sail, jeb corliss, a new take on flight

cass · 09-05-2011, 04:12 AM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0...html?ir=Travel

glad i'm not related to this nut!

GL · 09-05-2011, 05:15 AM

Pretty Amazing but indeed Crazy

flying · 09-05-2011, 10:02 AM

I was watching a video of wing suit jumpers. They were flying under a very tall bridge then opening there chutes. One guy flue into the bridge at a 100 MPH. Needles to say that was the end of his life. To go that close to the ground, that fast with a 1to1 glide ratio is really pushing it.

Donno · 09-05-2011, 09:46 PM

Hope that no one took the "...comes within a few feet of the ground before leaping back up again." statement seriously. Jeb is the guy trying to get backing to attempt landing a wingsuit without opening a 'chute. He wants to build a properly angled ramp that he could land belly-down on, and long enough to bleed off his forward speed. As you can see when he "grinds the crack", he has the control to do it.

cass · 09-06-2011, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Donno

Hope that no one took the "...comes within a few feet of the ground before leaping back up again." statement seriously. Jeb is the guy trying to get backing to attempt landing a wingsuit without opening a 'chute. He wants to build a properly angled ramp that he could land belly-down on, and long enough to bleed off his forward speed. As you can see when he "grinds the crack", he has the control to do it.

bleed off his forward speed with a ramp? how's he gonna do that? he got flaps on that thing? he gonna almost stall it first? what? inquiring minds wanna know

impact with a ramp at basically freefall speed would kill him.

Donno · 09-11-2011, 05:55 PM

I believe that you can get better than 1:1 glide ratio, and a bit of flare/ground effects when you get close to the ground (as when he goes past the balloons in the vid). He was talking to some promoters in Vegas, but the economy is still too shaky. He's flown under the arm of the statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro without hitting the ground below (and beyond). If he can have a ramp designed at the same angle as his glide ratio for 'x' meters, and then getting more shallow once he touches down, he might make it. Probably has a design for some kind of drogue once he touches down as well.

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flying Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Southern Oregon coast Posts: 934	I was watching a video of wing suit jumpers. They were flying under a very tall bridge then opening there chutes. One guy flue into the bridge at a 100 MPH. Needles to say that was the end of his life. To go that close to the ground, that fast with a 1to1 glide ratio is really pushing it. __________________ T12L1 Incomplete Still here This is the place to be 58 years old

09-05-2011, 09:46 PM	#4
Donno Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Whately, MA United States Posts: 2,041	Hope that no one took the "...comes within a few feet of the ground before leaping back up again." statement seriously. Jeb is the guy trying to get backing to attempt landing a wingsuit without opening a 'chute. He wants to build a properly angled ramp that he could land belly-down on, and long enough to bleed off his forward speed. As you can see when he "grinds the crack", he has the control to do it. __________________ Don - Grad Student Emeritus T3/4 ASIA A 20 years post injury

09-11-2011, 05:55 PM	#6
Donno Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Whately, MA United States Posts: 2,041	I believe that you can get better than 1:1 glide ratio, and a bit of flare/ground effects when you get close to the ground (as when he goes past the balloons in the vid). He was talking to some promoters in Vegas, but the economy is still too shaky. He's flown under the arm of the statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro without hitting the ground below (and beyond). If he can have a ramp designed at the same angle as his glide ratio for 'x' meters, and then getting more shallow once he touches down, he might make it. Probably has a design for some kind of drogue once he touches down as well. __________________ Don - Grad Student Emeritus T3/4 ASIA A 20 years post injury

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