Unbelievable wingsuit close call

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at that speed there is a high risk of getting fucked up

Mar 13 2014 8:57PM

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alex=

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I was thinking that same thing.

But tbh he wasn't even that close, he had a solid 5-6 feet. The skiier probably just shit himself and had the jumper's wind vortex hit him.

Mar 13 2014 8:58PM

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You are not fine slamming into the ground at 180 km/h. He would die. No doubt about it. Get learned.

Mar 13 2014 10:39PM

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Oh right, a body length of clearance from certain death while moving at 120 mph isn't close at all. I don't know how I would have missed that, he had tons of room for error.

Mar 13 2014 10:41PM

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wing suit landing without a parachute has been done. not into powder, though.

Mar 13 2014 10:57PM

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i was thinking at what point do you have to do that? he was so fucking committed.

shit vid was nuts

Mar 13 2014 11:17PM

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if he dipped at all, he would go face first through the powder, and at that speed, he would of hit had pack breaking his neck/back/face/everything. the snow wasnt even waist deep bruh

Mar 13 2014 11:39PM

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You know he was going like 60mph+? That stop could easily cause horrible head damage, and he would've rolled for 20+ feet

Mar 13 2014 11:40PM

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cardboard boxes

Mar 13 2014 11:46PM

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Looked like cardboard boxes? Lol

Mar 13 2014 11:52PM

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theabortionator

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magic boxes

Mar 14 2014 12:05AM

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regular boxes filled with magic

Mar 14 2014 12:38AM

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people crash in snow going 60+ mph all the time. People get injured a lot but rarely, if ever, any deaths that aren't related with something else going wrong (hitting a rock/tree, buried in snow, etc).

I think if the pow was deep and fluffy enough and the slope was just right it could be done without injury. Obviously with a good helmet and neck brace like that guy landing into the boxes.

Mar 14 2014 12:42AM

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It wasn't deep tho...

So many deaths of professional wing suit flyers. Guy may have lived because of the pow, but he'd be looking at a serious head injury/badly broken bones maybe neck as well.

Mar 14 2014 12:59AM

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are you fucking dumb? How do you figure going 100+ mph and slamming into the ground would have led to a good outcome?

Mar 14 2014 8:42AM

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I think you guys are missing the close call. He came within inches of the ground with his hand...

Mar 14 2014 9:25AM

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yeah i guess, it'd pry be like when water skiing, but going 5 times faster, he was going right over the snow, not bombing down, I think it would fucking hurt

Mar 14 2014 9:51AM

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downhill skiers crash on hard pack going 80-90 mph all the time. 100 mph into really deep pow seems like it could work.

Did you see the box video?? Like that, but deep light pow instead. Totally doable.

The main issue would be making sure you wouldn't start flipping but just stay straight and headfirst.

Mar 14 2014 10:53AM

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Zero chance in hell he would have survived hitting the ground there

Mar 14 2014 3:40PM

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DayMan

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Holy fuck I want to do that. That looks so much fun

Mar 14 2014 3:45PM

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Mar 14 2014 5:10PM

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Damn you're stupid

Mar 14 2014 5:41PM

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My designation of M.D. would say otherwise.

Mar 14 2014 5:55PM

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So you're telling me that if you had the chance and ability to do this you would trust your life into a few feet of snow with potentially rucks under?

Mar 14 2014 6:30PM

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well clearly a safe landing would assume there are no rocks or anything else hard that could be hit and there's an adequate amount of snow.

Did everyone miss the video of the guy landing into boxes?? This could absolutely totally be done with snow.

Ok, after some very quick searching I found that the average speed of a wingsuit is ~160 kph forward with a drop rate of about 50-60 kph. Drop rates lower the 40 kph are possible.

You can, however, swoop with the wingsuit and get an effective drop rate of 0. Also your groundspeed will be your airspeed minus headwind.

So.

Let's assume a perfectly flat landing. Coming in straight you could be going 120 kph forward and 40 kph vertically. This could be enough to kill, but could also be survived. It would not be fun though. Now factor in that someone on approach could swoop up before the ground making their drop speed very low (it would be a parabola, so they will still be a bit off the ground with a drop speed of zero but would not reach anywhere close to the original speed again by the time they hit the ground). It's probably feasible to assume someone could hit with a 20 kph or less drop rate. If there's a decent headwind, say 40 kph, the groundspeed could be dropped to 80.

Now, someone coming in to fat ground with effective rates of 80 kph forward and 20 kph down could easily survive this fall into a good amount of soft snow.

It worked for boxes.

Mar 14 2014 6:48PM

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the fact that you're arguing about IQ scores really doesn't speak well for your own.

Mar 14 2014 7:06PM

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Mar 14 2014 9:10PM

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Bit it wasn't that deep...

He would have tomahawked, and he may have lived. He wouldn't have been fine. Can't compare it to ski crashes it's totally different.

And for the boxes the guy was wearing some special equipment for the landing.

Mar 15 2014 1:03AM

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Ballsdeepinmud

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You have got to be the stupidest person on earth if you think iq tests show how smart you are

Mar 15 2014 1:13AM

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McLS

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i wanna see some ws with some board on their back and slide some pow. while flying, could stop like that too if it had brakes or some shit.

Mar 15 2014 6:03AM

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Deforestation

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Nah there was this guy last year who landed into 10 thousand cardboard boxes or something.

Mar 15 2014 7:47AM

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Jesus christ you already were my least-liked NS in history, and now you're looking even more like a jackass

Mar 15 2014 9:28AM

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Jesus christ you already were my least-liked NS in history, and now you're looking even more like a jackass

Mar 15 2014 9:28AM

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Chompo.

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What if he strapped a big snowboard to his chest and used it to land?

Mar 15 2014 8:58PM

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I'll leave this here for you guys.

Mar 16 2014 2:35PM

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Craigskis

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I love how wing suits sound like jets

Mar 16 2014 2:38PM

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I want to believe that, but I really don't.

Mar 16 2014 2:48PM

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Basic math tells me Jamie was doing ~24.25ms (~54.25 miles/hour). More complex math says slower than that.

Mar 16 2014 3:22PM

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shocker611

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yeah that looked wayyyy too fake

Mar 16 2014 8:03PM

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scientist

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wingsuiting is a perpetual close call

Mar 16 2014 8:17PM

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I hope they weren't trying to pass that off as real

Mar 16 2014 8:30PM

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