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A site called “Awesomeology” would not be complete without this video on it. Look how close these guys come to smacking into the ground at about a hundred miles per hour.
Wow. Just wow. If I ever get diagnosed with some sort of incurable disease and the doctors give me just about a week or so to live…PLEASE someone remind me to try this:
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Are you kidding me? That is INSANE! – Way Cool.
Holy….That’s definitely the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. Where is this place?
I wish I knew…
Dang… That is… beyond words! I wanna basejump! Well, I would if I didn’t have an irrational fear of heights. I would regurgitate my stomach lining if I did that.
That looks amazingly fun. I need to try that.
holy fawk, thats the coolest thing ive seen….ever.
mary f**king mother of christ! Has to be one of the most seriously brilliant feats of human endevour I’ve ever seen…. who needs Holywood’s digital b**tardisation of the truth when you’ve got guys like this?!!?
I was told it’s Chamonaix in France, btw – can anyone confirm this?
I did some Googling (especially Google Images), and I’d say that Chamonix is the likely location of this video. If anybody knows for sure, let us know!
True adrenalin sports. Love it!
i just flew in, and boy are my arms tired!
…at least you would die while living.
this footage is from trollstigen in Norway. translation: troll ladder:) drove up there several times during my summer vacation. google it too find more pics and vids.
these guys are insane:)
Wow. I’m impressed that in my brief span of life, I actually think I know someone who might seriously think about trying this. I’ll keep you posted….
hi, this is awesome!
by the way, someone know the name of the music that is on the video?
marius – thanks for answering that question for all of us!
These guys are pussies! We do this on fire, at night, and with scorpions in our underwear.
That was amazing. I so wanna try that out! Must be an awesome feeling gliding through the air like that.
You can thank flying squirrels for base jumping!
its from the ski movie seven sunny days… i own it, i think its probably the coolest part of the whole movie
I think this is faked. No one can have that
much control to glide inches away from a road switchback while holding their arms out in a flying squirrel suit, even if they were crazy enough to do it. Also look at the start jump, backwards and in perfect synchronization. Looks like digital artwork to me.
Um, yeah you can. They use thermal vortex’s to give them enough power and air to glide. Just like large sea birds. Or large land birds.
Olypmpic divers jump backwards and in perfect syncronization, albeit without the gliding afterwards. I dont see how syncronization can make this a fake video.
Plus there have documentries about this kind of stuff on extreme sports channels and the national geographic channel.
news.nationalgeographic.com/…/21240738.html
Its not fake.
are they actually airborne at any time or just falling at all times ?
Hey, These guys are flying in squirrel suits. The squirrel suit is just a low performing hang glider — looks like 1:1 glide, or perhaps 2:1, so they are descending at 30-50 mph while moving forward at ~75-100 mph.
But why not do this with more performance and control? If you are in even the simplest hangglider, you leap off the cliff and fly under total control, skimming next to the cliffs at up to 80mph — but you can also slow down to 20 mph, and go up in the updraft, and fly around all day, instead of just for a couple of minutes. And you can land on your feet, you don’t thave to throw a parachute! http://www.ushpa.aero
Thermal vortexes?!! Yeah, right. Hang gliders and paragliders have about the minimum performance level you need to use thermals: sink rates of 200 feet per minute or less; glide ratios of 8:1 or better (they move forward at lest 10 feet for every foot they descend).
The wing suits fall all the time, at a minimum of downward velocity of about 40 mph. The maximum thermal climb rates are typically 15 mph (1500 fpm), although very rare thermals may be up to 30 mph (3000 fpm). The wing suits have a max glide ratio of about 2:1. They move forward 2 feet for every foot they descend.
http://www.phoenix-fly.com/products/products.htm
people can fly
lol at above comment. BOOYAH!
Holy crap!
Better them than me…
I wanna do that!
“Got a bit boring” he said. Wow thats something that will give me the shits, but would be awsome to have tha balls to do it.
That is so awesome.
Man’s ever continuing quest to fly like the birds. I wonder if the Wright brothers ever tried anything like this?
I am amazed, and they really do look like flying squirrels!
That’s god damn amazing. I wish I had the guts to do that, ’cause it looks like so much fun!
And why does every god damn video with something amazing like this HAVE to have someone stating it’s fake? Or even the blindingly obvious fake… It’s really annoying. >:(
I just wonder though, who volunteered to try these suits out for the first time? These guys are brave but using the suit for the first time not knowing if it’ll work or not..PRICELESS!
DOES ANYBODY KNOW THE NAME OF THE SONG PLAYING???
They are called wingsuits and grew out of skydiving into the base community not squirlsuits.
That was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen….especially the backwards flip. Somebody, PLEASE post the name of that song!!!
anyone know the name of the song?
ANYONE KNOW THE NAME OF THE SONG?????
If you look through the comments, people have been asking that for the last 2 weeks. I guess no one knows…
if I want to kill myself I'll use a glock 45.
The song is “Under Man” by Sackcloth Fashion. It is an instrumental version. You can find it at the iTunes store.
You can find some really cool stills of Espen Fadnes, Shane McConkey, JT Holmes and Loic Jean-Albert from an upcoming production at the Matchsticks Productions website. http://mspfilms.com/gallery/950
The name of the song is Under Man (Instrumental) by Sackcloth Fashion. Its on iTunes.
its in Norway
The guy above who said it is a fake wins. Seriously guys open your eyes!
That’s a very cool video, but… In spite of all the comments claiming this is real, there’s no way people can fly like this. Flying squirrel suits? There’s not enough wind resistance there, those guys would smack right into those rocks. Especially near the end of the video, when they show the guy gliding over rocks almost horizontally. His descent rate would soon overtake any horizontal motion and he’d be pizza.
If I’m wrong then I’m going to believe in Santa Claus again, because this is a magical world.
Still very cool looking.
Yikes, I’ve just done more research and it might be real! So where’s fucking Santa Clause been all these years?
I need to find out more, because I just can’t see how this is physically possible.