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Wingsuit BASE: (1) Exit (2) Flight (3) Deployment (4) Landing. As suit technology and pilot skill have improved, wingsuit BASE jumpers have learned to control their flight so that they can fly within several meters of terrain. “Proximity flying” is the practice of flying a wingsuit close to the faces and ridges of mountains.
Fatalities from wingsuit flying have occurred almost from the inception of the sport. Listed below are notable examples where wingsuit pilots were publicly named in the press, including when wingsuit practice was not the first cause of death. This incomplete list is frequently updated to include new information. Date Name Age Location Details 4 February 1912 Franz Reichelt 33 France The ...
Jari Kuosma (born 3 March 1969 in Helsinki) is the original developer of modern and commercial wingsuit (as a product), wingsuit flying (as a sport) and owner of BirdMan Inc. [1] [2] Kuosma has over 5000 jumps. He has worked as an Accelerated Free Fall (AFF) Instructor in USA, Sweden and Venezuela. [3]
[4] [6] He has invented several acrobatic skydiving moves, the best known of which is The Miracle Man. [1] As of October 2016, he has over 17,000 jumps logged. [5] As a member of the Red Bull Air Force, Provenzano participated in and helped organize a wingsuit flight over Manhattan to promote the 2014 Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach on Long ...
Sommer uses a wingsuit and glides over the Eiger mountains in the Alps, in this video it shows his childhood. It presents him as a young child getting bullied, but soon meeting an old man releasing an eagle to fly. He became inspired by it thinking he could fly just like it.
Dr. Glenn Singleman (born 12 October 1958) is an Australian physician, professional adventurer, wingsuit pilot and BASE jumper (he holds three official world records). He is also a documentary filmmaker, and practicing medical doctor specializing in remote and rural medicine.
His death was regarded as a major loss to the community of wingsuit flying, among whom he was considered to be one of the world's best. [6] [1] Among those to pay tribute to Sutton were Sebastian Coe, Gary Connery, [7] and Danny Boyle who said that his death was a "huge loss to his profession". [1]
Vincent Reffet was a professional parachutist. He completed 17,000 parachute jumps and 1,400 BASE jumps.He began wingsuit flying in 2002. He was a parachute instructor, "Jetman" pilot, licensed private pilot, wind tunnel instructor (totaling 1000 hours), and pioneer and instructor in speed riding. [1]