The wing suit

The wingsuit is, as its name explains, a suit which helps ou to have a horizontal mouvement when you are skydiving. As a result, you can feel like flying and you can control your trajectory.

The innvovation was made by Loic Jean-Albert who made the first wongsuit in 2000.

As you can see on this picture, the skydiver can move his legs and his arms to control drift and drag. Reducing his falling speed, the flier can spend more time in the air. Some of the base jumper really like this suit as they can control their flight which make them able to go really fast and close to some cliffs. You can see an exemple in this next video:

 

 

~ by jaimepicher on June 19, 2008.