0 a piece of clothing with artificial wings, used for flying in the air following a jump from an aircraft or from a high place --
While he was lucky to survive, this was not a case of true freefall survival, because he was flying a wingsuit, greatly decreasing his vertical speed.
He introduced the first wingsuit training program for skydivers in 1999.
Although these more rigid wings were better able to keep their shape in flight, this made the wingsuit heavier and more difficult to fly.
They specialize in high-speed tracking and proximity flying: wingsuit flight close to the mountain side.
Parafoils see wide use in a variety of windsports such as kite flying, powered parachutes, paragliding, speed flying, wingsuit flying and skydiving.
At the time, the sport of skydiving was in its infancy, yet the movie featured an extreme variation of the sport known as wingsuit flying.
The tri-wing wingsuit has three individual ram-air wings attached under the arms and between the legs.
His first successful powered wingsuit jump was in 2007, when he reached horizontal speeds of over 255 km/h (160 mph).
