Mountain Project: Forum: Mountain Wingsuit

By M.Morley
Administrator
From Sacramento, CA
Mar 10, 2008

Check this out...amazing!

bobandsylvia.com/WINGSUIT.htm

By trundlebum
From Henderson NV
Dec 31, 2008

I am blown away by flight suits and their enhancement on jumping but...

I am also a sail maker and I can't help but think that todays suits are extremely barbaric and in just a few years from now we will see radical advancements in design.

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By cstorms
From Cape Cod, MA
Dec 31, 2008

i love the part where he does two flips and then just continues gliding...that must be like a dream.

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By trundlebum
From Henderson NV
Dec 31, 2008

Amen, The guy doing the flips, that is just soooo coool ! ;)

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By cstorms
From Cape Cod, MA
Dec 31, 2008

Hank-

have you used a wing suit before?

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By trundlebum
From Henderson NV
Jan 1, 2009

Hank:
I (and I assumed 'cstorms' as well) meant the flips the one guy does during mid flight, not at launch or whatever you guys call it.

But thanks for that comment, that is fascinating and makes good sense but if you weren't a base jumper I don't think that it would ever come to mind that the opening gainers are part of the orientation involved in the first few seconds.

Cool stuff !

I saw one vid were Dean Potter was talking and he said that he know can track as good with no suit as he could with one two years ago.

It must be a hard skill to develop.
Are those indoor flight centers of any use for training, or simply novelty ?

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By Buff Johnson
Jan 8, 2009

In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth. <br /> <br />The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve. <br /> <br />After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only "orphans" that could be found quickly, were a litter of weaner pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger. <br />

what are the requirements for glide/clearance in using the wingsuit?

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By Brendan N. (grayhghost)
From Salt Lake City, Utah
Jan 8, 2009

trundlebum wrote:

It must be a hard skill to develop. Are those indoor flight centers of any use for training, or simply novelty ?

Some people are just born for it. I was a nordic ski jumper for 11 years so I have no problem sticking my neck into the wind.

Wind Tunnels are fun, but they can't simulate the horizontal aspect of wingsuiting. They are more of a traditional skydiving training tool.

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By Brendan N. (grayhghost)
From Salt Lake City, Utah
Jan 8, 2009

Mark Nelson wrote:

what are the requirements for glide/clearance in using the wingsuit?

You need about 900 feet of clean, vertical terrain to get started, then all the talus you can fly.

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