Asgard Project: Outtakes

Out-take from The Asgard Project, an impressively long wingsuit flight from Mont Brento, Italy.

www.posingproductions.com

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FlyLikeBrick - Wingsuit Instruction videos (free)

Posting about some of our own work for a change (copied from dropzone.com):

Its blue skies and warm weather here in Holland, so no better time to sit down in front of a computer and doing some work..

We've been busy updating the FlyLikeBrick Flight manuals to HD for our website and are now hosting them via our (pro) account on Vimeo.

You can now embed the videos where-ever you like, or view them on our website or on the new Wingsuit Instruction channel on Vimeo.

Im currently editing several new Flight Manuals, the next one is sceduled to be on body position at pulltime.
Other subjects we're planning on covering are flatspin and instability recovery (with example footage), high speed exits from tailgate aircraft, advanced backflying and more.

If you have requests, or think you can assist with some nice example footage for the topics currently planned...give a shout via email or PM.

Enjoy!

Wingsuit Opening

A short video showing a wingsuit deployment,

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V3 FlyBy

And more Red Bull pimping, with a cool high speed flyby:

Andy ripping past me as I drink a Red Bull.

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Red Bull Rodeo

A cool video on a Wingsuit Rodeo at Byron Bay

Kirsten drinks a Red Bull in Style

Check it out!

French 2 way flying

Patrick posted a new video on his YouTube account, showing some nice 2 way flying:

With the French touch of wingsuit flying, Pujaut, Avignon, FRANCE

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Wingsuit World Record

Army Strong posted a video on Ben Borgers recent high altitude record, flying a distance of 11,5 Miles in a wingsuit:

In this new video, SSG Ben Borger describes what actions took place on 14 Apr 2010. With the team work of the USAF's 97th Airlift Wing and many others the new record could not be possible. SSG Borger tells of his adventure landing into a unexpected farmers field. Thank you for your continued support of the US Army Parachute Team and the Soldiers of the US Army.

Check it out!

Wingsuit Competition Training

And a video from Elias Gerris:

This is a video of my 27th wingsuit jump (or maybe the 26th or 28th, I don't know for sure) made at dropzone Hoevenen near Antwerp in Belgium, with my teammates Bavo Vleminckx and Bart Vereecken as performers :)

Check it out!

Luigi Cani & Loic Jean-Albert - Docked Wingsuit vs Canopy flight (2004)

The French S-Fly Community website posted a nice picture, showing Loic (in wingsuit) and Luigi Cani (under a 39 sq/fr canopy) in docked freefall together.

Check it out by clicking here

Swiss Go Pro flights (wingsuit skydiving)

And a nice video showing the snowy landscapes of Switzerland:

Wingsuit flight in the Swiss Alps at Reichenbach.

Check it out!

Trace 103 - Babylon Freefly

Showing some amazing productional quality in camera, editing and graphic design, here is the trailer for the new Babylon Freefly DVD Trace 103.

Check it out!

Babylone (wingsuit) Freefly - April 2008

Via our friends over at the S-Fly community, showing some amazing wingsuit flying skills:

The babylon freefly / soulflyers team flying wingsuit in skydive empuriabrava

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Earlier posts from Babylon Freefly:

Babylone Freefly - Wingsuit flying

FlyYourBody Verso - Wingsuit B.A.S.E.

Fred Fugen of Babylone-Freefly posted a nice video, showing some wingsuit BASE jumping.

Check it out!

babylone

Read the map!

A fun wingsuit rodeo, with the passenger guiding the flyer..

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Welcome to Paradize

A short video with a few Wingsuit Shots mixed in:

Track, VR, Wingsuit... 3 jours au paradis à 4000m!

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Lurch, Justin & DSE

DSE has posted a nice writeup on a recent jump experience on his blog together with the video

Check it out!

Wingsuit vs Canopy - relative flying and docks

The RaiseTheSky blog has a few nice writeups and a great set of photos on the recent Wingsuit/Canopy relative flying project we wrote about earlier.
Definately worth checking out!

Check it out here, here and here

A video on the jumps is said to follow, so hopefully more on this cool project soon!

Check it out!

Velocity 84 + wingsuit = ???

