Skydiving into a runway of boxes...why not

Jeb Corliss is amazed. That alone makes me amazed! Yes this is awesome, I bet they say 'historic' in the field of wingsuit flying.
 
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I think that's a useful skill to have if you ever have to egress an airplane without a parachute. Particularly over water.
 
I find it interesting/amusing/slightly twisted that eveyone's cheering before they even know if his head's still attached :rolleyes:
 
Sac Arrow said:
I think that's a useful skill to have if you ever have to egress an airplane without a parachute. Particularly over water.
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I'd agree if I wore a wingsuit when I went flying. The landing looked good but I bet it was still over 20g.
 
From the looks of things, if I had one of those suits I'd be looking to create a set of inflating 'leading edge slats' on the arms to increase the flare effectiveness. I always wanted a wing suit since the first time I jumped. Jumping and falling to me was boring and expensive, but I loved flying the chute and would pop at 11,000 and see how long I could stay aloft in a sport chute. The suits always seemed the way to go for sheer flying fun.
 
Henning said:
I'd agree if I wore a wingsuit when I went flying. The landing looked good but I bet it was still over 20g.
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I'm sure it's doable as a water landing. Possibly survivable on a hard surface, depending on the terrain. Probably not without major injury.
 
Sac Arrow said:
I'm sure it's doable as a water landing. Possibly survivable on a hard surface, depending on the terrain. Probably not without major injury.
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Survivability is not really in question since people have fallen out of aircraft at altitude with no chute before and survived.:eek: It's just an issue of percentages.;)

Water is a strange surface to contact at speed as the properties and results of entry can vary greatly with angle; much like bringing in a vehicle from space, you have a window of angle you have to make and the structural dynamics of the craft have to be compatible with the interface.
There is also the difference in the dynamics of the water itself. Flat glassy water will provide a wholly different interface than waves of even ripples.

A "hard' surface may actually be safer than water given a sufficiently low friction surface. If I had to choose an unprepared landing sight I would probably select a nice dense field of soybeans.
 
Glad to see they finally figured out the chuteless landing. For a while I worried the concept was approaching vaporware status.
 
LOL, Jeb Corliss broke his legs pretty bad, I think this guy saw an opportunity to hurry up and make this happen. Jeb was planning to be the first one, except he wanted to build a huge (likely multi-million $) ramp. This guy did it with cardboard boxes. Ballsy.

This event is a pretty big deal in the world of wing suiting. It's a feat that's been discussed for years. Wingsuit technology has come a very long way in the last five years, and they've gotten so efficient that they're even starting to fly them in formation with people under highly-wing-loaded parachutes.

Cool stuff.
 
If he can do it from 2500 he can try from any height.

Does this mean we'll soon see rows of boxes lined up at the end of canyons, mountains, and other favorite wing suiting spots?
 
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