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From a purely performance perspective...and airtight collar is the correct thing, IMO. For performance the body of the suit should be snug and not fill with air. Kris. I had to cut down my Matters high collar, it bugged my apple. If we are that hard up for tight aerodynamics we could have gap seals around our pointy full face helmet like darth vader.
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Because the race ends at 3500 (or is that 2500?) feet. You open at the designated hard deck and see who got the furthest. A flying start groups everyone together (and wastes altitude doing that - and assumes everyone will be able to get to the line in time for the start) Quote Its also harder on the static base waiting for every one to line up. Even if your not in the line at the start late divers can transform the potential energy of a late start by approaching the base at a higher rate of speed and blow by everyone. To be really fair everyone will have to be inline and on level at go. The longer this takes the longer this will be cutting into the first to line ups stamina.
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And, BAM!, just like that the word is out. SkyFest is now SkyFLOCK. If I can drive my sorry ass two days from Florida, all you SoCal fruit boys can sure as hell make the trip to the Texas Republic for the first "real" mid-USA wingsuit event. Yes, I am serious. Chuck Well If Ed stops by in his 172 to get us we'll go. We have to go air as the state troopers won't let us in with Cali plates. First couch taters, now fruit boys? you're rackin up up all kinds of PA points, aren't cha?
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Yup a few new ones. F looks like the VKB project.
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Why? Our governing body sez I can pull at 2000.
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Don't forget what represents a complete wingsuit formation and how to hold a true wingsuit performance competition.
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More trash-talking Glen? No-one mentioned that the challenge would involve GPS's and no-one said you can't put your $20 down and get on the load. See you there! Are you referring to my response to your response of dloi's response about our lack of faith in the small sportsmans gps for accurate Data? Or my response to Smonkeys post about Jeffe being the best @Z-hills and how in a much bigger international pond he may not be the best? For clarification is any of that trash talking? I'm not claiming, personally, to be the best but would love to be there and fully intended to .... That is until Chuck called me a couch potato. I don't think he loves me anymore. By all rights I should just send in the $20. More beer for the worthy Phoenix pilots to enjoy.
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Fuck that. For a real test, let them fly until their AAD fires. Farthest wins. Be safe Ed What if you accidentally land it ? What do you win then? In this case my money is on Avery!
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Texas Wingsuit weekend --- tailgate aircraft
VectorBoy replied to voodew1's topic in Wing Suit Flying
Ex- Airforce guys don't go back to Texas. Even if Mexico is kicking us out or there is a storm in Louisana. Don't get me wrong its a great state but it was made special just for Texans. -
More manufacturer bashing and trash talk ... I know I'm sick of hearing it. Let's see the best fly their own creations in the same air at the same time and see what happens. I don't think he is manufacturer bashing as he is just not as trusting of the small portable gPS units. I agree! A few years ago I was hiking in steep mountain terrain with a lensatic compass and topo map. Three other hikers were using hand size gPS units. They were off hundreds of feet laterally and about a thousand feet vertically from one another........ and we were just standing still on a hill top not moving along a glide path that a wingsuit would. You can get GPS units certified to be accurate enough to land an airliner but they are the size of a couple of stacked telephone books mounted in an airliner instrument panel. They are the price of several wingsuits.
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Once again Matt nice video! Nice visuals, soundtrack and brilliant use of the Iron lung effect. We are very jealous of your clouds with high vertical development. Playful use of aerobatics seldom seen.
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Texas Wingsuit weekend --- tailgate aircraft
VectorBoy replied to voodew1's topic in Wing Suit Flying
This tread has gone so wrong. And I can't help feel at least partly responsible. -
No, Jeff is obviously not flying a 7:1 ratio, but he can outfly anyone on this dropzone, myself included. Chuck It has just become painfully obvious that Z-hills can no longer be considered the area -51 of wingsuit flight testing. And it also completely explains the perception you guys bring, which is not wrong as some of us have concluded prior, but is more accurately shall we say.....limited. You realize this is no longer a brand war but more of an east coast Vs west coast thing. Jeffro will fill you in on the details of getting comprehensively smoked, out performed, laid to waste. Europe and the middle east you can be part of this too, convincing the east coast what fat bastards they are will not be easy.
