Closer to Human Flight

negativeblue writes "Dropzone.com has (had) a story about the preparation of a man (Jeb Corliss) who prepares to land a wingsuit without a parachute. If you don't know the current abilities of parachutes, now-a-day, you should do your research. Basically airfoils, they can perform close to an airplane wing (high performance turns and lift)."

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Re:There is a reason

[Golias]

It's also not good for the public image of skydiving when sombody dies like this.

Recreational skydiving probably should not have a good public image.

If you skydive on any kind of regular basis, and you are not a paratrooper training for combat, then you are obviously an idiotic adreneline junkie.

Re:There is a reason

[Golias]

I would say that paratrooper training for combat are much more idiotic adreneline junkies.

I would not describe anybody as idiotic for chosing to trade their personal safety for the opportunity protect our way of life. Heroic, perhaps, but not idiotic.

And what about diving ? Dangerous and not useful.. And leisure airplanes ? And ski, snowboard ? (snow is so dangerous..)

Snow is dangerous? Good heavens, why didn't anybody tell me!? I've been recklessly living in Minnesota all these years!!!

I stand by my statement that regularilly free-falling from great heights on purpose as a means of recreation is completely idiotic. If you want to crap your pants with fear over and over until you eventually get killed, why not just play 1-on-1 Russian Roulette like Christopher Walken in "The Deer Hunter"?