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Base jumpers wearing wing suits fly inches from the walls of mountains.
More info from ambivalens:
This video is recorded in the north-western part of Norway.
The french basejumper is Jean-Loic Albert, who is arguably the very best wingsuit pilot in the world. This video made when he and a group of american base jumpers visited the norwegian basejumping group VKB (Verdal'n Karsk & Base) to learn about proximity wingsuitflying. The guy in yellow, Espen, is a norwegian from VKB. In that last scene he's flying about a meter and an half over the ground.
More info from ambivalens:
This video is recorded in the north-western part of Norway.
The french basejumper is Jean-Loic Albert, who is arguably the very best wingsuit pilot in the world. This video made when he and a group of american base jumpers visited the norwegian basejumping group VKB (Verdal'n Karsk & Base) to learn about proximity wingsuitflying. The guy in yellow, Espen, is a norwegian from VKB. In that last scene he's flying about a meter and an half over the ground.
Vids like this and the eiger para skiing one, make me have too look for my jaw on the floor.
The french basejumper is Jean-Loic Albert, who is arguably the very best wingsuit pilot in the world. This video made when he and a group of american base jumpers visited the norwegian basejumping group VKB (Verdal'n Karsk & Base) to learn about proximity wingsuitflying. The guy in yellow, Espen, is a norwegian from VKB. In that last scene he's flying about a meter and an half over the ground.
btw *sports
The wingsuit is constructed by having panels underneath the arms and between the legs that fill up with air. When the wingsuit is inflated it performs not too differently from a wing. The pilot can manipulate how the "wing" flies by adjusting his bodyposition. Needless to mention, these guys have bodycontrol that just blows your mind.
You should also pay attention to when they do their exit from the cliff - apart from the summersaults for dramatic effect you can see that they go into pretty much a straight vertical dive. By doing this they build up an amazing amount of speed that they can use to fly flaster. They can use the extra surplus of kinetic energy to quickly adjust their trajectory if needed and thus fly over any obstacles. Greater speed = greater control.
You can find another VKB video right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG6NFCIneTc
This video has been a huge hit in the skydiving/basejumping communities, but somehow it's not as popular with the general population.