High performance canopies and wingsuits

Check it out..?

Great to be home - Wingsuit Base

Some nice snowy tracking and wingsuit jumps:

Wingsuit base griset Norway

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Sfly indy - First Flight

A first flight on one of the new French S-Fly "Indy" instructional/beginner wingsuits.

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New Wingsuit World Record

Army Strong also posted a video on the road to, and results of Ben Borgers record breaking jump.

Check it out!

Worlds Best Man - Ben Borger

The Gilroy Dispatch has a nice article highlighting Ben Borgers recent wingsuit distance record.

In addition to his wing suit, an oxygen mask and several layers of gear, Borger touched down with a smile that didn't leave his face for days.

Check it out here

Previous WWWN articles on Ben Borger and other high altitude records:
Golden Knights Record Promo - here
Altitude Record Attempt - here
Time/Distance Altitude Records - here

Video: Geoffrey Robson remembered

A new YouTube showed up, highlighting one of the jumps Geoffrey made before the fatal jump that cost him his life.
A clear view on the jump attempted is presented in the video.

You can find the YouTube video here

Geoffrey Robson flying a new route from the Groot Drakenstein mountains above Boschendal, near Stellenbosch, South Africa.

The video was recorded on his helmet-mounted video camera.

One week later he tried the same route, but tried to cross the ridge between Devil's Tooth (the peak to the front,right) and the mountain. His calculations were wrong, and he failed to clear the ridge, resulting in his death at the age of 31.

Geoffrey completed his Master's degree at the University of Stellenbosch, and was a PhD student at the ETH in Switzerland, where he conducted research on wingsuit flying.

Here is a recent talk where he describes his research and here and here are two newspaper articles on his impressive life and tragic death

XRW - Wingsuit Canopy Flying

Phill Peggs posted an awesome picture on dropzone.com on some of the wingsuit vs. canopy flying that he and Jeff Nebelkopf are doing with PD factory team member, Jonathan Teagle.

A video is apprearantly also about to make it online, so hopefully a nice update on this one soon!

Check it out here!

Werner FlyBys

Dutch jumper Werner Pauchli posted some nice flybys (from dual perspectives) on his YouTube account.

Check it out!

Flock'n'Dock 6.0 (Montana edition)

Stu has posted a nice video of his flights from Flock'n'Dock 6.0

Check it out!


Flock n' Dock 6.0 - Montana Edition from Stuart Lange on Vimeo.

Wingsuit B.A.S.E. malfunction

A scary hardpull/(almost)no-pull incident video, resulting in a low opening and (luckely) un-eventful landing.

Description from the video credits:

What happened?
The handle of the pilot-chute disappeared inside the legpouch.
Don't know what exactly caused this, but it was defenitly in position on the exit.

Lesson learned... Always make sure that your PC fills out the legpouch so tight, that there is no space for the handle to dissappear.

Check it out!

FlockU: Docked Challenge (update)

Just a note to show that the FlockU 'Docked Challange' currently has a 3 way wedge with two foot-docks as the best entry.



Check out further details by clicking here

So get those suits out, board a plane and fly that 4 way diamond or other configuration that will score you the winning entry!

Click here for competition details

Prodigy in Action at Skydive Hilversum (with music)

Wingsuit coach Werner Pauchli posted a short video on the first few flights he put on his new Student Prodigy2 wingsuit.

Check it out!

Dean Potter freeclimbs and jumps the Eiger

Though not strictly about wingsuiting, it is a nice article about someone who frequently flies in a wingsuit from all sorts of objects. Dean Potter is featured in UK's Daily Mail in a story about him freeclimbing Switserland's Eiger and then jumping off of it using a specially designed lightweight rig & chute.

I find it interesting that he describes having the chute as a kind of backup in case he falls during the climb. I'm having a hard time imagining having a nice stable opening if that were to happen, but I guess it's better than nothing. :)

We've featured Dean Potter before.

Read the Daily Mail article here.

Wingsuit Flying Easter Boogie Castellon 2010

From team FlyByWire:

First Trainingcamp, first time video cutting & we had bad weather so we could do only 11 Jumps. Sit back and enjoy :-D

Check it out!