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I have, as well as other I know, seen this exact scene. The suit(s) in question were the old S3, Matter 2s & 3s, and the Acro. But more specifically from only two pilots regardless what suit they were in. At the end of the jump they still had the stamina and fortitude to go hard and flat for longer and lower it was never about the suit. I jump a canopy that soaks up the altitude on opening they both fly lower and deploy canopys that can open in 300 feet which they deploy in hard flight.
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Texas Wingsuit weekend --- tailgate aircraft
VectorBoy replied to voodew1's topic in Wing Suit Flying
You gotta fight fire with fire. Or hairy lesbien midgets. -
What happened to the Vampire slayer you flew when you were doing demos out at some DZs in the west. We've never met and I wasn't at the two DZs when you tested your Vampire slayer against the local talent, I was falling through the thin high air at Moab at the time. But I heard no Vampires were harmed in the comparison. Not even a scratch. Could it be that the V2 pilots in the east are not as high performing as the capable (as demonstrated) V2 pilots out west? Maybe Z-hills is not the epicenter of human flight as some of its denizens would have us believe? Maybe we can take a guess as to exactly whom the fat Americans that VKB is refering to reside?
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Texas Wingsuit weekend --- tailgate aircraft
VectorBoy replied to voodew1's topic in Wing Suit Flying
after we left him staring at us from below and and the distance at Moab he went home ordered a new suit and would probably not want to come get embarrased again!Quote We had already ordered new suits way before you guys smoked us. I did shave and tatto my sack, I'll show you, Now that I did because you embarrased me. -
I can get the same speeds when I'm heading straight at the planet but I can't those speeds flying parallel to the planet without the V2.
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What is the "type of flying that has gained popularity recently"? I thought there were only two, max out or stall? Its more of a type of flying that has reached popularity with the audience. Flying where there is a close flirtation with the terrain, rock, trees, shrubs. I don't do it, but I don't think it is about max flight Vs stall but more about finesse and control. I might be wrong about the second paragraph but not the first.
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Now it was designed to look good in a disco. Stay'n alive stay'n alive, phi!
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Gigantor. Good cartoon and a good enough theme song to be copied by several great punk bands.
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If the people at birdman would spend more time engineering there suits and less time b.s.ing everybody with teaser ad after teaser ad they would have a better flying suit. looks like they are only concernd with styling and not performance. Hey now be nice, we are all bird brothers and sisters. It is not bird mans fault that their most prolific designer left the company and started his own and has kept up with prolific designing. Meanwhile every other company that thinks good wingsuit designers are as common as sandwich makers is gonna have some problems when their suit does not perform to the benchmark laid out by designers who know what they are doing and have been doing it for a while successfully.
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Despite the claim of a higher performance from some other manufacturers I'm not sure they are touching the envelope already provided by existing PF models. I think the new suit is aimed at a specific audience who share a specific goal or rather a type of flying that has gained popularity recently. I could be wrong about the second paragraph but certainly not the first one.
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Few people will argue the vampire has the most forward speed. The complaints might be huge arm strain, lack of stability when tired, not a well rounded average flock suitable suit. But the first person that sez its slow is gonna get the hammer! The only thing faster has jet engines!
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I had ASEL . I don't think the instructor ever spoke to me. Ditto here. After deployment on my level one I was finding the stall and doing pretty hard toggle whips and loving it. I quit skydiving in the early 80's. A big part of it was that they wouldn't let me fly a ram air without at least a hundred jumps despite my experience. After such a long lay off it was recommended I do AFF, I agreed. I landed, perfect flare, tip toe, at the feet of my instructors without any radio instruction. They did have to remind me that I was to land in the student area and not the licenced jumper area, though.