Well ... a bit of a flying squirrel! The wing follows is a combination which covers the surface of the human body so as to transform the vertical natural fall into horizontal movement.
It is generally practiced by paratroopers looking for thrills , from an airplane or a cliff. With their wings combination, they just have to open their arms to inflate their combination and fly like a bird. They can then travel a long distance before to open their parachute .
Different models are offered on the wingsuit market . They are generally built with durable and non -rigid materials, since it is the human body which acts as a central "bone" during flight . The wingsuit then turns into a kind of body continuity, literally giving it wings . Hence his name!
The more horizontal surface it will be, the more effective it will be. This is where its "webbed" shape comes from between the legs and at the level of the arms.
When our parachutist starts the plane or the cliff, he spreads his arms as well as the legs and the air inflates the membranes of the combination. The wings unfold!
These membranes, supported by the fluid, become semi-rigid and allow the paratrooper not to have to maintain this position by physical force alone, without being blocked in his movements.
He can then direct his flight by moving his whole body, and can play with physics to gain speed and distance against altitude. And yes, to gain distance, you have to lose altitude!
The wingsuits have managed to fly man for real, after years and years of research and improvements carried out by lovers of the impossible who wanted to offer wings to humans.
Today, despite its rarity, this sport offers us breathtaking videos.
The World Record of distance traveled with a wingsuit is 23.1 km. He is held by a Japanese, shin ito , which also holds the speed record on this same flight! The velocity recorded during a point was 363 km/h! Does that breathe?
As we have specified, the wingsuit flight ends when the paratrooper opens his parachute. But recently, and more specifically on May 23, 2012, a British stuntman named Gary Connery (yes yes!) Jumps without parachute to land on 18,000 boxes of boxes arranged on the ground. And for those who wonder, he got out of it safe. By what miracle? We will never know. Because even the greatest professionals are not immune to poor trajectory calculation, a flight too close to the relief and an impact.
Parachutism schools allow you to practice wingsuit 150 jumps in free fall. Volunteers?
