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Sorry if this has already appeared in this forum - I could not be stuffed searching, but it looks like the race to land a wingsuit is over. The next step is to survive the landing.

Jeb - eat your heart out!

http://www.spike.com/...se-jump-from/2814676

at least he had good form!

http://www.sky2productions.com/...p;Itemid=1&id=16

Here is the first wingsuit landing w/out parachute. Performed last year by Stoney from Zhills, FL. This is the result of shitty weather and a solid cloud deck at 2k....Enjoy the vid.

~Jake

he needed a ramp to land on.

Doesnt work for me except a daft picture where I expected the video to play!.

Do you have to be a member on that site to view it?

My apologies.....Yes, apparently you must be a member. This is a newly added thing to this site that I was unaware of. There is alot of fun stuff on the site so I encourage becoming a member.

Scotty, If you read this...You could consider this a random act of promotion.

~Jake

It will still play if you click on Fullscreen...

I cant believe I watched that

who do i see about getting the last 3 minutes of my life back?

It's not a wingsuit at all . . .

This was back in the day right before having a parachute packed into some sort of wearable container became the norm. Up until then parachutes, mostly on balloons, were packed into external containers attached to the flying machine itself.

What this fellow was attempting to do, is he designed an external wearable framework, you can't see it under the canopy, that he draped the parachute over. The idea being, once in freefall, the parachute would lift cleanly off the framework and inflate. But, it didn't work.

However, it can be said this guy is the missing link between externally mounted and wearable parachutes . . .

NickD

Was that first video a guy that used to post on here...Sangisdad or something like that?