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This Is Cool
Topic Started: Jun 7 2006, 07:58 AM (383 Views)
JBryan
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Elite special forces troops being dropped behind enemy lines on covert missions are to ditch their traditional parachutes in favour of strap-on stealth wings.

The lightweight carbon fibre mono-wings will allow them to jump from high altitudes and then glide 120 miles or more before landing - making them almost impossible to spot, as their aircraft can avoid flying anywhere near the target.

The technology was demonstrated in spectacular fashion three years ago when Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner - a pioneer of freefall gliding - famously 'flew' across the English Channel, leaping out of an aircraft 30,000ft above Dover and landing safely near Calais 12 minutes later.

http://www.break.com/index/basejumpfly.html
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Axtremus
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Nice! :thumb:
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Mark
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Wow!

Leonardo would be proud!

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kentcouncil
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Amazing... that wing suit looks far too flimsy to support a glide...
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JBryan
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Actually, the military version is rigid.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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***musical princess***
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:o

So cool.

Why does this remindme of the word 'squirel'? Were we talking about it on here, or is it in a film in reference to one of these suits?

(edit- just remembered, it was on Top Gear. :D )

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DivaDeb
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I WANT ONE!!!
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dolmansaxlil
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I wonder if ACME was involved?

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alright Deb! i would soooo do it.
it behooves me to behold
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Bernard
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I want one too! They could build a jumping off point in Brooklyn and I could fly to work!
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DivaDeb
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Heck Bernard, you could jump in Brooklyn and be in Philadelphia in ten minutes!
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Bernard
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Imagine the effect this could have on our Piano Parties!!! Yes!!!!
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DivaDeb
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oooh...now you're thinking!
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Mikhailoh
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Dayum... I have flying dreams from time to time.. to actually do it.. wow.
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THat is soooo cool.
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George K
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JBryan
Jun 7 2006, 10:58 AM
leaping out of an aircraft 30,000ft above Dover and landing safely near Calais 12 minutes later.

I wonder if:

1) he held his breath
or
2) carried oxygen
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Mikhailoh
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I don't know if he had oxygen , but I bet he held his breath for the first minute or so...
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Mikhailoh
Jun 7 2006, 05:18 PM
Dayum... I have flying dreams from time to time.. to actually do it.. wow.

I haven't had one for years but that was my one recurring dream when I was a kid.
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dolmansaxlil
Jun 7 2006, 01:44 PM
I wonder if ACME was involved?

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George K
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Here's another guy Base Jumping and Gliding
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That looks so odd... but is so cool.
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Air's pretty thin and 30,000 feet for such a small wing area. (Helicopters don't reach 30,000 feet - think the highest rescue on Everest was just under 20,000 feet). First part of the jump must be more freefall than glide - wonder what speed at what height the jumper has to reach to get the contraption gliding?

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#1. You would definitely want to go to the bathroom BEFORE you got into the suit.

#2. I want mine in brown.... just in case I crap my pants during the first minute of freefall.

I'd rather fall into chocolate.
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George K
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A guide to GKSR: Click

"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
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