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Smith Ski Goggles for Wingsuit/Skydiving

One of the most important, and overlooked pieces of wingsuit gear is your eye protection. We have had a whole of questions come in about getting by with sunglasses, safety glasses, or less. Although you can survive without goggles or with just sunglasses, it most definitely will not be comfortable and you will most likely lose your glasses. Smith Optics has been around since 1965 making eyewear…

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maybe i should cry for help maybe i should kill myself blame it on my a.d.d. baby

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4 Wingsuit Essentials

Time to go over the 4 Wingsuit Essential pieces of gear other than the obvious. For the first piece lets take a look at Helmets. Helmets In the case of a sudden head hit or worse, we need to protect ourselves. Helmets for wingsuit and skydiving applications come in 2 designs. The first is the full face skydiving helmet. This option has its obvious pro’s, but has cons as well. First of all, the…

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Wingsuit 101

What is Wingsuit Wingsuiting is discipline in skydiving. Taking what is know as a Wingsuit or Squirrel Suit or even Birdman Suit, wingsuiters are able to decrease their fall rates and increase their horizontal glide. Todays wingsuits have two arm wings and a leg wing. These wings can even be filled with pressurized nylon cells to increase surface area and in turn increase further your glide. With…

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Wingsuit Jumping really that dangerous???

Wingsuit Jumping really that dangerous???

I’m not saying that if you jump out of a plane or off a building with a Wingsuit on your perfectly safe, but the risk actually goes down rather than up. If your not new to the world of wingsuit, you already know that the videos of adrenaline junkies all around the world are quite visually stunning. The thing with that is it makes the dangers and risk factors appear to be much higher. The truth of…

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American Wingsuit professional jumps through China's Tianmen Hole covered by BBC

American Wingsuit professional jumps through China’s Tianmen Hole covered by BBC

Check out the link below to check out video proof of an American Professional Wingsuit diver performing a jump and dive through a hole in a mountain in China’s Hunan region. Pretty unbelievable stuff. http://http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-pacific-15057234/wingsuit-flyer-dives-through-cave Check out Amazon.com for all the best Wingsuit and Skydiving accessories for the best price!!!

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2016 Red Bull Aces Head-to-Head Wingsuit Slalom Racing

2016 Red Bull Aces Head-to-Head Wingsuit Slalom Racing

Red Bull Aces, wingsuit racing at its best. 2016 features a few tweaks to the program from the last couple years, but the question is can a new Champion emerge. The last two installments both ended with Andy Farrington on the top spot on the box. Do any of the young guns have what it takes to fly down the Champ?

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Not sure how to get started flying with wingsuits?? Top 3 books to get you started

Not sure how to get started flying with wingsuits?? Top 3 books to get you started

Top 3 books for wingsuit flying #3 Wingsuits: Squirrel Suits and Base Jumping Primer by Claire Hudson Number 3 on the list is a book by Claire Hudson. We put this on the list because this is a short, straight to the point guide to actually getting you in a suit and flying… and flying fast. Isn’t this what we all want if we are checking this out? If you don’t know how to get there, this book will…

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GoPro of Andy Farrington winning RedBull Aces

GoPro of Andy Farrington winning RedBull Aces

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Superman and is baby!

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Wingsuits Over Palau

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XRW Skydive by Wolfgang Lienbacher

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GIF - Wingsuiters jumping from the top of “Aiguille du midi” for a flight above “glacier des Bossons” in Chamonix Mont-Blanc France © All right reserved - Damien Deschamps

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Daredevils leap off perilous peak in Zhangjiajie

Daredevils in wingsuits made their trial flight on Tuesday off the world renowned Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie in central China’s Hunan Province, in preparation for the 4th World Wingsuit Flight Championships, which will be held from October 16 to 18.

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The Fighting Batmen of World War II,

In the 1920’s and 30’s parachutists began using special wingsuits in conjunction with their parachutes.  Popular when performing aerial stunts, the wingsuits gave the parachutist the ability to control speed and direction of descent. While used in civilian aviation, the possibility of military use was not considered until World War II.  In 1942, with America entering the war, a article entitled “Yankee Ingenuity vs. Hitler” featured in Mechanix Illustrated  magazine first purposed the idea of batwing paratrooper. It was then that idea was seriously considered.   

Thus in August of 1942, the California State Guard commissioned a popular parachutist named Mickey Morgan to test proof of concept.  It was planned that an entire regiment of "Batmen” troopers was to be organized if the concept was found practical.  Unfortunately the idea was never adopted.

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Mum: if your friends jumped off a cliff would you do it too? (X)

@nefowls look at this, it gets stunning! (also if someone knows the op send me the link)