Best watched in high def on a big screen. These guys are insane.

Jeb Corliss " Grinding The Crack" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfph3iNC-k&feature=player_embedded)

(no, not my work)

Andrew

Absolutely amazing and rivetting stuff.


It seems a man in a wingsuit might have about the same glide ratio efficiency as the space shuttle, described by a NASA engineer as approximating that of a falling pair of pliers.

That pull up, ( as much as one could pull up in one of those rigs ) so close to those balloons. -- I would be wanting a nice thick kevlar breastplate and codpiece on front in case I scraped the ground.

Technology, both in flight and in motion imaging is out of this world when I think back to the time of my childhood when this stuff would have been unimaginable, except perhaps in the Buck Rogers storybooks.


I am not too sure how long this man will last doing what he is doing. Somehow, I don't think languishing in aged care is on his agenda.

Wow.

Nothing else to say really.

Just. WOW.

On the flip side, this is this other issue ... BASE Jumping in Switzerland: Village Appalled by Thrill Seekers' Deaths (http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,784896,00.html)

Andrew