Wingsuit Flying Easter Boogie Castellon 2010 from FlyByWire TEAM on Vimeo.

More news coverage of Ben Borger

News outlet Gilroy Dispatch wrote an article with some interesting details about Ben Borger's record distance flight on the 14th of April.

You can read it here.

RB Airforce - Wingsuit Demo

From RedBullAirforce.com

Miles, Mike, Sean and I just finished our last day at Eglin AFB. We put on a wing suit performance and were lucky enough to be able to jump out of one of the actual C-47 aircrafts that dropped some of the boys into D-Day.

Balloon Wingsuit Skydive!

A cool Wingsuit Balloon skydive, with some nice trapeze/rapelling action at the start.

Check it out!

Prodigy2 - The Beginning

A first flight in a new Prodigy2 over Austria

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Canopy sucked into wingsuit burble

Here is what happens when combining an 88 sq ft canopy with a large wingsuit. This is one of those videos that will provide an invaluable learning lesson for a long time.

Check out Alex' footage of an entire canopy being sucked into the burble at pull time.

Main canopy sucked into burble of wingsuit from Alx72 on Vimeo.

Jump with very large wingsuit and small high performance canopy (non crossbraced) with short line trim.
Pilot chute pulls canopy out of the bag, pilot chute collapses.
Canopy then gets sucked into the burble of the wingsuit and does not catch air, bounces around on the back of the pilot. Pilot makes body movements, canopy catches air and inflates properly. Landing without any issues. Pilot is a very experienced skydiver, wingsuit flier and base jumper.

Many questions come to mind when watching this.

• How well does a main canopy open after dancing around inside a burble for a while? 
• How much does line length influence the opening?
• Could cutting away leave you with a canopy lingering inside the burble? 
• How well will the reserve open, if of similar small size? 
• And how much altitude will be lost in the process? 

Just a few things worth pondering.
Enjoy the video, and keep it in mind when you consider your canopy choice for wingsuit jumps.

For additional discussion on the topic, also check out the related dropzone.com thread.

V3 - Italy

Maxim Alexandrov jump from Italian high wingsuit exit

Check it out!

Flying with Corey and Gil

And WWWN poster Andreea Olea just uploaded a new video, showing some wingsuit flights over Orange, VA (USA)

Flying with Corey and Gil over Skydive Orange, VA.

High Altitude Wingsuit Jumps - The Records

Wingsuit Records
There have been quite a few distance and time records set in wingsuit flying over the past few years. We here at WWWN figured we would list all record (official and un-official) up to this point, and we will work on keeping this list as up to date as possible. If you have (be it by data, video, or media) verified additions or corrections, shoot us an email.

The jump objective for these jumps often varied from furthest distance flown, to longest freefall time or both.
Pull altitude isnt known for most jumps, but on record attempts (official and un-official) should always be above legal pull altutude of 2500 ft.
And (recommended and most likely) a bit higher to calculate for the effects of fatigue and additional gear used for high altitude loads.

NOTE: Not all attempts have been varified officialy (either by official organisation/Guiness judge checking for validity and/or presenting GPS/Altimeter data/video).

Latest update: Ben Borger set a new distance record

Projecto Alas - Santi Corella, Toni Lopez & Alvaro Bulto - Spain
Wingsuit: Phoenix-Fly - Stealth
Date: Okt 22, 2009
Altitude: 30.000ft
Time: 6:47
Est. fallrate: 45.2 mph
Verified: unknown

Golden Knights - Ben Borger - USA
Wingsuit: Tonysuit X-Bird (?)
Date: April 14, 2010
Altitude (exit): 32,000
Altitude (pull): 3,000 (?)
Distance: 11,5 Miles / 18,5 km
Time: 6:35
Est. Fallrate: 50 mph (?)
Est. Forward speed: 104 mph / 167 kmh (?)
Verified: Guiness (?)

