People Can Fly- Awesome!

Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:05 am » by **Seahawk100**

This has been around for a while, but I'd never heard of it. Freaking awesome. I wanna be like a flying squirrel, too!!! This has got to be great fun. It takes no special equipment, other then a special "wingsuit." Fantastic!!!

Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:13 am » by **Realorfake**

It is way cool Hawk.
One of my best friends from pre-school now does this professionally.
He's jumped literally thousands of times and sends me his vids that he creates.
Pretty awesome stuff.

Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:23 am » by **Mrmcnuggets**

That.

Is fuckin SICK!!

Where can I go and do that???!

Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:41 am » by **Seahawk100**

Hey, rof!

Wow! What an awesome job. It'd be really great if you could share a file or two, here.

Yeah, I'm with you, Mr. M. It is freakin' totally SICK!!!! Just some of the free-style stuff I saw on these, and a few other vids makes me wanna run out and get a suit, jump on a plane to the Grand Canyon, or some other great site, and Ya- feckin'-Whooo!!!!!! It's got to feel incredible soaring around the sky like that. I think that you can- somewhat- control your speed as well. Some of those guys were going over 100mph. Definitely a sport for the big boys.

Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:44 am » by **Mrmcnuggets**

seahawk100 wrote:Hey, rof! Wow! What an awesome job. It'd be really great if you could share a file or two, here.

Yeah, I'm with you, Mr. M. It is freakin' totally SICK!!!! Just some of the free-style stuff I saw on these, and a few other vids makes me wanna run out and get a suit, jump on a plane to the Grand Canyon, or some other great site, and Ya- feckin'-Whooo!!!!!! It's got to feel incredible soaring around the sky like that. I think that you can- somewhat- control your speed as well. Some of those guys were going over 100mph. Definitely a sport for the big boys.

Where do we goooo!? lol.

I am sure though, they will not just let anyone jump out of a heli at high altitudes with a suit that I imagine costs a pretty penny off into the wilderness lol. I must do this in my life time, from Machu Picchu. As that would be an epic way to experience the ruins. :lol:

Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:50 am » by **Aragajag**

A quick look and a couple of grand will get you started.
On the bucket list for sure, probably put that one towards the end.
No big mountains around here though, it would be phewww splat for me.

Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:55 am » by **Mrmcnuggets**

http://www.flylikebrick.com/wingsuit-faq.php

That is it. Everything anyone could ever ask or want to know about wingsuit flying.

The general consideration for the ability to wingsuit fly is 200 jumps skydiving, in some countries there is a minimum of 500.

So I guess I have 199 minimum sky dives to go make.. Ugh... but so worth it..

wwooooossh. :twisted:

batman.

Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:02 am » by **Seahawk100**

mrmcnuggets wrote:
seahawk100 wrote:Hey, rof! Wow! What an awesome job. It'd be really great if you could share a file or two, here.

Yeah, I'm with you, Mr. M. It is freakin' totally SICK!!!! Just some of the free-style stuff I saw on these, and a few other vids makes me wanna run out and get a suit, jump on a plane to the Grand Canyon, or some other great site, and Ya- feckin'-Whooo!!!!!! It's got to feel incredible soaring around the sky like that. I think that you can- somewhat- control your speed as well. Some of those guys were going over 100mph. Definitely a sport for the big boys.

Where do we goooo!? lol.

I am sure though, they will not just let anyone jump out of a heli at high altitudes with a suit that I imagine costs a pretty penny off into the wilderness lol. I must do this in my life time, from Machu Picchu. As that would be an epic way to experience the ruins.

Yeah. I'll say.

Here's a site called Gorilla-Worx. You can buy suits here, and you're right. You have to be trained- like in skydiving- there are trainers and "drop-sites" all over the world, so you can pretty much go where ever you wanna, to do this. Yahoo!

You can buy suits, used or new, from about $250.- $500. and probably on up from there. I guess that for training, they co-ordinate with skydiving instruction- as a basis of training, and then go from there. The cost for that varies as well. Then figure in on-going training for advanced ability, drop site travel, airplane drop charges. O.K., lol, I see how this'll add up pretty quickly. Yeah, for now, it'll have to take a place on my bucket list.

http://www.gorilla-worx.com/index.html

edit: Oh yeah, MrM. Looks like a great site. Some of those suits look pretty fricken' awesome, too. Para-troopers are so last century, now. Imagine 0300 hour drops in coal black wingsuits from 3,000 feet. Whoosh! The idea of doing this makes me feel like a 8 year old on Christmas morning. You know, quick running in place with arms flailing. :lol:

Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:04 am » by **Mrmcnuggets**

seahawk100 wrote:
mrmcnuggets wrote:
seahawk100 wrote:Hey, rof! Wow! What an awesome job. It'd be really great if you could share a file or two, here.

Yeah, I'm with you, Mr. M. It is freakin' totally SICK!!!! Just some of the free-style stuff I saw on these, and a few other vids makes me wanna run out and get a suit, jump on a plane to the Grand Canyon, or some other great site, and Ya- feckin'-Whooo!!!!!! It's got to feel incredible soaring around the sky like that. I think that you can- somewhat- control your speed as well. Some of those guys were going over 100mph. Definitely a sport for the big boys.

Where do we goooo!? lol.

I am sure though, they will not just let anyone jump out of a heli at high altitudes with a suit that I imagine costs a pretty penny off into the wilderness lol. I must do this in my life time, from Machu Picchu. As that would be an epic way to experience the ruins.

Yeah. I'll say.

Here's a site called Gorilla-Worx. You can buy suits here, and you're right. You have to be trained- like in skydiving- there are trainers and "drop-sites" all over the world, so you can pretty much go where ever you wanna, to do this. Yahoo!

You can buy suits, used or new, from about $250.- $500. and probably on up from there. I guess that for training, they co-ordinate with skydiving instruction- as a basis of training, and then go from there. The cost for that varies as well. Then figure in on-going training for advanced ability, drop site travel, airplane drop charges. O.K., lol, I see how this'll add up pretty quickly. Yeah, for now, it'll have to take a place on my bucket list.

http://www.gorilla-worx.com/index.html

Well, for me to go skydiving in Maine, its 200$, so if I need to do a minimum of 200 jumps i'ma have to shell out a minimum of 40 grand lol.

I also would not suggest buying a used suit unless it was from a professional, the slightest tear in that shit could spell out some serious bad news bears. :lol:

Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:14 am » by **Seahawk100**

yeah, I agree. wouldn't wanna risk it. Yikes, that's a lot of money. :cry:

Man, we need to get rich- Quick!!! lol