A flight I'm not willing to take...

[munitalP]

A flight I'm not willing to take...

Possibly the best base jumping / wingsuit video ever! - YouTube

 

[SeatBackForward]

Three names to look up on YouTube:

Jeb Corbliss
Joke Sommer
wsflyingtiger

It's amazing what they do.

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[here2go]

Sugar gliders in a former life.

 

[albatross710]

I dream of doing this.

 

[drivatruk]

if i did that id live up to the reputation that birds have when it comes to flying overhead.....

 

[risky]

Some of the Qantas flights last year had a 45 min video of Jeb doing his wingsuit flying on IFE.

 

[albatross710]

Some of the Qantas flights last year had a 45 min video of Jeb doing his wingsuit flying on IFE.

Actually that reminds me, when i was on SQ last week, there was a pre-movie warning about the visor containing "aircraft scenes" in the same context that they warn when it contains violence and adult themes. I guess it was to warn people about aircraft crash jokes or something.

Speaking of which, the other flight dream i used to have was being able to find my skydiving gear in my luggage in the even of an inflight disintegration of the aircraft. I'm much more mature now and the aircraft are much better too.

 

[sutho58]

bet he doesn't have life insurance...

 

[hummel]

A big fan of these kind of videos. I've done a very basic tandem jump and it really made me respect these guys that much more!

When I jumped I was talking to my instructor, asking him does he instruct full time etc he told me works for six months, sleeps on his mates floor then goes to europe and jumps off cliffs

Can not wait to jump again, thinking of doing it out of a chopper in Interlaken next month.

 

[Sifor]

Absolutely incredible videos. I could imagine this being used in a James Bond movie.. or perhaps real special forces dudes already use them >_>

 

[SeatBackForward]

bet he doesn't have life insurance...

Jeb Corbliss had a major stack earlier this year, look up "Jeb Corbliss Grounded" for high definition video of the moment of impact.

And here's how you land without deploying the parachute:
[video=youtube_share;dRB-woVjlFY]http://youtu.be/dRB-woVjlFY[/video]

And sadly the statistics are not good in this sport. Look up Arne Aarset.

 

[JohnK]

I prefer to have my feet on the ground.

This one goes in the "never to be attempted in this lifetime" list....