Projecto Alas - Santi Corella, Toni Lopez & Alvaro Bulto - Spain
Wingsuit: Birdman - S3S
Date: June 23, 2005
Altitude: 35.000ft
Distance: 20.448 meters
Time: 6:05
Est. fallrate: 59.7 mph
Verified: unknown

Golden Knights - Ben Borger - USA
Wingsuit: TonySuit - XS
Date: Feb 21, 2009
Altitude: 24,550 ft
Distance: 16.000 meters
Time: 5:40
Est. fallrate: 51 mph
Verified: un-official

Mike Masheff - USA
Wingsuit: Phoenix-Fly - Stealth
Date: April 18, 2009
Altitude: 22,070 ft
Time: 5:28
Est. fallrate: 39.6 mph
Verified: un-official

Shinichi Ito - Japan
Wingsuit: Birdman - S6
Date: Sept 20, 2009
Altitude: 33,470 ft
Time: 5:22
Est. fallrate: 64.5 mph
Verified: un-official

Jarno Cordia - Netherlands
Wingsuit: Phoenix-Fly Stealth(prototype)
Date: April 18, 2009
Altitude: 22,070 ft
Time: 5:18
Est. fallrate: 40.8 mph
Verified: un-official

Fraser Corsan & Andy Ford - UK
Wingsuit: Jii-Wings - GS1
Date: 2007
Altitude: 30.000 ft
Time: 5:04
Est. fallrate: 42.7 mph
Verified: unknown

Adrian Nicholas - UK
Wingsuit: custom/orginal design
Date: March 12, 1999
Altitude: 35,850 ft
Distance: 7.500 meters
Time: 4:55
Est. fallrate: 75.9 mph
Verified: Guinness book of records

Joseph Kittinger - UK
Wingsuit: none (USAF test)
Date: August 16, 1960
Altitude: 102,800 ft
Time: 4:36
Verified: USAF

News coverage of Ben Borger's record flight

Altus Times has a nice article on Ben Borger's record flight.

You can read it here.

Ben Borger sets distance record for wingsuit flight

WWWN reader gkdave pointed us to the Army Golden Knights' official webpage, which has an update on Ben Borgers record flight:

Everything went as planned while in flight, and SSG Borger exited the C-17 at 0749 and landed safely at approximately 0756. He traveled a total of 11.5 miles and now holds the world record for greatest distance traveled while in freefall. SSG Borger was in freefall for 6 minutes 35 seconds, just short of the current world record of 6:48.

Congrats Ben, that's a lot of miles covered!

You can visit the site here: armygoldenknights.posterous.com

Steph Davis: So In Control

Steph Davis has been pushing the limits of climbing for 18 years, cross discipline. She is known for her free ascents of El Capitan, for climbing hard cracks in the Moab desert, for free soloing long and committing routes, and for first ascents in South America, the Karakorum and the Arctic. Steph is also an avid BASE jumper and wingsuit pilot. She has made hundreds of jumps, including combining free soloing with BASE.

Aside from climbing and jumping, Steph loves running, skate skiing, gardening, cooking and writing. She is a prolific blogger and a vocal supporter of veganism, animal welfare and simple living. Steph prefers climbing areas that are good for dogs.

Please check back regularly for additional updates. For videos, photos and more information on Steph, please visit Steph’s blog High Places.

Ashes to ashes for a high flyer

The NewsObserver has posted an interview with Paul C. luter, son of Pete Luter. A longtime wingsuit pilot, who died in a tragic skydiving accident one month ago.

You can read the article here

How to fly a wingsuit

OutdoorClimbingOnline.com has a nice article aimed at non-skydivers, talking about how to get into wingsuit flying.

Check it out here

Base jumper 'collided with a ridge'

www.iol.co.za is also reporting on Geoffrey "Geo" Robson and his fatal accident during a wingsuit BASE jump in South Africa.

You can find one article here and a second article here

Previous Articles on Geoffrey:
Scientific paper on wingsuit aerodynamics - link
Geo Robson's presentation at Zurich.Minds - link

Ben Borger - Distance Record (Update)

And a new Twitter update on yesterdays record attempt by Ben Borger:

Ben is safely back on the ground! Gotta crunch the numbers to get the exact distance

*edit* check out armygoldenknights.posterous.com for updated info *edit*

Wingsuit Flock Briefing Tool released

Fly Like Brick has been helping Tom van Dijck develop a wingsuit formation briefing/debriefing tool for the wingsuit community.

