[TomServo]

Stather's friends were waiting on the canyon floor for him to complete his second jump when he never landed...

Uh, he landed alright...

[Celtic Conservative]

Paging mr. Darwin, mr. Darwin please pick up the white courtesy phone...

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[Secret Agent Man]

Wing suits. These are the ones you can build real speed with and actually “fly” around with. More than one person has died doing this. I recall the one where two guys were flying and one hit a bridge. They were aiming to go under it and one made it but the other didn’t.

[DainBramage]

We need more laws of gravity and stop this senseless killing!

[RetiredTexasVet]

Did he have Darwin Insurance .... relatives, friends and acquaintances could be better off financially.

[I want the USA back]

Those who put their lives in danger to get an adrenaline thrill have to expect this. Sometimes they live, sometimes they die.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[RichInOC]

32 feet per second per second. It’s not just a good idea. It’s the law.

[Qiviut]

Just happened to see a documentary on base jumping called Twenty Seconds of Joy. If you get a chance to see it, it's very interesting. In looking up someone listed at the end of the film, I ran into the Base Fatality List ... no idea so many have died doing this. The list has the reason(s) why the jump(s) failed (if known) which gives a real insight into base jumping.

[Doogle]

"...ban parachutes"

[Uncle Chip]

Base jumping, an activity that involves jumping from fixed objects using wing suits and parachutes to break the fall, has resulted in at least 200 deaths.

that's a lot of deaths --

[IronJack]

So to summarize: thrill-seeker flings himself off high place, dies on impact with large fixed planet. Not really much news there, except maybe for the physics-impaired.

[freepersup]

Done properly, it’s called proximity flying. It’s the closest thing to human flight. Granted- one has to fall, to fly.

The title of the video contains a rather coarse expletive.

10:31 in length.

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W36TWiSKaI

[Vaquero]

I have never done either, But I’d skydive or base jump before I would bungee jump. I need to control my destiny.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I watched a documentary on it on Netflix. It was also a tribute to one of their jumpers that got killed doing it.

There was one shot of a guy on the green in a mountain village talking to the camera and two people flew over him at about 100 MPH.

I’ve seen the glide-ratio varying from 2.5 to 6 (to 1) Where a small plane may be around 9:1.

In the documentary, they claimed 7:1 (7 miles out from a mile high mountain top) and it showed them just skimming the edges of vertical cliffs and almost touching them with their fingertips. There would be several jump at once and while wearing helmet-cams.

I think they usually start by jumping out of airplanes as experienced parachutists before trying the wingsuit, then some graduate to “base-jumping”.

I don’t think they usually get killed by the fall (unless the suit fails) It’s probably from flying into a solid object a 100+ MPH.

[minnesota_bound]

Mark Sutton killed doing this. He slammed into the side of the mountain at over 100mph.
He was James Bond stand in at the Olympics. Other articles state he was in pieces when they found him.
http://tinyurl.com/pxgwus9