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Randy
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USA
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 Posted - 11/09/2007 : 14:16:39
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http://www.biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=4262
This one looks doable; but for me, it's too over the top.
Looks like a 'perfected' aero-body suit with chute attached.
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Dave W.
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USA
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 11/09/2007 : 15:29:13 [Permalink]
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Bah! Too complicated. I have it on excellent authority that if you want to fly, all you have to do is "throw yourself at the ground, and miss."
What could be simpler?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/09/2007 : 17:19:22 [Permalink]
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They seem to have perfected the arts of the flying lemur (which neither quite flies nor is quite a lemur), or colugo. Cool stunts, but someone's gonna get killed! Yikes, that's scary!
(I recall seeing a video here where someone strapped on a turbojet engine also.)
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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JohnOAS
SFN Regular
Australia
800 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2007 : 17:36:30 [Permalink]
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I've no doubt that these guys are for real, but a couple of bits of footage looked a little off to me. Does anyone else think that something is a little odd around the 30 second mark?
Of course, the video quality is average at best, so it's probably just me.
Also the fingernail dragging stuff around 1:50 looks like he's only around 1m or so from the wall, I would have thought that turbulence would make that sort of thing (even more ridiculously) dangerous, but I admit the perspective is tricky, and I hereby reserve the right to be flat out wrong.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2007 : 17:58:59 [Permalink]
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John, I get the general impression that the videos imply a lot more horizontal flight than there really was. I don't know if that impression was deliberate, or simply came about naturally.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2007 : 18:29:42 [Permalink]
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| I would bet that there's actually two or three meters of clearance in all those shots, but at 100 MPH it may as well be "fingernail dragging" for all you're going to be able to correct a mistake. The camera angles make things look closer, too. |
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Care to take a jump ....and fly?......
