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- kildorn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+87thats ***** awesome.
- radu79, on 10/12/2007, -4/+58Oh my science!
That guy has a lot of balls. - donjaime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+53This guy strapped jets to his feet and managed to maintain altitute at 6500 feet with the wing suite!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9DWAuqP-CQ&mode=related&search= - deuceswilde, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39Maybe, but if you can do it without breaking bones then do it that way.
- donjaime, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21He could probably land in the snow without a parachute and live.
- ProximaC, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Ever see a downhill skiier wipe out at top speed? This guy was going a lot faster than that. Even snow isn't soft at nearly terminal velocity. He was probably going 150+ mph.
- TheBarge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Clip with Commentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmZyB_ghpa0 - Smigge87, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16I'm just amazed that the guys gigantic balls didn't drag across the ground when he was flying over the mountain.
Thanks for finding this, I've been looking for this video for a while. - wvdavis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13:ring, ring: Hello, flying squirrel man... this is you Met-Life agent... and um I just saw you on YouTube and I'm sorry to say we're going to cancel you policy.
- MadOgre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13That's not flying. It's falling... with style!
- themarq, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15WOW, it's too bad that was filmed by a retarded monkey. That looks like it could be the coolest stunt I have seen in a long time.
I would love to see more footage of that, dude looked like Superman. - UGM2099, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18My balls are all tingly after watching that.
- TheBarge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Ahhh you may be thinking about Dwain Weston who died when he was doing a stunt where he jumped out of a plane and was supposed to use his wing suit to fly right over a bridge, but instead drilled a railing at 100+ mph and hit rocks on his way down Homer Simpson style.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10BEST wing suit video ive seen
http://youtube.com/watch?v=***** - Suits, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Flying Squirrel Man strikes again!
- EbowUK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Thats the best inadvertent swear word in an actual link I've seen ;)
- icexe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9it's new to me.. and obviously to lots of other people as well.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8It's not the ground effect. He's just falling 1 foot for each 4 feet he goes horizontally. And the ground is also sloped the same. So he maintains his (relative) altitude.
Try to do it over level ground and you splat. - molecool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7This guy is ***** NUTS!!! I love it :-))
- radu79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Seems like you can buy one from here:
http://www.phoenix-fly.com/ - frederic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Looks like he is pretty alive and still doing training camps:
http://www.flyyourbody.com/cadre.asp?ID=55707&LNG=EN - blakemsf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yeah I believe this was in one of Warren Miller's Ski movies....I think it was "Journey" a great DVD. Sad though he died.
- molecool, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"but instead drilled a railing at 100+ mph and hit rocks on his way down Homer Simpson style."
Sweet mercy.... haven't laughed that hard in a long time reading this.... - noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I wonder if that product has any warning labels.
- skydivingdutch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hell yeah! I have a wingsuit too, but I am not about to try that!
@ radu79: That is where mine is from. - HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Actually, apparently this group of nutballs have been bandying this idea about already.
However, none has volunteered to be the first to jump out of a plane with no parachute and try it yet. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ahh warren miller. takes me way back.
- skydivingdutch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Balloon jumps rock.
- gravylookout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Holy *****!!! he's sitting there on the edge of that balloon and I keep thinking that there's no way he's gonna do it and then he does!!! AHHHH! Redic!
- Dysanovic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think that's probably the most dangerous past-time I've ever seen!
- Xer0crash, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4This guy ain't got nothing on Wile E Coyote.
- Desolite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I wonder if Harvey represents them in court?
- Natfly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4wingsuit is a generic term, while birdman is a company that happens to make wingsuits
- Chebyshev, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5That 1/4 span thing is kinda rough. Ground effect comes from creating a "pillow" of air for the body (plane, person, whatever) to ride on from the downwash of the wing hitting the ground and not having anywhere to go. Basically you get a high pressure under the wing because the air is hitting the ground and that high pressure adds to the lift experienced by the wing (or in this case, flying-squirrel-man). That 1/4 span thing is for high aspect ratio wings (like plane wings). The wingsuit here could conceivably create way stronger downwash with a shorter span that a traditional wing and therefore exploit the ground effect while not being dangerously (I guess that is arbitrary) close to the ground.
- skydivingdutch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Someone has flown and landed a 39 sqft parachute (normal ones are like 150). When flying this chute, he maintained the same glide ratio and speed a wingsuit flyer, there is a video where they are flying next to each other.
The problem with landing a wingsuit is that when it comes time to land, your face is the first thing to hit the ground, not your feet. - Chebyshev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wasn't implying that the ground effect makes him not lose altitude, but it helps by adding to the lift generated by his contraption. He is probably descending slower because he is near the mountainside than he would if he was just out in midair.
- TheBarge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2His name is Loïc Jean-Albert, but I didn't find anything saying he died.
- trosenbl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4No it is not the same as ground effect. From the first sentence of the page you linked to:
"The term Ground effect refers to the increase in lift experienced by an aircraft as it approaches within roughly 1/4 of a wingspan's length of the ground."
He is not that close to the ground for the vast majority of his flight. - chewycheese, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There is another version of this clip somewhere on youtube that has commentary.
- OsiVert, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Anyone know who he is? Comments in YouTube say he died doing another wingsuit stunt.
- fatlip, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5maybe he should try harder next time
- umdigger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Been on digg a few times, but it never ceases to amaze me. I wish I had one of those.
- rubicante, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Why are people digging down comments related to the Ground Effect? We're not making this stuff up.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2whats better adrenaline rush or sex
- Warnke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's like calling inline skates, Rollerblades.
- tektalk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i have to do this one day when i have time, too swamped with work :(
dugg for showing me how fun life can be. - Warnke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This appeared in a James Bond movie more than a year ago...
- davidod87, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That guy would've been *screwed* if he rolled forward a little too much.
- brutimus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just saw this on a Warren Miller show a few days ago.
- ZeroG52, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1WOW. I want one!
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