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Welcome to the flock brother !!! The best way now to make leaps in your skills is to attend some of the wingsuit events this fall. WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

Wish we could be there. We were already committed to support other events. Nick is great. Very glad to hear he will be supporting this boogie at the DZ that started it all for both Chris and myself. Maybe he will jump his para-commander with his wing suit !!! WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

Calling all birds --- everyone is welcome, get yourself to the Orange boogie and get you Flock on. Could be a great way to tune up for Flock N Dock 3.5 Hopefully we will add many new folks to the larger US Wing Suit flock. Feel free to add your name here if you can make it. WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

Well done, sorry we could not make it. Ask Tony to contact us, we are jonesing for our SM1s!!! : ) WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

Very nice !!! WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

Video posted of various Wing Suit clips from SkyFest 2007. Access at the following: MYSPACE.COM - http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=14981669 YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_1DY5BXQvQ www.skydivingmovies.com - upload pending, should be available within 48 hrs WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

Pls - Post some close-up pics of the mods. WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

ANNOUNCING --- Matt's new typing course !!!! Regardless of your split attention and focus, Matt's world class system can help you. Do you often mis-spell words or type the wrong letter in haste? Matt's structured approach is right for you. It's even rumored to prevent tail strikes. WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

Thanks for the post. We will enahance the focus on these topics during our FFC training. WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

I'm sure Tony and Jeff can build one before then. WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

I had a recent and very interesting exchange with someone in the aeronautical engineering department of Virginia Tech. It focused on the pursuit of "Morphing Wing" technology (e.g changing the surface area and shape of aircraft wings much like we do in wing suit flight). JUST COOL - IF YOU ARE A SCI-TECHIE..... It will be interesting to see if any of the models they are working with or produce can be used to simulate wing suit flight. Text below from - http://www.afrlhorizons.com/Briefs/Jun05/VAH0502.html Scientists have considered designing a vehicle that includes morphing wings for many years. Variable-sweep wings first made their appearance on operational aircraft in the 1960s. Their morphing capabilities were limited, however; the variable-sweep wings could change their angle, but not their surface area. True morphing did not become possible until the past decade, during which scientists began to develop smart materials. When exposed to a thermal, electric, or magnetic field, smart materials respond by exerting force, and scientists can channel this force to initiate an aircraft wing’s desired transformation. Using smart materials, scientists were able to develop higher-power-density actuator systems that could create a specific, controlled reaction. Ongoing advancements in this area eventually led today’s scientists to their current work on morphing wing technology. Today’s systems continue to rely on these actuators to control wing morphing, much the same as a bird uses its muscles to control its own wings. Scientists are examining how to distribute the actuators throughout the aircraft wing structure to enable its transformation into different shapes. In addition, they are studying mechanized wing structures. In the past, a wing structure’s sole purpose was to carry the aerodynamic loads; in essence, the structure served as the bones of the aircraft. A wing that must also support morphing movements, however, could benefit from mechanization. Therefore, scientists are exploring ways to mechanize aircraft wing structures. Their goal is to efficiently integrate actuators into the structure so that it remains capable of bearing the load but can also move. Fundamentally, the actuators would behave similarly to the joints in a human body. The technology currently exists to use actuators in this way, but they would be so bulky and heavy that performance and payload capability would suffer. For the last 50 years, wings have been constructed with a box/beam configuration to resist aerodynamic forces. They have spars that run parallel with the wing structure and are surrounded by a skin, a configuration that veryeffectively keeps the wing from bending (spars) and twisting (skin). Despite its advantages, however, this construction is too rigid to allow large-scale structural deformation. To overcome this barrier, morphing project contractor NextGen Aeronautics designed a hinged spar structure that resists twisting motion as effectively as the skin in a box/beam configuration. The viability of this and similar concepts is dependent upon the development of a new type of skin. This skin will need to be very flexible, rendering traditional materials such as aluminum obsolete. Engineers may pattern the new skin to function more like human skin—very flexible, but stiff enough not to deform under aerodynamic loads. AFRL is fulfilling two vital roles in advancing morphing technology: (1) conducting mission analysis, and (2) creating advanced-analysis simulations. In support of mission analysis, scientists have already conducted many technical studies to examine the ways in which the type of morphing wing and its specific characteristics affect aircraft capabilities such as airspeed, altitude, and time on station. Now, they are using this acquired knowledge base to determine practical uses for the warfighter by matching technical capability to AF needs such as persistence and agility. Similarly, AFRL scientists in the midst of creating advanced-analysis simulations have entered a new, more sophisticated modeling phase. They are creating computer simulation models that include more accurate descriptions of the aerodynamic forces placed on aircraft wings. The resulting design environment facilitates complete analysis of wing control and structural integrity in advance of building an actual model. If these wings become a future reality, this modeling technology will save time and money by virtually eliminating the need for trial-and-error design. Further, scientists are continuously increasing the accuracy of these virtual models by validating them against physical models. They will eventually pursue additional model improvements through wind tunnel and flight testing. The bat wing is scheduled to undergo flight testing on a remotecontrolled air vehicle in the near future. Throughout at least the next decade, scientists will use the results of this study as a stepping stone for conceiving and developing viable air platforms with many possible uses, one of which is likely homeland security. For example, F-16s currently patrol the skies for long periods of time in anticipation of events requiring their swift action. This patrol is monotonous, and it requires frequent refueling. An alternative solution might be an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) system that incorporates morphing technologies. The UAV could slowly patrol an area for long periods of time without leaving its station. If events necessitate action, the UAV could morph and quickly respond to investigate the situation. The private airline industry may also use this technology to increase fuel efficiency, and it may be pertinent to micro air vehicle development as well. Morphing technology has the potential to overcome a multitude of problems and limitations; ultimately, it will not only dramatically alter air vehicle appearance, but also greatly influence associated performance standards. Other related links: http://www.primidi.com/2007/07/24.html http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2004/04/25.html http://www.psu.edu/ur/2004/morphwing.html http://www.me.vt.edu/morphingwing/ http://news.ufl.edu/2005/08/23/morphing-planes/ WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

