Watching People Skydive in Slow Motion Is Absolutely Mesmerizing

Experience Human Flight from Betty Wants In on Vimeo.

melbourneskydivecentre.com.au/​

Shot on a GoPro

Produced: Betty Wants In
Music: "She is" - Salieri Music Inc

Wingsuit skydivers create incredible 25-person flock

From: http://www.geek.com/

Exploring the Sky - Wingsuit Flying 2011 from Richard Schneider on Vimeo.


Last year we here at Geek.com had a short obsession with wingsuit skydiving.The extreme activity pairs two awesome pastimes–jumping out of planes and wearing multicolored jumpsuits–into one incredible experience. Make sure to go back and check out that video if you want to be amazed by the jumpers’ accuracy and willingness to spit in the face of death.

The wingsuit fliers have continued working on their craft since then. In a recently posted video we can see that production values are up, the fliers are jumping in teams, and making they are even making formations. Jeb Corliss’ video makes this one look downright relaxing, but we still get a glimpse at the awesome control the wingsuits give the divers; their stability in the air is really fantastic.

The video’s maker, Richard Schneider told me the video above was filmed almost entirely with a Contour HD helmet cam. He recommends the Contour HD for its shape which he considers safer, thanks to less possible “snag points” where a parachute or cord could catch while being deployed. (The other popular camera with this sort of activity is the Go Pro.)

Side note: check out the propeller blades at 0:40. Their super fast motion combined with the sensor on the camera makes them look like they were made of rubber. They appear to be flopping sideways as they spin around. It’s probably the least cool thing in the whole video, but I do appreciate how the tech interacts with activities like this one.

From Vimeo: Helmet cam footage from wingsuit flights at the edges of the United States, including California (Lake Elsinore), Florida (Zephyrhills), Nevada (Mesquite), and Puerto Rico (Vega Baja). The last scene was from a vertical formation record organized by Flock University, 25 expert wingsuit fliers exiting from two airplanes.

See more footage of the 25 wingsuit vertical diamond record: vimeo.com/​19552772

Wingsuit Pilots: Justin Shorb, Douglas Spotted Eagle, Matt Santa Maria, Joel Hindman, Joshua Sheppard, Abe Sheppard, James Raimar, Brian Voils, Tim Hedderich, John Kallend, Zach Schroedel, Alex Scheidt, Jason Carter, Kyle O’Donohue, Scott Callantine, Brian Snarr, Andreea Olea, Simon Repton, Ralph Kubicsek, Ben Lowe, Savage Sac, Cate Flies, Rick Hough, Greg Drogaline, Scott Bland, Michael Swearingen, Ryan Maher, Mike Masheff, Nick Wright, Dennis Sattler, Scotty Burns, Jt Valente, Jeff Donohue

Primary footage captured and edited by Richard Schneider, Lake Elsinore parachute deployment scene captured by Douglas Spotted Eagle.

Music: Undenied by Portishead & The Funeral by Band of Horses.

Tandem Parachute Flipping 1800m High (Vid)

from: http://video.mpora.com/



Worldpremier with Tandemparaglider (www.u-turn.de)

A special dream was fullfilled by Pal Takats with his co-pilot Gabor Kezi today: As the first Tandem-Duo in the world, they attempt a real looping with their 31 qm bi-place-parachute in Walensee (Lake of Walen) in Switzerland.

Lake of Walen, Switzerland: The adventure started high in the mountains in approx. 1800 m of altidude, where the fields where green and the surrounding amazing. After take off they were able to do 45 real loopings in a row, flighing straight of the parachute. With that first premier, the test pilots from U-Turn showed, what Aerodynamics never expected, real loopings with parachutes are possible, not only with hard wings.

'Of course, the borders of physics are set, but where excatly we still have to find out,&#xu2;01C says Ernst Strobl, Chef-Developer of U-turn. With a modified Acro-Parachute, Takats, one of the world bests acro-pilots, already did various loopings, called Infinity Tumblings. Since today, also in the double - with Gabor Kezi.

It was really tough. 'Due to longer lines, the way to pass for both pilots was even longer each looping.' Takats explanis. For us it was about 6 G. For the parachute it was even more, up to 12 G, which is a real challange for the material.

Skydivers smash freefall record in Australia

From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

A team of Australian skydivers have broken their national record for the most freefallers in a formation.

Casting a spectacular image several thousand feet up, the 112-strong team smashed their national record for the most number of freefallers in a formation in the skies above Perris Valley, California, on Sunday.

Using precision timing and a well-rehearsed routine, the divers formed a giant circle with spokes circling out from the middle.

