No Flight Plan, No TSA
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the Wizard
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this is very cool, and I wish them well.....but I predict a huge disaster in this sport pretty soon.....
Mike Mosing
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Wwabbit
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That's some of the best wing suit flying I've seen to date. Pretty awesome. Shows how technology advances in all sports. Those suits are on about generation 10. Here's a pic of some the very first suits from 1998 (DaVinci's work excluded). I'm in full form in the blue suit. We did well to get 4:1, the guys in the video could almost do a go-around if the tower asked them to :thumbsup And Janine took the pic on her back also in a suit.
Copenhagen GT
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Crazy .... do they actually have the ability to gain altitude if they get "trapped" in a "dead end situation" or do tey just fall at a certain ratio?
Wwabbit
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Can't 'climb' but they can vary the descent rate from vertical to max performance based on the suit, pilot weight and ability. In one scene it indeed looked like a climb, but it was just vertical rate change relative to the camera. It sure is gutsy. You have do do surveillance and planning before a jump like that - so there is surely a flight plan.
There was a Norway trip every year, but we would need to stand looking right down on the fiord - now these guys can exit out of site of the landing area - crazy - kinda like stand-off warfare with a cruise missle. Wish I was still out there. Getting lazy, old(er) and balls aren't that big.
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Mooney56
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Triheart7
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Triheart7
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Insanely cool. Seems like there are about a million things that could go wrong on that kind of jump. Wow
Wwabbit
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Wwabbit
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Sinovac
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I'm with you. If I ever had an inclination to do that, I would ask my creator to reincarnate me as one of these:
http://www.arkive.org/northern-flying-squirrel/glaucomys-sabrinus/