Ueli Gegenschatz soars in a wingsuit. Translation? THIS GUY FLIES. Ueli has been freefalling his entire life and started first with paragliding. From there he began skydiving, to skydiving with a board, to jumping off cliffs and building, to jumping off moving trucks and hot air balloons. The man has jumped off of everything possible. Then he began to wear a wingsuit, which sort of looks like a jumpsuit with flying squirrel flaps beneath the arms and in between the legs. If Ueli is able to get the right tension in his body he is able to soar through the air, having a forward rate of 110 mph and a falling rate of 45 mph. So he is traveling farther across than he is traveling down. Technically he is not flying, but he is as close to flying as a single human being can be without machinery. He is falling with style.
http://www.ted.com/talks/ueli_gegenschatz_extreme_wingsuit_jumping.html
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