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Old 7th December 2011 | 11:41
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Flying without the kit

I thought you folk might like this. A bit of a rush
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Old 7th December 2011 | 19:27
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I certainly do like it!

Search on You Tube for "Jeb Corliss - Grinding the Crack" for some more good quality wingsuit footage.
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Old 7th December 2011 | 20:48
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Barking mad.

Very, very impressive.

Barking mad.

Highly skilled.

Barking mad.

Balls the size of grapefruits.

And completely barking mad......
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Old 7th December 2011 | 21:23
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Awesome footage.

I wonder how much directional control he has ?

Reason for asking is he seemed to get very close to some of those tree tops / cliffs and a slight gust of wind the wrong way or pocket and ........
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Old 7th December 2011 | 21:33
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Now he deserves to wear a big watch.
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Old 7th December 2011 | 21:42
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Somehow the name
seems very apt!
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Old 7th December 2011 | 23:03
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I prefer skydiving "with the kit"!

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Old 7th December 2011 | 23:10
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An even better video exists where the lady wearing nothing but the parachute

Let's just say that the wind certainly makes some funny shapes on soft parts of the body.
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Old 7th December 2011 | 23:54
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That ain't rush. This be rush. Gut clenching starts at about 6 minutes.

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Old 8th December 2011 | 05:58
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Ahh, my 2 favourite things in life - skydiving and Estonian women
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Old 8th December 2011 | 06:39
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From: front seat, facing forwards
This is also pretty cool.

Sorry, don't know how to embed it.
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Old 8th December 2011 | 07:10
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500N the video you referred to brings a whole new meaning to "flaps 50" i seem to recall
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Old 8th December 2011 | 09:06
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ksimboy

You are very astute, you got it in one ! LOL

I was going to put something with those exact words in this thread
but decided it might be going too far so "soft parts" was as far as I went.

It is one hell of a video.

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Old 8th December 2011 | 20:15
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500N,

When someone sent me "that" video, it was entitled;

"I thought the parachute was meant to make the flapping sound".

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Old 8th December 2011 | 20:21
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That is very good indeed. I now need a new keyboard courtesy of the morning coffee

I did like ksimboy's "Flaps 50" as well, although to me the pilot had lost all control of the flaps !



"That" video is why forums need to have a NSFW section where you have to sign in with acknowledgements of what is contained inside.
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Old 17th January 2012 | 03:50
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Jeb Corliss crashed into a mountain in South Africa the other day. Amazingly he survived!

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