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Thanks Craig, those two photos tell so much more than the video posted so far. I would love to see slow-mo video from this angle. Those guys on the scaffold got some I'm guessing. www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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Looks like he is walking around and drinking champagne to me. It's almost as if he has a lot of experience crashing into boxes and knew what he was doing! www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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I don't think he can fit all that cardboard in a TSA approved carry on. www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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I'm making a Wing suit video game, tips?
The111 replied to adamtheturtle's topic in Wing Suit Flying
And there are about 1000 different baseball games in existence. Not really a problem. -
In that case, I think we've already had a whole lot of "landings" without the use of a parachute. All the no-pull fatalities would count for starters. Then there's Vesna Vulovic, Nicholas Alkemade and Alan Magee I thought it was clear the goal here was to NOT die, in fact to not even get hurt at all. That makes it different; that makes it a first. You wrote that. [superbold] Yes, I did write that. [/superbold] www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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In that case, I think we've already had a whole lot of "landings" without the use of a parachute. All the no-pull fatalities would count for starters. Then there's Vesna Vulovic, Nicholas Alkemade and Alan Magee I thought it was clear the goal here was to NOT die, in fact to not even get hurt at all. That makes it different; that makes it a first. www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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There is nothing regular about jumping out of airplanes in the first place. However, Medusa is certainly not the first person to fly a wingsuit from 35,000 feet, nor will he be the last. His record stands on its own merit, in its own class, and doesn't need comparison to a different class. You make it sound as if he built a 35,000 foot tower out of solid gold. Any of us could make a jump from that altitude if we really wanted to. I know I don't want to, and I know I wouldn't last 9 minutes either. www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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Have someone stand behind you when you are fully geared up and lift up your rig until your legstraps are pulling on you hard (to simulate hanging). If your laterals are touching the tabs on the top side of the opening (and creating tension in the suit), then you can tear tabs out when your canopy opens (bad). The fix for that would be to move up a tab (but chances are you are ok on the 3rd tab). You can do this test yourself with a mirror, or without if you know what to feel for and are flexible, squat next to a bench and let your rig rest on it. Hope that makes sense. www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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What the guy above said, but in my years of hooking up lots of old bird-man suits (classics, gti's, and s3's), it was usually the 3rd or 4th wing tab (counting from the top) which was skipped for almost any rig out there. 3rd was more common. www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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It's actually ballast. His tongue hanging out on the front side creates a lot of drag, so he needs something on the back side to balance it out. www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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My new P3. Order placed to delivered in THREE weeks.
The111 replied to MrCat's topic in Wing Suit Flying
The correct term is "sewgod." -
Nice video, squirrely.
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The answer was correct in 2000 though, as the graph shows. www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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In aviation is a controlled crash considered a landing? The actual definition of landing is "an act or process of one that lands; especially: a going or bringing to a surface." Different communities can put add whatever modifiers they want (crash, smooth, controlled, parachute, box, etc). Some landings kill. Some landings you walk away from. Bottom line: if you start in the air, and finish on the ground... you landed. He plans to land, and he plans to walk away from it, without using a parachute in between. That is the bottom line. Is it as elegant as doing the same without a pile of boxes? Probably not (subjective)... but it is a landing. Is it more elegant than what Stoney did a couple years ago? Probably (subjective), but that was also a landing. www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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Clench your butt cheeks. Dead serious. Jarno had good tips in the vid about what to do with your waist. But the way to accomplish that is by clenching your butt. There is no other flying style I've encountered in skydiving that requires you to use these muscles. De-arching when on your back (raising your hips) is similar to arching on your belly (i.e. what you learn in AFF), but requires a totally different set of muscles since you are upside down and all the forces are coming the other way. www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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Agreed. Whether the assist is coming from nylon above (the "normal way" for most of us) or cardboard below (the crazy stuntman way)... it's still an assist.
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couldn't resist, bought scuba hood today... :-P If you (or anybody else) needs Wes' instructions, PM me. www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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Well said. www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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Who lost? www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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No, I was making assumptions based on what little I had seen. Guess I should check the rest out. www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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Most of the concept is fairly sound, but there are still some holes. Simply moving wings up and down would not make a bird fly, the same way that simply moving your arms up and down in a pool will not make you tread water. The motion required is MUCH more complex than those uni-axial motors can create, I think. www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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Get a cameraman who won't crash into your reserve handle! But the advice above is good. Your body position is actually not that bad compared to most people starting off. I think your chest and head look pretty good... hips and arms are your last points to fine tune. Clench your butt! www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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Even the Mythbusters guy is giving it serious thought. I have to say though, even if this is real, I'll bet it doesn't feel much like "human" flying (any more than being in a hang glider), since you don't have any feedback on your arms from the air resistance. I guess you could design that into a feedback control system, but in my eyes even that would be phony (and would just result in your arms getting tired faster... which admittedly would match a real flying situation if it were possible). Like many other discussions on here about "soaring" with a winged apparatus... it might be possible and it might be cool, but it's certainly a world of difference from a wingsuit. A wingsuit isn't quite human flight since we're still falling... but this other thing, if real, isn't quite human flight since there are motors. So you have to choose: Human falling OR Motorized flight But you don't get to have human flight, not counting how we skydivers nickname falling as flying. www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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Our Jarno is much more skilled at special effects. www.WingsuitPhotos.com
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He did it without a wing-suit or a box catcher or a fancy runway :)
The111 replied to jeb's topic in Wing Suit Flying
Ray Stone also did it in 2008 and broke his nose. http://www.matthoover.com/gallery/skydiving-videos/Z-Flock_4.0-HD.html (his jump is at 3:52, you have to let the video load before you can skip ahead) Of course the horse tackling guy is quite a bit more hardcore obviously.... but Stoney was a lot older I'll bet. www.WingsuitPhotos.com