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Why does this, of all things, have to be electric? It's a wing suit. They're basically strap-on death. Their glide ratio is somewhere between a really bad plane
by Toutouxc 6y ago
Why does this, of all things, have to be electric? It's a wing suit. They're basically strap-on death. Their glide ratio is somewhere between a really bad plane and a brick, they're unusable in any shape or form for real transportation. They could've had gone with a jet or even a rocket engine and it wouldn't have made the thing more dangerous or less green or anything.
Don't get me wrong, I love it, but I don't really see what they were seeing when they made this.
- usrusr 6y agoRockets or jets would limit your candidates for a sponsoring contract to Red Bull and Red Bull. If you are making a bit of a career out of BASE and/or wingsuit you are probably tired of them by now, or they are tired of you or both. It's a very small market and surely weird given that the buyer has a monopoly, whatever that means. With electric, apparently BMW becomes another candidate (who seem to be desperately looking for ways to get their name visible in a context that somehow combines "electric" and "exciting").