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The Soul Flyers claimed a new record for the longest-ever wingsuit flight, covering an incredible 7,5-kilometre horizontal distance in just over three minutes.
The closest a person can possibly come to the sensation of flying is wingsuit flying or wingsuiting.
BMW has created an electric wingsuit that propels the wearer through the sky at up to 300km/h. Nifty, if that’s your vibe.
Bjorn Magne Bryn has performed thousands of jumps in his career, but his latest death-defying stunt was arguably the most extreme.
GoPro recently released a compilation of their top 10 ‘Human Flight moments’, showing daredevils with a high degree of expertise in what they do.
Hiking Lion’s Head in your athleisurewear to snap the perfect Instagram picture is cool, but have you ever tried wingsuit jumping in the Drakensberg?
I think we’re all glad that we’re approaching the end of this year, but over the past (almost) 12 months some peeps have managed to impress.
Most of us are happy to board a plane in the conventional manner, which is to be shuffled along by unhappy flight attendants, but these Frenchmen think outside the box.
As an adrenalin junkie, I would love to do some ‘wingsuiting’ but I would definitely choose to do so with nothing growing out of the ground standing 20ft high
If you haven’t heard of speed flying you’re not alone, and it seems that it isn’t an activity for the faint-hearted either.
Have you ever dreamt of flying through the air like a superhero down the side of a volcano? Of course you have, but no one would attempt such a thing would they?
People who gear up in wingsuits and throw themselves off mountain tops are generally wired a little differently to us. This guy shows how wingsuit guys even have time to have a little fun in the air!
Flying around Mount Fuji in a self-propelled jetpack is one thing – but wearing nothing but some material, and jumping off a cliff is totally different. In fact, after seeing Jeb Corliss’s major wingsuit accident, doing a wingsuit jump is patently insane.
Welcome to Friday. Here’s a guy jumping off the top of a mountain, flying down the slopes with a wing suit, and gliding on to the service of a lake for his landing. The jump took place at Lake Garda in Italy on September 30th 2013. Raphael Dumont, the guy who nailed it, has over 600 flights under his belt.
American wingsuit pilot, Jeb Corliss, performed a death defying stunt this weekend in China’s Zhejiang Province. He jumped out a helicopter and flew through a narrow crevasse in the Langshan Mountain. The stunt was dubbed ‘The Flying Dagger.’
People are flying again. With their clothing. Jokke Summer and Ludovic Woerth jumped into the sky above Rio de Janeiro and soared between two skyscrapers, which were separated by a mere 26 feet. The cloth-pilots performed the flight between the 460 foot-tall Ventura Towers at 05h45 in the morning in an effort to avoid authorities. […]
South Africa’s Julian Boulle was announced as the first winner of the World Wingsuit League (WWL) Grand Prix late last week.
Yesterday, a British man made history by becoming the first person to jump from a helicopter at 2 400ft, without a parachute, and survive.