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Wingsuit flying (or wingsuiting) is the sport of skydiving using a webbing-sleeved jumpsuit called a wingsuit to add webbed area to the diver's body and generate increased lift, which allows extended air time by gliding flight rather than just free falling.
Fatalities from wingsuit flying have occurred almost from the inception of the sport. Listed below are notable examples where wingsuit pilots were publicly named in the press, including when wingsuit practice was not the first cause of death. This incomplete list is frequently updated to include new information. Date Name Age Location Details 4 February 1912 Franz Reichelt 33 France The ...
This is a list of the fastest flying birds in the world. A bird's velocity is necessarily variable; a hunting bird will reach much greater speeds while diving to catch prey than when flying horizontally.
A subject of Walt Disney’s imagination for the Sleeping Beauty castle, Germany’s Neuschwanstein Castle is a go-to tourist destination for around 1.4 million people per year.
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Escape speed from Earth by NASA New Horizons spacecraft—Fastest escape velocity. 17,000: 61,000: 38,000 0.00006: The approximate speed of the Voyager 1 probe relative to the Sun, when it exited the Solar System. [25] 29,800: 107,280: 66,700 0.00010: Speed of the Earth in orbit around the Sun. 47,800: 172,100: 106,900 0.00016
The post World’s First Electric Wingsuit Diver Hits 186 MPH Top Speed appeared first on Nerdist. Somebody has performed the first-ever wingsuit dive with an electric wingsuit, achieving a top ...
Shin Ito (伊藤 慎一, Itō Shin'ichi) (born December 1964 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese wingsuit pilot and skydiver who in 2012 held the world records for "Greatest horizontal distance flown in a wingsuit" 26.9 km (16.71 miles), [1] "Greatest absolute distance flown in a wingsuit" 28.707 km (17.83 miles) above California, USA on 26 May 2012, [2] and "Fastest speed reached in a wingsuit of ...