If I could take the time from work and swing the cash I would be there. Do some cloud surfing for me. WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

Zeemax: The Tony Suits Instructor's Course has yet been fully offered as a formal program. Both Chris and I have had to go through more of an appreniship since February. We have gotten more than 40 - 50 hours of detailed hands one instruction and education over that time, side-by-side with both Jeff and Tony. In that time we were educated in the aspects of all of the versions of Tony's designs, why certian design feathers were introduced, the flight characteristics and so on. We have also demonstrated to both Jeff and Tony our flying abilities of the course of several months and some 5 boogies, where we directly assisted in ground courses and eventually in air instruction, all supervised and evaluated. I am familar with the PFI and BMI courses, while I would say the BMI is more formal, the amount of time, education and total assessment time/value we have gone through has been significant. In addition, not own was our instructional abilities directly evaluated (multiple times), both Chris and I have significant teaching and coaching exprience in other venues. As a side note - our approach is to safely exposed new flyers to wing suit flight. To date we have not made a single dollar from these efforts and have covered our own travel costs to the many events. I know Jeff is working on a formal Tony Suits rating course, I'm sure more on this is to follow once is cross country tour is complete. WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

Z-Hills Oct 5 - 7 WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

If not, there will be more than enough demo suits. WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

The flock keeps growing !!! Can not wait. How about some thoughts and input on activities, types of flights desired, evening events?? Is the group more interested in skills development (eg smaller tighter flocks)? Big ways (formation loads)? Small group coaching? Advanced formation flying? Performance flying? Distance/time challenges? Record attempts? High altitude wing suit jumps? Wing suit aerobatics / freeflocking? Topical training / info sharing: Backflying, wing suit camera, ect... Demo-ing different suits? The more people we have, the more manufactures will likely attend. Tailgate aircraft????

29 and counting ..... and lots of high quality talent !!! I'm seeing tight flocks in our future. Looks like at least 2 aircraft needed. Formation loads baby .... Oh yeah. WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

I had to go down to central VA to do my AFF several years ago. I lived in Columbia. They is just not a turbine DZ inside of 1.5 hrs driving time. Would be great to see one open in MD. What is the interest level from local skydivers, instructors, and potential staff? What about a club concept? Like Orange? WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

Tony from Flock N Dock and Campos' Skills Camp took his RM to Europe for some base jumping. Heard second hand he had a blast. Perhaps he will post here. WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

Any opportunity to flock with HOT wing suit babes is a GOOD DAY!!! Really enjoyed flying with you, really solid flights !!! Hope you can make it to Flock N Dock. Later. WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

Great shots. Thanks for posting !!!! WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

No problem. Are you going to be at the entire Orange Boogie? We will send you a PM for some details. WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

We typically look for around 200 jumps, but consider other factors as well. Jump numbers are not everything. We have trained folks that had 150-ish jumps, but they had multiple tracking jumps, were very heads up skydivers, and also very current. WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

The Brothers Gray will be conducting first flight and basic wing suit formation flight training at Skydive Orange in Virginia on August 17, 18, and 19. Candidates are assessed on a case-by-case basis, not on absolute total jump numbers. Other factors include, but not limited to: Currency (eg # of recent jumps) Skill in tracking Overall skydiving abillities/skill Recommendations of USPA instructors Assessment of wing suit instructors during training Goals of the training are: 1) to introduce people to wing suit flying in a safe and controlled environment, 2) to prepare potential pilots for safe solo flying after the training, 3) to introduce those who demostrate the appropriate skill level to basic formation wing suit flying, and 4) to provide general information of skill development and equipment selection. Please reply or send a PM for details or to express interest. WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com

Current Count Stands at: 1. Scott B. (Notsane) 2. Mike M. (Gray Mike) C. Sean H. (Monkycndo) 4. Scott Gray (The Brothers Gray) 5. Chris Gray (The Brothers Gray) 6. Justin Shorb (Flock U) 7. Ryan Desjardins (Soon to bee Canadian Flocker) 8. Bob Futrell (FlyinBob) 9. Mark M 10. Phil Peggs 11. Matt Hoover 12. Mike Rinehart (Missingparts) 13. Frank Boluk 14. Scotty Burns (scottygofast) 15. Robert Kelley (ROK) 16. Jeff Nebelkopf (Heffro1) 17. Tony Uragallo (Tony Suits) 18. Chuck Blue (SkymonkeyONE) 19. Todd S (DaMan) 20. Michelle (EmLo) 21. "The" Le Roy (leroydb) 22. Dan M (arai) 23. BJ Alexander 24. Tyler (jumpinfly) 25. Mark (normiss) WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly The Brothers Gray Wing Suit Academy Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie. www.thebrothersgray.com