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Speed skydiving is a competition discipline within the sport of skydiving. The competition objective is for the competitors to fly their body as fast as possible to achieve the highest average vertical speed through a 3-second window. The speed is measured using a speed measuring device (SMD) worn on the competitor's helmet.
On October 5, 2012, the Swiss Marc Hauser set a first world record in speed tracking, a discipline he founded. [4] The measured ground speed was 304 kilometres per hour (188.9 mph) over the dropzone of Skydive Empuriabrava, Spain. [5] Only a specially adapted skydiving suit was used (no wingsuit, tracking suit, nor additional weights were used ...
Lawrence J. Timmerman Airport (IATA: MWC, ICAO: KMWC, FAA LID: MWC), known locally as Timmerman Field, is an airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, owned by Milwaukee County. Located 5 miles (8 km) northwest of the city center, it is used mainly for general or private aviation . [ 1 ]
The fast landing technique for speed wings, when flying without skis, is similar to that used in parachuting. However, parachuting or skydiving is done from a plane or fixed object (BASE jumping), and the wing is designed to arrest the free fall. Newer designs of hybrid-wings (also called mini-wings) are now being produced to allow a high speed ...
Ground-launching and speed-flying are other forms of canopy piloting. These disciplines differ from swooping in that the canopy pilot flies his canopy in close proximity to the ground, descending a mountainside or other gradient or, in certain conditions, hovering several meters above the ground, much like a paragliding pilot.
Officials are reviewing the last seasonal speed limit in Wisconsin with an eye on ending it. The speed limit lowers 10 mph every summer.
The first human to fly in a vertical wind tunnel was Jack Tiffany in 1964 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base located in Greene and Montgomery County, Ohio.. In 1982 Jean St-Germain, an inventor from Drummondville, Quebec, [2] sold a vertical wind tunnel concept to both Les Thompson and Marvin Kratter, both of whom went on to build their own wind tunnels.
Aviation in Wisconsin refers to the aviation industry of the American Midwestern state of Wisconsin. Wisconsin's first aeronautical event was a flight of a Curtiss aircraft by Arthur Pratt Warner on November 2, 1909, in Beloit .