Watch world's first electric wingsuit flight 

I've hoped all my life for this wingsuit kind of flying. Now I'm 87, so I guess it's too late for me. But it's nice to know my grandchildren will be able to fly.

0:53 "I was able to jump higher and higher until it started to hurt and then I had the idea I have to go start skydiving." This guy is hilarious! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Even though I don’t see myself wing suit flying of any sort, it makes me feel wonderful that advancements such as this continually evolve changing the landscape of what can be done.

The evolution of flight keeps expanding

I'm not sure which one is stronger: my will to flight like a bird, or my fear of heights. That must've felt amazing. What an achievement. Congratulations!!

This is one for the history books. I’m serious. How long has flight like this been in man’s imagination?

"It's a bird!" "No, it's a plane!" "Actually, it's Peter."

These dudes that are willing to do these types of things are truly badass.

As someone who has been skydiving, I can only imagine what it must feel like! With new technology comes new inventions! Really awesome!

It's really an amazing flight and a huge milestone of humankind against the gravity by using electric power. Congrats Hr. Salzman!

It makes total sense to have the power unit mounted below the chest. This puts the centerline of thrust below the centerline of drag and naturally causes a pitch up moment under power which is easy to modulate through the thrust control. Pretty cool!

Wow, I'm an aviation enthusiast and I always wanted to become a pilot but to see what Peter has invented with the assistance of BMW is truly remarkable engineering!!! I am a big cheerleader when someone thinks of the impossible making it POSSIBLE! I am very proud of you Peter and your entire team and I look forward towards your next leap in your extreme adventures! So, from one inventor to another Touché my friend! Herzlichen Glückwunsch Peter!

Having dreamed of flying like a bird all my life, I love this, while far too old to try it, tonight I shall dream again .

Those "impellers" are called ducted fans and they've been around since the 60s. Still an amazing design.

I have been skydiving ever since I was 19 and getting to witness such innovation is mind bending. It is not easy to maneuver swiftly in that suit and adding that electric jet can even make turning a little harder as your speed increases hence you get little time to take sharp turns. I don't know how he would manage it but this surely seems incredibly amazing to me.

Incredible technology. Love to see its development. Hope they gather more aviation engineers to make it run longer and better.

Great achievement so far. Pilot must felt like Superman power. Love to see more advanced developments

I love how he went from "falling down from high heights hurts" but then turns around and says let's go skydiving 😂😂😂

WOW! Watching him climb so fast! That was wonderful.

The dream we all had as a kid, thanks for your courage and determination

This ISNT the first elected suit. A guy in Kentucky made a BADASS one a couple of yrs ago that would leave this one sitting still. Why he's not being recognized as having the first is crazy but im sure he has a reason. I guess he didn't think anybody else would come up with one so quickly who knows. I just know I saw the videos 2 yrs ago and it blew me away. I'm sure the videos are still here on RU-vid. If you see those videos you too will be impressed and see how much faster it is then this one.

What a time to be alive😃 amazing!

Can you imagine how excited he was? I'm pretty sure his heart was ecstatic

A stunning video to watch & a big thank to the people who are pushing the limits to what they can do flying wise, keep up the great work and a BIG WELL DONE 👍👍👍

The first step to some kind of free flying suit. Can't wait to see how far this design and product goes. Would be crazy to see a system where the thrusters are built into the wing suit and have the whole suit be more like a vehicle you could wear

I've got one thing to say about this..... Awesome!!! Technology sometimes makes me wish I were younger but only until I look at what Technology has enabled our world to become, then I'm glad to be on the old side of life.

Groundbreaking! Thank you for the inspiration! You are greatly appreciated!

That is absolutely incredible. As a product developer I cant give enough credit to the amount of work it took to get that up and running. astonishing work here and a credit to humanity.

The speed with which technology moves ahead will surely bring higher speeds and more time in the air. It is just amazing how curious people in the world, with dreams and determination, can achieve such great things that not many years previous were considered impossible. Congratulations Salzmann and team. Keep pushing forward.

Love the new innovation. Leads to greater things, longer flying, and more adventure.

Insane! Thanks for sharing, good piece.

Looks great, thanks for sharing your experience. 😊

You forgot to mention that this is the worlds most deadly sport, but still cool

fantastic - I was wondering if anyone would ever improve on the wingsuit design, and I'm glad to see it happening. good choice to improve the handling and making it lighter BEFORE making it more powerful. get the most out of the current design before making it faster.

Absolutely, marvelous and stunning!!

Wonderful stuff! Keep moving forward.

Amazing! The feeling must be incredible to be this close to flying with arms out as we did as kids. Thanks for sharing.

Love the powered wing suit. Well done to Andy on the design and implementation of it.

Serious military application for special forces jumping from safe zones into operational areas. Also if the battery capability could be extended, it would be even more incredible than it already is. Great work!

If it weren't for the whole gravity thing, that looks like it'd be a lot of fun.

Outstanding innovation, design, testing, proven adaptation for wingsuit sport! Bravo for time & effort to add more safety, speed & fun!

Awesome. I would have loved to do this when I was younger. Wow way to go Peter.

Amazing!!!! I loved it when he turned it on, the other regular wingsuiters were just left to the dust and kept on going downards, and he went on a crazy climb!! It seems to me a more rigid wingsuit could improve flight combined with the electric engine.

Absolutely amazing and for someone who's been skydiving, I want to start going again!!!

Wow I’m surprised he can even fly with balls that big

That is really incredible. Those speeds are crazy 180...wow! I fly hang gliders and that speed range is 15-35 mph most days but any type of flying with just you out in the breeze is pretty incredible.

