usmcdannyboy 0 #1 July 31, 2003 anyone know of any news reports on someone doing this today? i heard he had a 6' carbon composite wing and exited at 30,000' landed with a canopyI am the light my son...What you seek is fire Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyIvan 0 #2 July 31, 2003 Hey buddy, look here http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=592310#592310__________________________________________ Blue Skies and May the Force be with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zeemax 0 #3 July 31, 2003 lol, how many threads are there on this subject now??Phoenix Fly - High performance wingsuits for skydiving and BASE Performance Designs - Simply brilliant canopies Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bobsled92 0 #4 July 31, 2003 I can't believe it's not a bigger deal here(dz.com) IT's all over the news. They are great people. I started e-mail chatting with the test pilots(& Felix?) and Team Dädalus* Fallschirmsport Höxter. about 2 years ago and tried talking *them into bring a wing to WFFC(They have many changed/mod. wings) Very friendly and encouraging towards folks and now they're getting know quite well"Your my Boy BLUE!!!"_______________________________ If I could be a Super Hero, I chose to be: "GRANT-A-CLAUS". and work 365 days a Year. http://www.hangout.no/speednews/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kevin922 0 #5 July 31, 2003 uh it is a big deal there are more threads than I can shake a stick at, and one of the creators of the wing even posted his comments about the situation in another thread : Quote Hello everybody! I´m the designer of the SKYRAYs. I discovered that there is a thread about Felix Channel crossing project. It´s a cool platform to clear some stuff up I think. - The SKYRAY IS in fact a device for human body flight!! 60% of the generated Lift comes from the body! I am not sure wether this is less than with most wingsuits. The good glideratio of the SKYRAY comes from the greatly reduced drag not from huge lifting surfaces. Therefore flying with a SKYRAY is totally differnt than Wingsuit flying. It´s much faster! - Felix Baumgartner seems (but I´m not sure) to have crossed the channel with a wing he built as a copy from 2 prototype wings we sold to Red Bull 2 years ago. The only thing he has in his mind is himself and PR for Red Bull. We had problems with his attitude and when he nearly caused a Ramstein II. we split up. - Congratulations for realizing this media-event to him! But he is and will never be the best SKYRAY flyer! He proved this himself! He needet to build a much bigger wing to get the same glideratio like Christoph Aarns or Patrick Barton got with the SKYRAY prototypes! (we have 2 sizes: a small one for daily use and a bigger prototype for testing purposes - both much smaller than Felix glider) ALBAN looks like felix got what he wanted, plenty of publicity.. though he doesn't rank extremly high in my book -- touting that you're the god of the skies, and that you have the "lowest base jump" when it isn't true is just nuts. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VisionAir 0 #6 August 1, 2003 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3112095.stm Has video of the jump looks like fun Huh?!? What cloud?!? Oh that!!! That's just Industrial Haze Alex M. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fast 0 #7 August 1, 2003 Clicky~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FallingILweenie 0 #8 August 1, 2003 it was just on several newscast, with all the anchors just amazed and stuff...it's very refreshing to see our sport get some possitive publicity in the media for once!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
