insane video

BTW - if you guys want to keep these vids on your pc for viewing, install YouTube Downloader. It pulls the video in the highest quality and saves it to your computer.
 
the glider was eerie. I don't know why I expected it be louder. Very cool. thanks for posting.

I have to tell you jumping off that underwater cliff freedive was sick. Holy shit that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.



edit: oh yeah Tim I didn't know you could do that. VEry cool. I'll have to check into it. Thanks
 
troybilt said:
the glider was eerie. I don't know why I expected it be louder.
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It all depends on how well you seal the plane when you rig it. We usually use white electrical tape to bridge the joints where the wings meet the fuselage. If there's even a 1/4" overlap or a corner sticking up into the airflow it'll cause whistling or buzzing. A guy flying a new discuss 2 like that though is a pretty slippery customer.


To give you an idea, it's not quite so serene in the cockpit:
Glider High Speed Pass - Cockpit view
 
Dude...this is awesome. I say this is the adrenalin junkie thread right here - everyone post up what you got!

And yeah gliders are champion, flew one when I was back in Scouts. Didn't get a tow up to altitude though, we just had an old V8 out of a GM or a Ford and it spooled in the cable attached to the front of the glider. Best lauch ever haha, freaks you out something crazy the first time!

Cheers - boingk
 
Dakine, that is one of the coolest videos I have ever seen, so awesome. Do you know if his suit is weighted? How does he fall effortlessly like that? I'd chalk it up to letting his lungs out but he expells so much air at the end. Both me and my Dad sink for some reason no matter how much air we hold in our lungs, no one has ever explained why to me, just curious. Thanks for the vid!

bob.
 
Red bull is one of the sickest companies out there. I hate the drink but I give them major props for how far they push sports to the unreal. That wing suit in the first video there is an entire film edit that is insane wish I could find it. [flash=200,200]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyGmTV0q2kY[/flash]
 
Awesome awesome vids. :eek:

I love the soaring ones. Here's a few snaps from a trip back to NZ. My fathers glider is down there in Omarama. Sorry for the thread jack.

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SquadraCorse said:
Awesome awesome vids. ::)

I love the soaring ones. Here's a few snaps from a trip back to NZ. My fathers glider is down there in Omarama. Sorry for the thread jack.
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Fuck yeah standard cirrus. My dad flew one as his contest plane back in the 80s.

I've got some buddies with the jack to head down to Omarama for a winter vacation every couple years. I'm still trying to find a video I had of the psychos there ridge hopping 5 feet off each other's wingtips and 10 feet off the sheer, 900 foot tall rock face.

I remember a story of a guy down there hopping over a ridge and winding up with an arrestor-hook landing. Turns out the ridge was a shepard's pasture and there was a single wire fence so short you couldn't see it in the tall grass. This guy went over the ridge so low and slow that he caught a 4 foot tall wire fence with his tail wheel and wound up on the ground unhurt.
 
Both me and my Dad sink for some reason no matter how much air we hold in our lungs
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High lean bodyweight proportion. Laymans terms? You don't have much fat on you.

- boingk
 
boingk said:
High lean bodyweight proportion. Laymans terms? You don't have much fat on you.

- boingk
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Fresh water vs salt water can make quite the difference too.
 
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