WingSuit flying

clipped from the IMAX movie Adrenaline Rush.

according to http://www.dropzone.com/fatalities/Detailed/146.shtml provided by @sweatykev01 , Adrian in this video died in a sky diving accident in 2005.

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Sports

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• wingsuit
• winged
• Wing
• Suit
• flying
• skydiving
• Adrenaline
• Rush
• IMAX
• 飛行衣

[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.

[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.

[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!

[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

[cplai]

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

[TatachkaBarbieLover]

I want tooooooo :)))

[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.

[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 ;)

[MooneYoungBlood]

I saw this in transformers 3. So cool