This, in my opinion, is amazing... I will definitely pick this up as a hobby.
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40 years too late.
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It's not the same thing buddy.
Yea, I agree it's not the same thing when you're actually powering it and creating the lift (as opposed to gliding).
Trust me, it is the same thing. Actually, a pedal-powered flight was made across the English Channel back in the '70s.
I just can't imagine gliding off a cliff feeling the same as flapping your arms and feeling yourself be carried upwards... Of course I've tried neither, so I'm probably not one to talk
In all seriousness, this is a cool mechanical engineering feat. I'll absolutely give him that. People have attempted heavier than air flight for thousands of years, with the first success coming from Otto Lilienthal's glider in 1893. Most of the attempts involved trying to copy a bird's flapping wings. In that respect, these guys have succeeded where Leonardo Da Vinci failed.
But you do experience 95% of that in a hang glider. A hang glider is that, minus getting lifted off the ground by flapping your wings, minus burning 300 calories in 90 seconds.
This guy is going to invent the cotton gin next.
Am I the only one who thinks it's fake?
This is why I am so sanguine about things these days. I've gotten excited about too many hoaxes in the past. #neutrinosfasterthanlight
cometryhangglidingnohoax
They've updated the article. Some speculation that it's a hoax. And the video has been taken down.
cometryhangglidingnohoax
Lol, well can we agree that it would have been a really cool thing to try?
http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/humanbirdwings.asp
Sure. Can we agree that hang gliding is 95% of that (flying prone through the air, minus the wing flapping)?
Well, I'll say that it's a matter of opinion. I see your point, but I place higher value on the actual flapping and actually doing it like a bird would, having to use my own strength to fly.
I've done hang gliding, and from that experience and my imagination I think I would enjoy the wing flapping machine much more. Hang gliding still didn't give me that sense of freedom. I still felt like I was inside a machine, like an airplane. Same with tandem skydive.
Stuff that's within ~500 feet of the ground is the interesting stuff. THAT'S when you feel like you're flying. That's what we also see here in this video.
Nope. Almost tried skydiving. A couple really experienced skydivers (including BASE jumping) I know have taken up the sport. They each have their different rushes according to them. There's nothing quite like jumping off the side of the mountain; there's nothing quite like running towards the edge of a cliff one second and being in the air the next. Flying along the ridge is awesome. Executing the landing pattern and doing the final dive is a huge rush too.
The one thing you can't do with a wingsuit, as far as I know, is aerobatics:
You have a lot of control over your glider. The one thing you don't control is yaw- you do control roll and pitch. If you're 2000 feet in the air, you don't have any perspective. There's no trees; they're not going to take you up to cloud level; you pull the bar in, you feel the wind rush, but your mind does not buy the fact that you've just traded 200 feet of altitude for the kinetic energy.
As you get closer to the ground, or if you see other gliders, or sometimes if you are around clouds, you start to get perspective, and you see it better. But yes, google maps scrolling by at 2000 feet is not as much fun as landing a glider from 300 feet.
My first day was on a training hill. You'll see and feel the control over the glider there.
^I have seen them do flips, but that's about all I've seen. Wingsuits are awesome.
I heard about this thing that this guy created that can make man move across the top of the water without sinking, fucking crazy shit...
nasty fear of heights = can't jump off a cliff, but this i could do, I want one where do i buy it?
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