Amazing!! Wow!!! Super congrats! What an incredible feat!!

Very nice !!!...what a rush that must be!

I think EDF "Electric Ducted Fan" is the correct term for that propulsion system not impeller. Very cool! It will be awesome to see it get better in the future! Great work!

Great video, editing and videography. I hope this device gets better, like so many previous aeronautical machines over the decades and centuries. I also hope the pilot doesn't end up a pink mural on a mountain side.

Amazing i hope we see more of it

Amazing accomplishment. It would have been really cool to actually have an unclipped video of the entire flight. :-)

I think it's a very good and useful piece of technology. The applications are endless as it relates to recreation and being productive.

I gotta say, I think this video underplayed this achievement. Since davinci, and likely before, people have dreamed of flying, and this is the closest to unaided flying we've ever gotten, and likely ever will. props to your props, mate.

That is Amazing !!! Thanks for the video

That was a great idea. Congratts

This is incredible ! Way to go Peter. A BIG THANK YOU to BMW for getting involved. Great job guys !

It looks like some of the realest forms of human flight that I've seen, like no huge janky jet pack or something like that but instead just a small light engine that produces a ton of lift on a human wing

It's FANTASTIC. Wish him all the best in it's future development.👍

This would bring me closer to my lifelong dream.

You should have at least mentioned the Jet Wingpack and its creator Yves Rossy out of respect. Yes this is the first electric powered wingsuite but not the first time someone have done this sort of thing.

Impressive technology, would love to see it developed to become more efficient and to be able to provide power for longer than 5 minutes. It is intriguing to see the different designs and concepts people come up with for powered flight.

It's good to hear someone recieved it.

Get back to me when you can fly like that but very slowly. Thanks. Truly amazing accomplishment by this young man.

This is spectacular. Definitely a move in the right direction.

Looks amazing. What a rush that must be!

Amazing and terrifying at the same time

Wow ! An amazing electric battery powered wingsuit that finally makes us fly like birds. Eat your heart out Superman !

Wingsuit flying is awesome, making a wingsuit fly higher, mind blowing!

Oh hey I remember seeing this guy in Just Cause. Glad you're taking a break from all the chaos man

Superman's flying capability was realized! I only dreamed of this at night in my sleep.

That so cool! Making people able to fly!

Such a terrifying sport but pretty amazing!

This is a complete game changer for Wingsuit proximity flying. Hopefully as technology improves, the pilots will start to use it as a safety buffer at the very least. Hopefully this will reduce the amount of casualties from flying too low.

This is getting the most out of your life! It looks much more exhilarating than sky diving and hang gliding. It is ingenious!

I wish stuff like this could last for hours. Imagine asking your friends "Hey do you want to go fly to the beach"?

He's on the right track. More power not only provides more fun but increases the margin of error and flexibility in flight options. Great idea.

If they can design a version to significantly reduce the drag and increase the aerodynamics that would be really cool too

This man decided to use rockets with his elytra. Big brain plays 🧠

Imagine crashing into the mountains, at 185 mph? Simply incredible.

This looks so cool!!! I have no doubt that humans will fly like birds one day in some way or the other. Looks like that's happening right now!! Great work!!!

That's called pushing boundaries of human existence. Respect

Dude looks like the most high-tech flasher the world has ever seen.

Stupendous! I'm not sure I could ever have done something like that even when I was young. I wasn't given to throwing myself off buildings as a teen or anything like that! But that really is an achievement, and beautiful to watch. I expect one has to be supremely fit to do this kind of thing. I imagine there's a market for the invention, albeit a very select one, but still, it's bound to expand the sport, which has been growing steadily for years.

Just imagine how this tech will just get better and better, as battery technology continues to improve ...

We need a PART 2 for this story.... Let's see where they are at 2 years later in development!

Waow. Totally sick ! Would love to try... Bravo

as an engineer I was planning to try and make something like this but I guess they beat me to it. Also just cause 3 and 4 had wingsuits like this, this is straight out of a video game.

people: cars will fly in future Future: people falling from sky

Wow! That would be so much fun!!

...one word...WOW!... this bad boy has got spiritual wings but let's get straight to the physical wings... gotta have one of these in the near future... this guy is a GENIUS to create something for the thrill seekers... good job buddy...OMG let's go shopping, I have to own one...👑😎💫🦅

Wow thats really awesome electric wingsuit.

WOW! I m speech less, that guy has real guts! I could never do anything like. I am in my mid 50's and have never even flown in anything except a roller coaster when I was a kid. I fell off a ladder painting a house about 10 feet up and am permanently disabled.

WOW!!! 🎉 OH my word!!! Been looking for something like this!!! Thank you for sharing!!! More power lighter weight as well!!

Absolutely fantastic!

If you can mount a vector thrust pipe at the feet exit, folding at knees, instead of the chest thrusting drag over legs, one can freely navigate, doing scissors, loops, even rotation by hip, we tried that with a low fuel level flare booster, so electric would be dynamic, longer, perhaps much safer.

what a great video ! I love the whole engineering behind it and the final results are excellent !

I think we will see more of this. I had an idea of using a bike for momentum and then popping out some sort of back mounted glider while you quickly fold the bike up.. There are folding wheels out there which would probably be the biggest hurdle. A back mounted glider that could quickly open and shut would be another. Then how to fold the mid jump. Honestly though....freaking cool. If people can't do that now, they soon will be. Or found something better.

Daredevil. Absolutely. Seems like straight out of a video game

The Jet Pack Suits are not obsolete. When there is longer lasting battery power, the duration of the flight can go from minutes to hours. No heat exhaust etc...