Plummeting towards earth at 120mph, they had just 70 seconds to find their partner and get into position to claim the title.

Incredibly the team broke the record three times in one day, after jumping with 105, 109 and finally 112 people.

The largest freefall formation on record was set in February 2004 in Thailand and comprised of 357 jumpers from over 40 countries.

Hold on, where do you think you're going? Skydiver grabs glider's tail fin as they fly 2,100 metres up at 100mph

By Daily Mail Reporter

From http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

A skydiver has pulled off an astonishing stunt by climbing out of a glider's cockpit, crawling along the wing and then somersaulting underneath and stepping onto the wing of a second glider flying below.

Paul Steiner then moves back onto the main fuselage of the second glider while the first glider turns upside down and flies overhead so that he can reach up and hold the tail fin at 100mph, forming a human link between the two aircraft. He then leaps off and parachutes back to the ground.

The spectacular stunt, captured on YouTube, was carried out by the Red Bull skydive team 2,100 metres above the mountains in Styria, Austria. And they look mightily relieved as they returned to their airfield.

SCROLL DOWN TO WATCH THE VIDEO

Austrian skydiver Paul Steiner reaches up to grab the tail fin of the upturned glider which he had been flying in only minutes before

Steiner sits on the wing of the lead glider at 100mph as he waits for the second glider to approach below

Steiner flips over the wing in preparation to jump on to the second glider as it approaches

Steiner sits on the wing of the second glider and lets go of the lead glider 2,100 metres above the mountains in Austria

Wild Skydiving People and Dropped Freefalling Things! » Freestyle FMX ATVs @FMXATVS.com

Click here for this fantastic gallery of Sky Dving:  Wild Skydiving People

The sexiest ad ever made with topless women skydivers (NSFW)

A rough translation using babelfish. This was from an Italian webpage/blog
http://tv.repubblica.it/copertina/paracadutiste-in-topless-lo-spot-piu-sexy/41192?video

A platoon of girls without reggiseno that they launch themselves with a parachute in order to advertise a washing machine. Draft of the discussed Danish publicity about the company of German distribution Fleggaard, a provocative video beginning from trades them gone in single wave on the web 2008.

Now the video returns to make to discuss after that tabloid English more has it to The Sun elect the spot sexy of the history. Exceeding concurrent like Kylie Minogue in spot of Agent Provocateur or the calciatrice that palleggia for Samsung, the girls in red have become a small case of the net studied from the advertising ones of average world.
(of BLESSED PERILLI)

Skydiver survives 6,000ft fall without parachute

James Boole, a skydiver, has spoken of how he fell 6,000ft without opening his parachute and lived.

By John Bingham

The 31-year-old from Tamworth, Staffs, thought that he was going to die after crashing onto the snow-covered mountain in Russia after a filming stunt which went wrong.

But despite suffering multiple injuries, he was rescued and flown home to Britain in a body brace.

Mr Boole, who has one child, now describes himself as "the luckiest man in the world".

The accident happened while he was filming another skydiver performing a jump onto a mountain side for a television documentary.

As he plunged at 100mph, he was meant to open his parachute following a signal from the other man.

But because of a mix-up, he pulled the cord with only a few seconds to spare.

Landing was like being "hit by a speeding truck", he said.

He reportedly broke his back, cracked a rib, chipped several teeth and bruised a lung.

"I was screaming in pain, coughing up blood," he told the Sun.

"I was very worried I had got internal injuries and I might be dying.

"I thought about telling someone my last words."

Mr Boole, a mechanical engineer by training, has been parachuting for 12 years and has completed more than 2,000 jumps.

As an aerial cameraman, his work has been featured on the BBC's Top Gear programme.

Ueli Gegenschatz: Extreme wingsuit jumping

About this talk

Wingsuit jumping is the leading edge of extreme sports -- an exhilarating feat of almost unbelievable daring, where skydivers soar through canyons at over 100MPH. Ueli Gegenschatz talks about how (and why) he does it, and shows jawdropping film.

About Ueli Gegenschatz

Ueli Gegenschatz takes flight just about every way a human can: paragliding, skydiving, BASE jumping (from the Eiffel Tower), and most breathtakingly: by donning a wingsuit and soaring. Full bio and more links

People Skydiving to See Space Shuttle Launch

By Jesus Diaz

People go to Florida to see the space shuttle launch live, but these guys totally own everyone: They fly next to the launch site and jump from the plane in their wingsuits to watch it.

In the video it looks like it's far away, but take into account that those are very wide lenses. Of course, they are out of the airspace exclusion area, but they are quite close. Apparently, from up there the clarity of the launch is amazing.

I so want to do this.