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Holy Crap Paraglide Wingsuit!


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This guy's name is Jeb Corliss, and I guess I'll have to look for more stuff from him.

Wingsuits have been around for a while. Special Forces had them many many years ago. This guy flies his down the side of a mountain through a ravine, barely clearing the tops of ridges...

But this guy is maximum awesome. Very advanced skill level, do not try this at home. Hell, don't even think about it, I might fall off my chair watching it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfph3iNC-k

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That guy has huge danglers. I've seen a bunch of stuff on TV about him. He truely has a fuck it attitude and goes full tilt on everything. One documentary I say was when they first started with the wing suits. Him and his best friend did a dual jump above the Royal Gorge bridge in Colorado. Jeb was to go below the bridge and his friend went above. His friend mis-calculated and slammed into the main cable just above the bridge deck. If you have time check out his GF, she is a French super model that is as big of an adrenaline junkie as he is.

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Wouldn't want to be hit by THAT flying squirrel.

That kind of thrill addiction very often leads to an early demise, usually while being filmed by Red Bull heli-cams. Definitely would make for a fast and fun death, I guess....I'll prolly stick to drinkin' beer on the back deck.

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That kind of thrill addiction very often leads to an early demise, usually while being filmed by Red Bull heli-cams. Definitely would make for a fast and fun death, I guess....I'll prolly stick to drinkin' beer on the back deck.

everyone dies. very few can say they actually lived.

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How fast do you think he was going?

The maximum speed for a human body falling in the lower atmosphere is around 120mph. So he might have gotten close to that at some point.

The absolute maximum speed for a human body falling from way up around 100,000-120,000 feet altitude, is a bit over 600mph. The record is 614mph in 1960. There are people who want to break those records.

edit: I recently found out that an aerodynamic object like a arrow shaped smooth bomb can fall at up to 2 1/2 times the speed of sound. If dropped from an extremely high altitude. 2200 mph+.

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Where was it filmed?

Another good question. I only know two places that look like that. A place in the Alps, and down in South Africa.

edit: I guess there is a place in New Zealand that I don't know about.

argh edit: lol, I see he's jumped in Brazil also. Tall mountains there right by the city.

*searching* One website says its the Swiss Alps.

And another says he did 122mph on that flight.

Here's another video of a casual flight through the crack:

And one of best of highlights from flights:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgKiAooWfsU&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bJmVJZbmIk&feature=player_detailpage

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"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." - Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)

edit: Part of that quote was at the start of one of the videos. That's the full quote from the book.

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