KrisFlyZ

Everyone flies better in the bigger suit than a smaller suit so is bigger better? For example...I flew better(both fallrate and distance) in a GTI than in a classic and better in an S3 than the GTI. Kris.

Thanks for the pics

Thanks Chuck That suit definately has huge wings . Kris.

You mean this V2?

Turbulence? Kris.

Hi Jeff, Can you please post some pictures?

I jump the same size canopies as you do in a Mirage G4(didn't pay attention to your container). the container will not make that much difference....getting down to smaller canopies will....but if that means one leg shorter than the other why bother. That is my thinking for me. YMMV. Kris.

Damn, I miss jumping the wingsuit with others . Nice video Matt. Kris.

Almost looks like he would have been better off landing without anything deployed. Doesnt seem like the canopy has taken any speed out of the freefall/flight yet... probably as close as you can get to actualy landing a wingsuit without a canopy... If he hadn't deployed this would have likely been a fatality. Glad that the jumper is alive. Hope he gets well soon. It looks from the video like a lot of altitude was lost in the deployment sequence prior to PC release(almost 2 secs) and then the deployment was almost vertical. Maybe TomA who saw James's jump from below can post his observations but my bet is that James's opening was more horizontal than vertical(used less altitude to open). Kris.

yup...on DVD please. Kris.

That is more than the jumps(if you count airplane only) I made in two seasons here. But that's expected. Kris.

Just some BS calculations on how much wider the wing on this is than a V2 wing...flyers are different so there will be slight variations. Mach 1 Prototype. Leg wing width ; 742 Arm wing width : 852 Flyer Height : 896 LW/AW ratio : 0.87 LW/Height : 0.828 V2 leg wing width : 217 Arm wing width : 270 Flyer Height : 290 leg wing/arm wing ratio: 0.80 Leg wing/height : 0.748 The pics used are attached. Height and widths are in pixels. As Chuck says very wide legwing indeed. I would prefer a smaller arm wing though...and at a higher point along the torso instead of almost at the knee . Would also like a butt deflector for more speed. Kris.

most of this winter and most of next summer as well. Beat that . Kris.

Motionbased.com got even better... Its 2D map and satelite image overlay with playback. . The BASE logs that I have uploaded to MB.com are private. Its cool for laptop users like me that cannot install the full version of Google earth. Kris.

Cool.... Will wait for pics of the Mach 1...then again....If Tony sent a demo to Headcorn . Kris.

What do the wings look like compared to a V2 or S3? Do the arms come forward(swept forward?) like the other Zwing suits? Ofcourse a pic would be nice if possible. Kris.

I wouldn't buy a suit with webbed gloves.....just on principle . Does the big suit(Mach 1) have webbed gloves? And flying a big suit in BASE is far away for me...got a lot more to get out of the Phantom. Kris.

Chuck, Any comparision on how wide the leg wing is? Say to a V2 in Jeff's size. From your earlier post about it(another thread) it seems like it is much bigger. Is Tony putting a BASE pouch on his big suits ? Kris.

I have heard this big leg wing leading edge(moving it backand....) on the leg wing theory a couple of times. Can you post your thoughts on this and the following? a) We have such little wing area ...is losing any amount of it to a big hole in the leg wing justified? On Robi's designs the the butt deflector fills up the hole. On your suit, the hole seems(if I am seeing it correctly) to let air to pass around the butt deflector. b) The newer designs that have proved themselves for glide...have less drag and bigger surface area(in a more air friendly aspect ratio) than previous designs(and are also if the body shape allows naturally nose down to cut thru the air). How much 'lift' do you think is coming from the design (other than the size and thickness) of the wing. Kris.

It's just what Yuri says.....all wingsuit flights when videoed from the exit point are like squashing a bug on the computer screen and staring at it . Obviously this is not a two way .because the cliff is technical and was being opened(jumped for the first time) on this jump. Kris.

Yeah on skydiving movies. PF video Kris.

The angle is steep on the V series of suits because of the wing area distribution(the biggest difference between the SF family and the Vampire Family). Any suit can be stalled. DOn't know about sweet spot on V2 but seems like Yuri's post suggests that he found it . Kris.

I am one of the big culprits myself.... Back to Topic...discuss... Chuck, after opening 3 new walls with V2 over the weekend i very strongly suggest you reconsider. It took about 30 flights to dial it in, but now V2 flies like absolutely nothing else in the sky. I am much happier on this trip than i was with the same suit in the same mountains a month ago This does include the best vertical range out there. The only way i can possibly see you wishing for more is if you want to fly slow in both horizontal and vertical dimentions - but then you just need a large surface area, a big tarp you could schlare bsbd! Yuri.

I have some GPS data on that, however me and Darren(the dive and plane out guy) are quite differently built for the exact same weight(160 lbs). Yeah, I am not a 190 lb Texan anymore. Diving after the exit and planing out gives incredible forward speed(110-140 mph for 18 secs) and the glide during this period is 3.3(starting speed is 116 mph so no surprise)....the overall glide before turning(he flies to the road and turns) on his jumps was less than 2.0. My glide in the Phantom is better...I don't dive. Kris.

Well, you got me Matt . I meant keeping the knees straight and pushing the legs down from the torso...hence the mention of ab workouts...... Yuri_base, After going for significantly nose down and high speed flights at Kjerag, I flattened out the first few flights at the ITW the third flight was too slow and got me a 55 sec flight with opening altitude of about 900ft. The glide(steady state between 1000m and 500m is quite good)...however there is a 25mph forward speed loss(remember?). This was 17.3 m/s downward. I don't belive the GPS data from the next flight flight(overall fallrate is just under 15 m/s and glide is too good) but FWIW, it was a slower flight forward and downward than I usually fly. Will try more of this from airplane and cliffs next year. Winters here . What can definately be learnt is a) Glide is great when the course is not off by much...this flight had a variation of only 7 degrees from the 9th to the 47th second. This is also inline with observations from my airplane jumps. Quite logical too...if the wing is not symmetric horizontally we are spilling more air than necessary. b) If you want to impress the chicks, learn to fly in a straight line....that way the arrival height at a well known point like above the LZ or the Bar is higher . Kris.