Human flying squirrels

[Shnabdabber]

Seen the the other thread that had the video of the hike path in Spain and it reminded me of a video a friend sent me. These people are completely sixes and sevens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWF8KV4IW5o

What blows me away is who was the test dummy? Someone had to R&D these suits...

Anyways, check out the Mountain Wingsuit.

[Daradon]

WOW!!!

I want to learn how to do that!

I guess you got to be a pretty good skydiver first...

WOW!!! Something new to add to my 'must do before I die' list.

[Torture]

Seen it before, but cool to see it again. You'd have to be pretty crazy, but man, that would be a blast.

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by Daradon

WOW!!!


WOW!!! Something new to add to my 'must do before I die' list.

Ironically, that's probably a pretty easy one to add to the list, as long as its the one at the very bottom of said list.

Awesome stuff regardless

[arsenal]

R&D would have been done in a wind tunnel but also live trials. You do have a parachute.

[skins]

there was a documentary about this stuff at the Banff film festival.

basically 100% of people who do it get injured and if you do it long enough you will eventually die.