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This is a BASE container (Morpheus Gargoyle) so the whole container is open and may look very different to you without the reserve, but you can see an example of the dynamic corners. They are the quarter circle shapes between the side and bottom flaps. The fold in them allow them fold up on themselves and sit between the canopy and the side flaps.

Copied from Fordy's post to uk.rec.skydiving. I'll be there and I can't wait! Hello all, There will be a wingsuit festival at weston on the green on the 20th/21st July as advertised in "Skydive Mag" The aircraft for the weekend are Cessna Caravan (electric door, sound system!!) turbine beaver and turbine islander... We have Demo suits, thanks to Hinton skydiving centre, the Red Devils display team and my wingsuit flying friends who have kindly donated there origional suits for the weekend, without the above the weekend would not be half as much fun. Ticket price for visiting jumpers is £15.00.... altitude 12,000-14,000ft depending on air traffic... Minimum requirement, 500 jumps to fly a wingsuit... BOC throw-away P.C only... NO PIN-PULL EQPT TO BE USED FOR WINGSUIT FLYING. if you have made descents on a wingsuit with an elliptical canopy then please bring your own eqpt along, for First time wingsuit flyers NON ELLIPTICAL canopies only. This weekend is a great opportunity for current uk wingsuit flyers of all standards to get together and learn from each other,attempt some bigger formations, and introduce jumpers to this fantastic discipline.... So if you have made some descents and want to help wingsuit flying to progress, or would like to try wingsuit jumping for the first time with experianced flyers then get down to weston for the weekend. any enquires please e-mail me ford1fly@aol.com RAFSPA Weston on the green.

That was the 500th post here so the forum can now attempt to learn to fly a Birdman suit on it's own :-P Seriously though, how did you get on with that container you were trying to mod Fordy? Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Listen pal, we invented the language, so don't tell me how to speak it proper!! :-) Sorry for the confusion; it was a sort of rhetorical suggestion. An ", eh?" at the end may have helped clarify it! Is it you or Andy that moves the files from the uploads directory to somewhere more logical? If it's you, don't those rights allow you to modify the welcome text? Modifying the welcome text would be best, but the search would be cool too. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

That needs to be sorted really?

Yes, it's encoded using the Intel i263 Codec. I should know :-P One of the first things I ever captured, I think.

Dan, is the Test Report with the Data Analysis available?

Indeed! I've considered this, expecially with regards to claims for Speed Skydiving world records. The format of the data is pretty simple and could be recreated artificially fairly easily. The art would come in making it look real. I couldn't be bothered but I bet there are people out there who could be! A smooth acceleration and matching decceleration with and average of 350 mph right in the 1km measuring zone would arouse my suspicions! Anyone else notice how Willem didn't discount any of my observations? :-)

This is a joke, right? I mean, if this guy is really a freeflyer, what the hell is he doing breaking-off at 6,000 feet and why hasn't he got a wide-enough angle to get the whole of the plane in as it flys past underneath him?! Seriously though, I would be doubting this if Michael hand't chipped in with some "official" sounding confirmation. How easy would this be to fake? This is a very high speed incident and the plane would only have to be, and is, in view for a couple of frames. There is some blockiness around the plane but this could be just to do with the MPEG compression. Purely subjectively, the vertical distance seems to increase more than the horizontal which implies that the plane is flying horizontally slower than terminal? How can you hear the direction from which a plane is flying? Ok, probably a poor choice of words, but how easy is it to hear the engines of a plane in freefall? It's hard to remember for how long I am aware of that noise adter exit; more important things to worry about usually. What kind of helmet was Peter wearing? Most certainly covers the ears if it's a camera helmet. I don't know about falling "between the vertical stabilizer and elevator". It looks like the plane completely passes underneath in the four frames in which it occurs. It's difficult to tell from the angle and the width of the lens but from the position I would guess that they wouldn't have collided even if the timing had been different. And what is with all the alti checks? And the glitches on the video? Collision between skydivers and aircraft have occured before, the last onevery recently here in the UK and I don't mean to belittle this; I'm just playing Devil's advocate. If it's real, I'm glad this guy was lucky and didn't turn out as another fatality. Do the FAA have a Near Miss reporting system where this can be verified? :-) I'm not normally a conspiracy theorist, honest! Now I'm going to sit back and wait for the flames...

Check out my perspective of boarding this beast! ftp://ftp.skydivingmovies.com/public/CraigPoxon/BoardingAntonov.mpg (still can't fu(king link ftp urls!) Listen for the wind coming off the idling engines and check out the whuffos climbing aboard without rigs. At least they strapped them in that year!

You are not the same Jussi then? :-P Do you know if it was intentional?

No, because it has a space in it. I reported the bug in the proper forum but never got a response. The url is http://www.bird-man.com/pdf/Flight manual.pdf

Talking of close, been looking at the pictures on the BirdMan website again, and only just realised how close some of them are. It's a wide-angle lens but look at the shadow of Jussi's foot on the Otter stabilizer in this picture. Whole body shadow on this picture Is it as close as it looks?

There is some awesome video on the Skyray website. It's 24 MB but well worth the download.

Written on the 22nd of May this year. It is 643 Kb and available on the Birdman website

This is the pack tracy of the Voodoo 2

This is the pack tray of the original Voodoo

Haven't received my Skydiving yet (I'm in Europe) but it sounds like you could be talking about the SkyRay? There is some good video of these guys tracing across the sky with smoke on the Espace 2000 video.

Genevieve Jacques according to the Cincinati Enquirer

As far as I'm aware, it never came back from a service (or was it repairs?) in Denmark shortly after the Caravan arrived. I guess Langar wanted to maximise their purchase of the Caravan. According to my logbook, the last time i jumped out of it was 24th February 2001.

Is that the Hunting Aviation one? Weston used that recently after the Nomad problem I believe. I hope it's not the same one as that one is slow and the pilots don't like flying jumpers alledegly...

I've jumped both a Voodoo (1) and Voodoo 2 with a wingsuit. The pack tray of the original Voodoo seemed a lot more open and it's the one thing I would have liked to seen carried over onto the newer version. I'll try and dig some photos out of the difference between the two. I talked with Sacha, the European Icarus Canopies guy, at the Empuria Christmas boogie and I believe he was telling me how he used to work for Rigging Innovations and was involved with the development and testing of the first Voodoo. He said jumps were done with wingsuits and it was a particular consideration. Whilst the pack tray is more enclosed on the V2, I wouldn't have thought they'd forget about wingsuits. I've never had a problem with my V2 (only twisted a couple of times but that was probably due to bad body position, oh, and one total :-o), but then I partially come out of the track and back into freefall on deployment anyway. This is with a 30" zp pc and standard bridle.

Ear-plugs are cheap. I'll have a box with me if anyone wants some. Also, I "heard" that this would be a "Super" Skyvan doing 3.5 lifts an hour. And don't forget the BirdMen love tailgates too!

There's no such DZ as Langer! :-P I know too which is another clue... I reckon Birdmen should get priority to jump from it, after it's intended use of course!

This is a close-up view of the stress on the material between the leg and the leg wing. Anyone else seeing this apart from Chuck and I? I have more example pics if anyone would like to see them?