Comments on: Project XRW: World Record in ‘Wingsuit Surfing’

By: Carl Enslin

Carl Enslin — Fri, 25 May 2012 04:44:00 +0000

As you proberly now by now, Garry Connery landed safley yesterday 24 May 2012 with his wingsuit! Free beers for all

By: John Gattoni

John Gattoni — Thu, 24 May 2012 04:56:00 +0000

What is the song info in this video?

Artist and song please?

Thanks

By: Ma'lia Harper-Wiseley

Ma'lia Harper-Wiseley — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:38:00 +0000

This was the bomb! Again, I found something crazy that I would like to do… Just give me some time… YeeeeeeeHawwwww!

By: Francis Gastellu

Francis Gastellu — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:21:00 +0000

The wingsuit is not supporting the canopy, the canopy is supporting itself. The wingsuit is a very large surface model, which allows the pilot to slow down vertical descent to very slow speeds (compared to freefall). On the other hand, the canopy is a very very small canopy, which means that its vertical speed is very fast (compared to ‘normal’ canopies). The two flight envelopes barely meet, which is why the canopy pilot is using clamps on his forward elevators, to increase the descent rate even more, and the wingsuit pilot is flying closer to the edge of stall that he normally would, to slow down his descent rate even more.

Pretty damn amazing, but don’t necessarily assume that it means wingsuits will land soon without parachutes. The canopy is so fast that you need thousands of jumps to master it, and you use a technique to land it that you cannot use with a wingsuit due to the much larger surface of the canopy compared to the wingsuit, and the fact that you stand upright. No matter what you do, the wingsuit still has a very high horizontal speed (around 200kph), so even with the right slope, that’ll be like jumping off a motorbike at full speed, with no protection. Survivable, yes, if you’re lucky, but not quite a controlled landing.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:54:00 +0000

These wingsuits allow skydivers and BASE jumpers to fall much slower than terminal; in this video, the average vertical rate of descent was only 33 MPH! Pretty incredible, huh? They’ll be landing wingsuits without the need for a canopy in no time.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:58:00 +0000

Someone PLEASE explain to me how someone with a wingsuit, falling/gliding at what I assume is near terminal velocity, can seemingly defy gravity and support someone under canopy. Not understanding is literally driving me insane.