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If you mean a wingsuit that can let you fly all the way to the ground at a speed low enough to land and survive -- then no one ever will. A wing that's big eno
by Wingman4l7 13y ago
If you mean a wingsuit that can let you fly all the way to the ground at a speed low enough to land and survive -- then no one ever will. A wing that's big enough to have those low speeds will tear off your arms.
Popular Science had an article in 2003 examining wingsuits and the futile effort towards using them to land without a parachute, and they had a great diagram illustrating the problem: http://web.archive.org/web/20030623234930/http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviation/article/0,12543,459355-3,00.html http://web.archive.org/web/20030623234930/http://www.popsci....
- aptwebapps 13y agoYes, GP said: "Just because something similar has been tried before doesn't mean the basics are wrong." In this case the basis is very wrong.
- alemhnan 13y agoand yet they (somehow) managed to do that anyway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRB-woVjlFY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRB-woVjlFY
- Wingman4l7 13y ago> using a specially adapted wing suit before landing on a "runway" of 18,000 cardboard boxes. I think most people would agree with me when I say that doesn't really count. =P