Wingsuits, going up. For more info, visit www.squirrel.ws A note on altitude gain measurements: Calculations are estimates based on multiple camera angles and, in some cases, GPS track logs.
As A new wingsuiter that's getting jumps in the intermediate suit range and is lacking confidence while flocking and back flying and flaring, this is super inspiring to watch! Y'all are gods and fucking rad! Thanks for paving the way!
Depends largely on the surface you're landing on. Highly risky though as controlling vertical speed is not about instinct only. It is largely research and practice. Kinda like landing a plane without the help of the instruments guages. More harder cause there ain't no flaps neither a landing gear.
Here's one: if there were a pond on the other side of canyon, could time it just right where after apex free fall into pond with minimum momentum, no chute needed. Seems possible to do this where a parachute isn't needed.
Anyone know roughly what the minimum forward speed is at the top of the altitude gain is? I'm thinking about the feasibility of flaring up out of the canyon to land (without parachute) somehow on the rim. Of course, straight skydiving into a giant net has been done, and so has wingsuit "crash landing" into a big pile of cardboard boxes. But does this level of flaring make landing into a giant inflatable stunt mat possible, for example? Sounds f***ing crazy, I know, but then so does landing in cardboard boxes! If it's possible, sooner or later some crazy mf will give it a shot...
My rough guess (I have over 1000 wingsuit flights both in BASE and skydiving) is that at the apex of their flare, their forward speed is still probably between 40-60 mph. We can measure our horizontal and vertical speeds using a Flysight GPS, and often do to gain a better understanding of our flight metrics, so we do regularly measure such things. The difference here is that usually we don't hold the flare so long because once you hit the stall point, weird things can start happening and it can also create an unstable parachute opening sequence.
What would be awesome, I don't think you did not think about something like this, is to grap some (long) rope ladder fixed under a balloon... Or why not landing over a net stretched at the top of a canyon... it could be under it, coming from below, rising vertically then grap the net with your hands and feet. Real Batman.. Anyway that feeling to stand still for a point moment in the air, no move no sound, this must be ecstatic 😊
How close to zero vertical and lateral speed can you get to at the end of a flare? The only figures I can find on the best suit is a 3:1 glide ratio and minimum vertical speed of 40kph. But that still means 100-120kph lateral velocity -- too fast for a water landing. I've seen the wingsuit stunt landing on boxes instead of pulling the chute, but could you, in an emergency, do a low-level flare over a body of water and flare to a safe falling height into the water (using an inflatable life vest, just in case you take on too much water). Would there be any useful ground effect at that speed and weight?
is possible to do an "air brake" mid flare, by changing the body's angle to mitigate lift and forward motion, by maximizing drag? ie : rise to a flare, to drop forward speed, but continue changing body angle leaning more backwards to maximize drag as to mitigate as much lift and forward speed, as much as possible, before it stalls and you fall diagonally 3 meters from the ground and do a roll landing.
No. As you dont have backwards momentum. You ll always glide forward, however minimal it may be, is enough to break your legs. Maybe if they land in a net or something
@@Lellena94 > you don't have backwards momentum you mean drag? vertical fall + drag = terminal velocity however, lateral motion isn't accelerated by gravity. that's why drag racing parachutes work.
@@nowherefool5869 i meant , despite your flare, at the apex of the flare, you d still have forward speed. Thus you d land and roll, and i doubt the ankles would survive that.
@@Lellena94 hmm.. assuming that the apex is around 9 meters above ground, how much lateral drag can the surface area of a wingsuit get? iirc, drag racing parachutes are much smaller compared to skydiving parachutes. a fall from 6-9 meters apex is most likely survivable (many parkour enthusiasts can jump down from that easy), if the lateral drag can drop your speed to around 40kph before you do a rolling landing (survivable speed jumping from a moving vehicle), i think there's a slim chance to walk away from that. especially if your parachutes failed and there's no net and this was your only option.
I appreciate how you're thinking about this. Yes, you can use your body as an air brake. A flare usually is a form of airbraking. For a maximally efficient flare, you need to keep your Angle of Attack as close to 0 as possible (slightly higher than 0) and at a constant throughout the duration of the flare. However, you can also do less efficient flares where you deliberately increase your AoA in order to decrease your horizontal speed (which we do usually before deploying the parachute, because deploying at full speed hurts and can cause damage to the gear or result in less than ideal parachute deployment). In that scenario, you are using your chest, head, shoulders, thighs, etc as an airbrake. So yes, you can adjust your body position relative to the relative wind in order to add more parasitic drag and decrease horizontal speed. However, you are still going way too fast to do what you're thinking about (like landing without a parachute and rolling it out).
Once you flare, the flying is done right? You stall out correct? I'm just asking, if you can go back into a horizontal descent after stalling like that.
depends how long you hold the flare for, but in this video, yes they are reaching a stall point because they are deliberately holding the flare as long as they can to see how much altitude gain is possible. In a skydive with more altitude, you could flare, stall, and then use gravity to fall long enough to regain flight (and start creating lift again) and then it's just another flight. But in this video, since they are already flying and pulling low, they wouldn't have enough altitude to do that safely.
They are flying their bodies with some extra fabric, without any source of thrust, and they are able to fly these wingsuits so efficiently that they actually can create enough lift to generate a couple hundred feet of altitude gain. For a long time, that was thought impossible, but these days wingsuit technology and our understanding/skill of flying means we can now flare so efficiently that we can gain altitude, despite having no source of thrust (just using gravity).
If and when these get implemented into the military I can almost guarantee you that : *”COINCIDENTALLY” A Whole Bunch of Them Turned Up Missing !* By missing I mean in the foreign post system in some random country being sent back to their address at home ! Lol !