Please read the first post in this thread on dropzone.com for all the info, and if you have any suggestions, please add them to the thread. Your input is very valuable in making this a great tool for the entire community.

Be aware that this is still a BETA version and some things might not work as expected. While only supporting the Windows platform at the moment, we're working on expanding to all operating systems, as well as the web! For the time being, Mac and Linux users can try running the Windows-based version using Mono.

You can download the tool and watch the tutorial video here.

Ben Borger - Distance Record (Twitter Feed)

Some of the recent Twitter updates on the impending record attempt by Ben Borger:

1 hour ago:
Murphy's law got us good! Problem with jet caused mad dash to alternate aircraft. Drop time pushed back to 0750.

1 hour ago:
http://twitpic.com/1fijsw Ben and Arlyn started prebreathing at 0600



3 hour ago:
4am here in Oklahoma and we can see stars!
Looking good so far for the record attempt.

Tony Wingsuits new website is up

Wingsuit manufacturer Tonysuits has just launched a new website that showcases their current line of wingsuit products.
Check it out at http://www.tonywingsuits.com/

World Record Countdown

The Golden Knights website has a nice article on the preperations for the impending record attempt, at the longest wingsuit flight (distance).

You can find the article here

Previous WWWN articles on Ben Borger and other high altitude records:
Golden Knights Record Promo - here
Altitude Record Attempt - here
Time/Distance Altitude Records - here

Geo Robson's presentation at Zurich.Minds

Fellow wingsuiter Benedikt Klees pointed us to a video of a presentation on wingsuit aerodynamics and powered wingsuit flight that Geo Robson gave at a TED-like convention in Zurich, Switserland. Geo sadly passed away a few days ago, as we reported here.

You can watch the video on the Zurich.Minds website here

South African wingsuit BASE accident

2 South African websites report that wingsuiter Geoffrey Robson has sadly had a fatal accident while proximity flying his wingsuit in South Africa.

We've featured Geo before on WWWN, when he published an article on wingsuit aerodynamics, his area of study.

Read the articles here and here.

GoPro Colors

Some testing with the GoPro HD and color grading....

Check it out.

Wingsuit jumps over Leutkirch

A few extracts from wingsuit funjumps over Leutkirch, Germany.

A video by Alex. Check it out!

Wingsuit jumps over Leutkirch from Alx72 on Vimeo.

EXTREME Big Curry

Big Curry goes extreme thanks to Major Alastair Macartney and Jump4Heroes.

What does everyone want to eat as soon as they have BASE jumped off a massive mountain in Switzerland? A curry of course!

Get involved in Big Curry! Send in your videos to challenge@soldierscharity.org (IF you can do better)

Big Curry isn't just about extreme sports. It is about raising money for soldiers and their families who do so much for us, in extreme circumstances. Get involved and help!
Visit www.bigcurry.org

Check it out!

Wingsuit FlyBy - pt2

And a short video, on Elias following out a group for a planned flyby.
Showing him doing a nice setup, and passing behind the tandem at a safe distance away from other jumpers. After opening (with a few twists) a second impromptu flyby on Elias himself (Note: FlyBy at 5:35 minutes into the video)

Jumpers are Bart Vereecken, Jarno Cordia and me in wingsuits. Bavo Vleminckx as TI and Martijn Zandvliet as passeneger.

Check it out

Wingsuit Flyby (Tandem)

A nice (planned) flyby at safe distance, showing the reaction of the Tandem passenger.

Check it out!

First Firebird-R flights

Old footage from the first few flights on my Firebird R wingsuit. I had been on a demo Firebird R a couple times before this. I thought it was pretty comical how unstable I was, especially that I can't seem to stop banking. I have noticed I do it a lot in my ws--even today. I am obsessed with banking. This is my wingsuit. There are many like it, but this one is MINE. My wingsuit is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life...

Check it out!

FFC, Lodi

kook, "that guy" making a wingsuit skydive at Lodi USA

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Coupe Icare 2009

S-FLY Team: A formation flight with 9 wingsuit pilots

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Aprendiendo a volar con mi Vampire 2

Some of the flights that i did jumping with my Vampire 2 wing suit from the Monte Brento in Italy. I got to make my big dream true arriving in the main landing area flying this wing suit. It looked me impossible some years ago.

