Flying Suits

[Jim_P_Pulfrew]

This is probably one of the greatest things I have ever seen on Yoof Tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmlAW_1hgT8&feature=youtu.be

I initially thought it is speeded up for effect, but when the bloke flies over the winding pass you can see him going at warp factor snot while a coach slowly grinds its way up the hill.

I commend it to you all

Jimps

 

[vim_fuego]

These guys have balls of steel...The margin for error when they are virtually brushing the treetops or skirting the rockface is fag paper thin...every movement of their body may affect the flight envelope so if you forget yourself or god forbid get a cramp you would become a red streak on a ckiff face...

respect!

As an aside one would have thought the mil would either have had a hand in such technology or now looking very seriously at it as a method of insertion.

 

[grumpyoldb]

I want to see the out takes.................... DT_Xtremez_31:

 

[Talk Wrench]

Didn't one of the said guys wipe out a few weeks ago?

 

[ajay]

Didn't one of the said guys wipe out a few weeks ago?

Yes indeed broke both legs, it's on utube somewhere -pretty grimDT_Xtremez_09:

 

[monobrow]

Jeb Corliss. 1st the vid that caught attention
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfph3iNC-k

2nd, the one where he doesn't make it...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEFCQRwj28w

 

[grumpyoldb]

I felt that! DT_Xtremez_42: Thanks Mono. DT_Xtremez_14:

 

[Craig855s]

Must be an incredible feeling, no mistakes allowed there though, I wonder if these suits allow you to fly straight? (In case you find yourself following a slope directly into the ground and need to create some clearance to open your chute?)

 

[monobrow]

Must be an incredible feeling, no mistakes allowed there though, I wonder if these suits allow you to fly straight? (In case you find yourself following a slope directly into the ground and need to create some clearance to open your chute?)

Once you have speed he should be able to manipulate it to pull up should the worst happen, but the margin between an achievment and a mess is so fine I doubt he thought it was going to be a problem until it was too late.

 

[grumpyoldb]

Hope he didn't have a stiffy when it grounded...............! DT_Xtremez_42:

 

[I Look Like Kevin Costner]

Jeb Corliss has done thousands of base jumps and quite a few big suit dives as well. His girlfriend does the same! They did a base jump from the Petronas towers I believe.. She was imaculate, he blew it and broke both ankles on landing.. He did a jump of the Angel Falls as a teenager.. and spent 3 days getting out of the rain forest below! Love the statement of his after landing on "Grinding the Crack".. "I came extremely close on that one!"

 

[Dave-exfairy]

As an aside one would have thought the mil would either have had a hand in such technology or now looking very seriously at it as a method of insertion.

AFAIK they have, "them" from the Hereford gun club were apparently testing these early to mid 2000's in the airspace above the old RAF base at Sculthorpe.

 

[unruly1986]

Look on YouTube for Bilspen fly-bys, very impressive. Also any of the 'Phoenix fly' vids.

Jeb Corliss (guy who crashed into table mountain) wants to land one of these things. He has a HUD on his visor that is linked to gps, so he knows if he's on the correct glideslope.