Wingsuiting
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 9:04 pmEarly tower jumpers formed a borderline activity that was near to hang gliding, to skydiving, to ornithoptering, and to parachuting. As time went forward the dream to fly found clever solutions gelling into hang gliding, parachuting, skydiving, man-powered flight, and wingsuiting. Wingsuiting is the invited topic herein. Almost no one will adopt my stretch that wingsuiting is a type of hang gliding where the tether set of hang is a thousand-fold fabric situation. And since wingsuiting does not have easy ways to land (note the very expensive cardboard-box-pile landing device used for a special-case stunt), then for cultural and political reasons, the topic probably is a better fit to this Free Speech Zone.
Many hang glider pilots seem to easily perk up when observing wingsuiting. Cousin spirits. Foot-launch. Gain speed. Open space in of face. Move this way and that to alter flight path. Hang from some sail stiffened this way and that. But in wingsuiting part of the stiffeners are the boned limbs of the pilot. Come into the landing sequence and ....flare sometimes ... HG sequence one way; wingsuiting flare involves rapid opening of a governable parachute and finishing with a second course of flaring.
Some of the boyhood drawings of wing suiting of hang gliding pioneer Tony Prentice (ARP) will be placed in this topic thread.
Ask questions and present answers. What is the future of wingsuiting? Powered wingsuiting is occurring. Wingsuiting has occurred launched from hang gliders. B.A.S.E. wingsuiting may be traced. When will wingsuiters be launched from long-line kite systems? In future aerotecture, wingsuiting might be a choice for leaving SkyCity. Felix Baumgartner set some keen records for wingsuiting. How will wingsuiting compete with hang gliding or man-powered flight in Moon City? Or Space Torus Ship?
Many hang glider pilots seem to easily perk up when observing wingsuiting. Cousin spirits. Foot-launch. Gain speed. Open space in of face. Move this way and that to alter flight path. Hang from some sail stiffened this way and that. But in wingsuiting part of the stiffeners are the boned limbs of the pilot. Come into the landing sequence and ....flare sometimes ... HG sequence one way; wingsuiting flare involves rapid opening of a governable parachute and finishing with a second course of flaring.
Some of the boyhood drawings of wing suiting of hang gliding pioneer Tony Prentice (ARP) will be placed in this topic thread.
Ask questions and present answers. What is the future of wingsuiting? Powered wingsuiting is occurring. Wingsuiting has occurred launched from hang gliders. B.A.S.E. wingsuiting may be traced. When will wingsuiters be launched from long-line kite systems? In future aerotecture, wingsuiting might be a choice for leaving SkyCity. Felix Baumgartner set some keen records for wingsuiting. How will wingsuiting compete with hang gliding or man-powered flight in Moon City? Or Space Torus Ship?