Check it out!

Frenchies @ Lodi

And two new day videos from the S-Fly crew currently in the USA showed up online!

Check it out!

Eastern boogie wingsuit days 3

And more video from Eloy, where Zun is carving up the skies with people such as Steph Davis, Scott Campos, Gert Michels and many, many more..

Looks like they are having a great time,

Check it out!

RedBull AirForce - Living the dream

Photo by Christian Pondella

Jon DeVore posted a news item on the Red Bull AirForce website, with some really nice pictures taken during wingsuit BASE jumps made for the 3D movie 'human flight'

Check it out here

Roadtrip

From Eburga through Europe by car. Jumps in Italy, Switzerland and France

Check it out!

First BASE

And a first wingsuit BASEjump, flying a PF Acro

Check it out!

Planet Groundrush: Ready to go In

A video shot by a wingsuit pilot, most likely sporting a brown stain on the tail deflector/ass of the suit.

Check it out...

Eloy - S-Fly skillscamp

Some day videos from the S-Fly skillscamp organized at Eloy showed up online.

Check it out!

Jim Star: Jumps on Brento 03-10

Jim Star updated his YouTube account with a new video, showing us some of the French rock-skimming techniques.

Check it out!

It's back and then jumps to the first stones for most of us this year. I speak good breaks stones and not without some jumps sliders down made during the winter. Looks like this year we did a lot this winter break.

Mount Brento in Italy is the perfect place to start learning to his departure negative, the height of verticality and its field of operation. This place well known of small word of basejumpers is the ideal place to grow in wingsuit in good conditions. It seems we've all gotten to the goal we set ourselves.

Mount Brento is a difficult place with regard to weather and upper air, always a gamble as displacement. Last year at this same period there was still much snow on the path to the exit. This year we have been very lucky and we could jump all day and the wind was rarely an obstacle.

The patrol of good days ahead, strongly future flights ...

Atlas Wingsuit Boogie - The Video

A short trailer montage for the Atlast WingSuit Boogie 2010, with original music by Kurt Cobain (with modifications).

Check it out!

My first wingsuit jumps - Take 2

My first 4 wingsuit jumps - editied and filmed by my husband

Check it out!

Valery Rosov - wingsuit demo

A paraglider demo, by Russian Extreme Sports Athlete, Valery Rosov

Check it out!

Golden Knights - Ben Borger - Wingsuit Promo

On April 14 2010, at Altus AFB Ok, SSG Ben Borger will attempt a new distance world record flying a wingsuit. He will exit a C17 from an altitude of 32,000 feet and fly with his wingsuit to set a new world record. Follow the action on this jump at armygoldenknights.com where the results will be posted.

Check it out!

S-Fly Community: Wingsuit Freestyle with Zun & Loic

photo by Julian Boulle

The S-Fly Community posted some nice older pictures of Loic Jean-Albert and Zun doing some freestyle wingsuit flying. Loic sadly retired from skydiving and BASE jumping after a speedriding accident a few years back. But his flying skills still pose a strong challange to those who are still flying.


Check out the full series of photos here

FFC - 3 videos

A series of short videos chronicle a first flight course

training


walking


landing

Jokke Sommer - The Tabasco Line: Wingsuit proximity down Eiger west ridge

Flying trough the small Tabasco crack on The Eiger. Its a bit tight when you come around the corner, but still enough space. Doable from the high Eiger exitpoint!

Check it out!

1st wingsuit flight with Alistair

Not sure if its a First Flight Course, or first 2 way. But regardless...check it out!

Wingsuit Rodeo

Check it out!

Interview with Robert Pecnik

ProBASE TV posted an interview with Robert Pecnik on Vimeo. 

Interview with Robert Pecnik from Phoenix-Fly Innovations. Robert Pecnik is the founder of Phoenix-Fly and the designer of the first commercial wingsuit and co-founder of BirdMan International, Inc. Robert started his skydiving career in Zagreb, Croatia in 1982. Find more informations about Robert or Phoenix-Fly: www.phoenix-fly.com 

Check it out!

first wingsuit flight

Laurent Victor posted a first flight video on his Vimeo account.

Check it out!