HOLY F#*K, insane wingsuit video!!

[VNugget]

http://www.ehrenguard.com/clocks/mountaindive.wmv

Wingsut skydiver jumps out of helo, skirts mountain ledge at about 10 feet AGL and a glide angle that appears to be as shallow as about 30 degrees!

 

[Typhoon1244]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn!

Ground effect...cool!

 

[fr0g]

wow.. that's @#$% insane!!
but it looks like one heck of a ride!!

 

[fr0g]

In case you want one too
http://www.bird-man.com/

 

[Timebuilder]

Man, that is INSANE!!!

Mountain base jumping. WILD!

 

[bigD]

Brass nads.

 

[VNugget]

I like the last question in Birdman's FAQ:

Q: Can I land the wing suit?

A: Serious injury or death may result after such a foolish attempt.



edit: It also looks like people BASE jump with these things

 

[ALASKAN AVIATOR]

crazy fukkers

 

[dash8driver]

there's another vid floating around out there that was made shortly after this suit was invented. the guy flew down low over a pass that was between two huge mountain spires. unfortunately the guy who invented that suit died later in hawaii in a skydiving accident in his birdsuit. he wound up head first just outside of dillingham airfield. before that point, he did some really incredible things with that suit.

 

[bart]

From what I have heard, it used to be easy to misrig the old suits, the guy in Dillingham some how wound up with his pilot chute in tow and pulled his reserve into it, resulting in a lovely tangled mess.

I guess simply skydiving is just not enough of a thrill for the "hey, look at me!" crowd.

 

[Eagleflip]

Deja Vu all over again?

Ahhh, visions of Burt Lancaster floating (nee dropping like a stone) on virtual sky-wings to his death in The Gypsy Moths.

Right in front of a horrified Debrah Carr, his latest conquest.

William Windom (jilted hubby) didn't shed a tear, though.

Looks mildly insane, but that latest video of the mountain jump was absolutely one of the wildest things I've ever seen...

 

[Flying Illini]

Pucker factor: 12 on a scale of 10

 

[FL240]

Look at me Mom! No brains!

 

[dash8driver]

yea.. its pretty nuts. i've known guys who have skydived with skis on onto a mountain (canopy open), the mountain slope having the same angle as their descent angle under canopy and sort of "skiing" the mountain while descending under canopy... but this is insane.

 

[katanabob]

Looking at what they have for sale on the birdman website.. you can give an 'Aloha from Hawaii' concert after jumping, without even needing to change clothes. Maybe there really was more to Elvis..

 

[sky37d]

That is simply insane. Wow, talk about ON THE EDGE!!! One slip, you're iced tea, with out the tea.

 

[Buffettpilot]

That is some bad a@@, crazy fishizle

 

[Super 80]

That was one wild ride. Thanks. My son wants to do it now, but then what does he know but everything--he's thirteen.

 

[surfnole]

I think this could be a fake. Could he really control his descent like that? Is this special effects?

Notice the shadow of him on the mountain when he looks down. If he was really that close to the mountain, I can't imagine him changing the position of his head to look down to his shadow. It would mess up his stability.

From the website:

Q: How far can you fly with the BirdMan suit?

A: From 13,500 ft. (4 km) to 3,000 ft. (1km) you cover over 3 miles. Speed and direction of the air you are flying may be completely different from the your ground speed and direction.

This a glide ratio roughly 3/2. Help me with my trig. Glide slope of
30 degrees?

 

[avbug]

I believe it was last year that the first skydive to landing without a canopy was conducted, on a slope, using a suit.

There are multiple generations of suits, with each being more amazing than the last.

Last year we had two regular suit users at my DZ. One would regularly exit after everyone else, some 7-10 miles from the DZ.

He also crushed the leading edge of the horizontal stab during an exit. He got big just after he went out the door, instead of falling clear. The suit inflated and carried him over the top of the stab (on a Caravan). He struck his leg on the stab and crushed it in about eight inches.

He didn't break his leg, though.

There's no reason to falsify a video like that; people do it. Skydiving only seems extreme if you're not doing it.