Videos that don't deserve their own thread.

[freefly]

[duste]

Clearly all have testicles made from 1090 Alloy Steel.

[devilfish]

......

[Evman]

There are going to be some horrible deaths from that sport, but jesus it's nuts to watch

[duste]

Didn't get through the whole documentary (up to about the 21min mark), but the use of hemp as a substitute for concrete is VERY interesting.

[KAL SPL]

Freefly : can you give us some idea of the difference in drop rates between free fall and wing suite ?
What sort of speeds and distances can be achieved with these ?

[freefly]

Freefly : can you give us some idea of the difference in drop rates between free fall and wing suite ?
What sort of speeds and distances can be achieved with these ?

No probs, freefall speed is relative to what your trying to achieve.

Falling flat in a boxman position eg going for a tandem skydive or falling on your stomach you are doing around 180km/h vertically give or take body position, weight, what your wearing etc.

A freeflying position head down/feet down you're traveling between 220-300 as an average once again depending on body position, weight, clothing etc. The current speed skydiving record is 502.11 kph

Tracking is what we use to move away from things, ie getting away from each other on a skydive before deploying, flying around skydiving or big wall base jumps without a wingsuit. Doing this were traveling around 100-120km/h vertically and forward speed around the same. Good trackers can achieve 1-1 ratio of vertical to horizontal movement. This is aided with things like tracking suits (pants and jacket that inflate to increase surface area) and can get up to 1-1.5 ratios.

This is me tracking in Norway last year.
https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=422318631512

Wingsuiting glide ratios depend on many things including pilot skill, body position, type of wingsuit etc. I have 3 different wingsuits for different types of flying depending if I'm chasing speed, distance, maneuverability, acrobatics, lift etc.
A good wingsuit pilot in the suits you see in the awesome videos going around achieve glide ratios between 3.0-3.5, so for every meter they fall they move 3-3.5 forward. There vertical speed is around 40-80km/h and the forward speed anywhere between 160-260km/h depending on how there flying.
Usually in the videos you see though they are never maxing the suits out but rather diving them to get close to the objects they are flying next too, that way if they need to get away from the object or adjust their flight path they have some margin there.

[KAL SPL]

Thanks for the explanation

I would imagine that its more about luck than judgement to avoid hitting tress or ground under you where as going along the side of cliffs would be alot safer , if thats possible ...
Do you actually get as close as it looks in vids or is just the way its perceived ?

[freefly]

Thanks for the explanation

I would imagine that its more about luck than judgement to avoid hitting tress or ground under you where as going along the side of cliffs would be alot safer , if thats possible ...
Do you actually get as close as it looks in vids or is just the way its perceived ?

Luck plays no part at all. All of the lines they are flying in the videos they fly many times before starting high and getting lower and closer every time, making sure they know whats going on. Jumps are prepared for weeks with topographic maps gps data etc, there is no margin for error. If your doing something and the smallest mistake means your death wouldn't you want to be sufficiently prepared? Also the guys flying the crazy lines usually have thousands of skydives and 500-2000 wingsuit base jumps.

They get closer than you can see in the video literally inches away from trees and rocks, I've actually seen a video of someone accidently clipping a small branch with his arm.

[adzmerc]

0:17s I reckon the guy on the scooter did this on purpose to sneak a peak...

[HANS YOLO]

big games on today for world cup!!

[Niva]

Luck plays no part at all. All of the lines they are flying in the videos they fly many times before starting high and getting lower and closer every time, making sure they know whats going on. Jumps are prepared for weeks with topographic maps gps data etc, there is no margin for error. If your doing something and the smallest mistake means your death wouldn't you want to be sufficiently prepared? Also the guys flying the crazy lines usually have thousands of skydives and 500-2000 wingsuit base jumps.

They get closer than you can see in the video literally inches away from trees and rocks, I've actually seen a video of someone accidently clipping a small branch with his arm.

links?

[freefly]

links?

[Gleeso]

Didn't get through the whole documentary (up to about the 21min mark), but the use of hemp as a substitute for concrete is VERY interesting.

Agreed, so many benefits. I remeber watching a speech of this dude for a uni class saying that something that reduces carbon, self replicates, creates a home/environment for species to thrust (there were a few more lines to go with it Im just a little hungover) and cutting it down just to write on it made an impact on my view of the use of trees. Everyone is looking for sustainable solutions, well that documentary just mentioned a shit load.

Really informative and well researched it seemed.

[Gleeso]

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[blaize]

that actually looks so horrible. would of preffered the halo movie to have come out.

[Buckets]

And we think some of our cars are quick.

[markdett]

SHAYNAYNAY

[Gleeso]

that actually looks so horrible. would of preffered the halo movie to have come out.

You know its fake right...

[s1mon]

.... would of preffered the halo movie to have come out.

But then we wouldnt have District 9

[duste]

And we think some of our cars are quick.

Little bit misleading - GT frame is closer to the corner so cars would have already begun slowing down, whereas F1 frame is further back so the cars would still be smashing the happy pedal. Couple of the GT cars still looked quite fast in comparison, though.

[esky]

You do realise that f1 cars take that corner flat out?

[Bomber]

Little bit misleading - GT frame is closer to the corner so cars would have already begun slowing down, whereas F1 frame is further back so the cars would still be smashing the happy pedal. Couple of the GT cars still looked quite fast in comparison, though.

[BoXi]

Denzo and the JPC DRIFT TERRORISTS

[maximus]

Right, probably not the way I'd do it...