The coolest thing I have ever seen!
- Thread starter DQuaN
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that could probably be done for real it would just take nerves of steel and alot of claculations so you now you wont just go straight into the floor
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- BenSpecialized
Reminds me of some flying squirrels (the don't actually fly they glide) i read about back when i was at school. I think its to do with the material between his arms and legs creating more surface area enabling him to glide down that mountain. Although i think that mountain is just there for show, the same thing would happen should you jump out of a plane/helecopter with nothing below you as you would if you were skydiving. With the flaps of material it enables you to descend at a shallower angle in this case allowing him to follow the contour of the mountain.
Was pretty awsome to watch though and the guy must have balls of steel to do it.
Spec...
Was pretty awsome to watch though and the guy must have balls of steel to do it.
Spec...
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- Ealing-London
This is true and wingsuits are nothing new. What this guy is doing is getting so close to the ground that he creates a ground effect. This gives him more lift and enables him to move forward faster than he falls, while allowing him to remain very close to the ground.
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awesome, looks scarying!!
viper
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Thats fantastic, it certainly would take balls of steel to pull a stunt like that off! Nice find DQ!
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- GTP_Mars
Meh, now this is a man with testes of titanium... 
He used to do pretty much the same thing, but without the parachute and two long sticks clamped to his feet
(although he usually landed head-first anyway)
That is pretty cool, though - and managing to control his glide so that he could come so close to the ground, that guy must have some serious nerve control!
He used to do pretty much the same thing, but without the parachute and two long sticks clamped to his feet
(although he usually landed head-first anyway)That is pretty cool, though - and managing to control his glide so that he could come so close to the ground, that guy must have some serious nerve control!
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He's crazy to make it. Frightening, too much for me.
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I don't think there's actually much ground effect in that. I believe he's carefully chosen a slope that closely matches the glide angle he gets with the wingsuit. Once in the slope, he can trade airspeed for glide slope as he needs to.
Ground effect is more pronounced in a lightly loaded wing (think Cessna 150 landing at 80 knots or so,) and I guarantee a skydiver's wingsuit is not lightly loaded.
Ground effect is more pronounced in a lightly loaded wing (think Cessna 150 landing at 80 knots or so,) and I guarantee a skydiver's wingsuit is not lightly loaded.
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- WallRunner51
I want to do both!
Actually I'd never get into the helicopter.
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Chris.
Actually I'd never get into the helicopter.
From,
Chris.
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Danoff
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Just for the record, airfoils work by creating a pressure difference between the air above and the air below. Obviously the air below the airfoil has a greater pressure than the air above, causing a net upward force.
The presence of a surface below the airfoil intereacts with the airflow about the airfoil to cause an increase in pressure below the airfoil - increasing the lift force.
This is why aircraft level off when coming in for landing, and why early aircraft often got airborne for a few seconds only to come crashing back down when they got far enogh off the ground.
When taking off from a runway, it's often advised not to pull back on the yoke until you've reached a certain pre-calculated velocity - the velocity at which you're generating enough lift to rise in the open air (without ground effects). Below this velocity, pullling back on the yoke will cause the aircraft to take off (because of ground effects), but it will lose altitude quickly after you rise far enough and can cause a crash.
The presence of a surface below the airfoil intereacts with the airflow about the airfoil to cause an increase in pressure below the airfoil - increasing the lift force.
This is why aircraft level off when coming in for landing, and why early aircraft often got airborne for a few seconds only to come crashing back down when they got far enogh off the ground.
When taking off from a runway, it's often advised not to pull back on the yoke until you've reached a certain pre-calculated velocity - the velocity at which you're generating enough lift to rise in the open air (without ground effects). Below this velocity, pullling back on the yoke will cause the aircraft to take off (because of ground effects), but it will lose altitude quickly after you rise far enough and can cause a crash.
