new BASE wing suit method?

[cubsterky 0]

is it possible to BASE Jump head down, to gain speed, and then use the wing suit to steer through aerodynamics and actually start flying back up? Like in the shape of a U?

[absane 0]

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[absane 0]

Besides... think of the physics of this. Are you talking about jumping from, say 1,000 feet, fling in a U-shape back up, and going higher than 1,000?

If so, then no. It's impossible. You have a certain amount of potential energy thanks to gravity from 1,000 feet and the kinetic energy will not exceed that. If you were to neglect all the drag (which causes energy loss), the highest you could come back up to is 1,000 feet.

I'm so far away from wingsuiting... but I can imagine that fighting drag and gravity is a bitch to do.

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[piisfish 140]

very few people have recorded a inflight rate of climb (I am not talking about high speed exits from planes)

the shape of the vertical flightpath would ressemble more the black one than the red one (which you would dream of)

But then again I am no expert and this is how I understood things

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[Calvin19 0]

skydivers are no fun... this guy posted this same thing on the BASE dorkzone and 9 out of 10 people were fucking with him.

[absane 0]

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skydivers are no fun... this guy posted this same thing on the BASE dorkzone and 9 out of 10 people were fucking with him.

Of course they would... if I were a BASE jumper, I'd do the same.

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[Martini 0]

Might have something to do with BASE jumpers screwing with the troll. Here the troll usually wins.

Sometimes you eat the bear..............

[Calvin19 0]

Good BASE jumpers are trolls at heart.

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