What is the longest distance flown in a wingsuit?
What is the longest distance flown in a wingsuit?
The greatest horizontal distance flown in a wingsuit is 30.406 km (18.89 miles), and was achieved by Kyle Lobpries (USA) in Davis, California, USA, on 30 May 2016. Kyle’s flight lasted 8 minutes and 27 seconds before he deployed his parachute at 915 metres.
How fast can you fly in a squirrel suit?
The fastest horizontal speed reached in a wingsuit is 396.88 km/h (246.6 mph) and was achieved by Fraser Corsan (UK) over Davis, California, USA on 22 May 2017.
Can you climb in a wingsuit?
Wingsuits can actually climb – but only after building up speed in a dive and then maxing out one’s surface area.
What is wingwingsuit flying?
Wingsuit flying (or as we say in skydiving, wingsuiting), is a discipline of skydiving using a specific jumpsuit with fabric webbed between the legs and each arm, adding surface area to the human body and creating an increase in lift capacity.
How do you fly a wingsuit?
In order to fly a wingsuit, there is a laundry list of requirements to meet before donning the webbed suit – because there are more elements to manage than in a traditional skydive, and well – safety first! For example, you need to earn 200 skydiving jumps (and yepp – WNY Skydiving can teach you all about it in their Wingsuit Academy ).
What is the average wingsuit speed?
The average wingsuit speed is about 100mph, and it increases the glide ratio (or also known as lift versus drag) to 8:1. That means a wingsuiter travels 8 feet forward for every foot they freefall vertically. Mastering the wingsuit glide ratio and wingsuit speed takes practice and precision.
How do a wingsuit’s webbed wings work?
A wingsuit’s webbed design creates an added surface area, affecting lift like the wing of an airplane. This additional surface also increases drag that affects the vertical speed of the flier.
