cost about $250. I wonder what they're selling for now? I would have bought one, but nobody else on the drop zone, at the time, was interested.

[Matoaka42]

a brand new tony suit can cost you $1200. Buying a used one is about $500.

[DougDaCosta]

Good Grief! That much now? Wheeew! Now if somebody made one with wings that you could flap and go back up, that would be neat.

[duschdasnasenspray]

D´ont buy Tony Suits they have no cutaway handles...

[crackcrackpackpack]

This would be the future in army

[praytothestars]

WOW

[powerfullogic]

cool