Wingsuit Jeb Corliss

[seaeye]

Jeb Corliss has just posted a video of his accident on Table Mountain, SA.

After hitting a ridge, he manages to recover and release his reserve chute before crashing. Amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEFCQRwj28w

[Feathered_IV]

I don't know about these guys. Imagine being so dead inside that you have to do this sort of thing just to get a thrill.

[TomcatViP]

Oh c'mon don't say that.

Guts he has and respect we shld hve even if we - as flyer - we know that falling is just an ersatz (ok more like an exta pills for mammoth in that case).

I hope he will fully recover quickly and helps to prevents this to happen to his fans and his sports to get truly professional just like skydiving, delta flying, sailing etc...

[retrojet]

Dead inside?
He lives so close to the edge, he hits it now and then!
Crazy to some people... But amazing to most...
I wish I had the balls... I hope he still has his! :grin:

[swiss]

I wish I had the balls...

Maybe you were born with a brain instead.

[bravoalpha]

Jeb took his first steps today with crutches!
Dead inside??? Afraiding from everything, staying home, and giving a s*hit for thrilling or dangerous things is the way to being a dead. Jeb do the opposite way. He is pioneer!
Life is just starts when you try to push the limits.
Without these guys you couldn't write anything here because there had not been any airplanes.

[swiss]

Without these guys you couldn't write anything here because there had not been any airplanes.

Excellent comparison.
Internet vs. planes.
What future commercial product can we expect from them?


BTT:
What those guys do sure IS cool, incredible stupid too though.
Take the rocketman f.i., another a pioneer - however, if something goes wrong, he still has the parachute(and lives).
If one of those bats screws up, he's usually dead. Same goes for basejumpers.

[White Owl]

I've known a number of skydivers and BASE jumpers. A couple of traits they all have in common are a love of life and a love of flight. This isn't a deathwish at all, it's the exact opposite. It's a lifewish.

Although to be fair... Jeb is crazy and has stated in interviews he got involved in BASE jumping because it seemed like a way to come close to killing himself, but still stay alive. So he isn't exactly the sport's greatest spokesman, ya know? Don't judge all divers by him, please.

Skydiving six years ago I had a very bad landing and broke my back. In another few years I should be healed enough to get back out there and fly again. So very much looking forward to it. It doesn't feel like falling; it feels like flying. Flying like Superman. Nothing on Earth can compare.

[retrojet]

Swiss... Fair enough...
You don't do it... You don't want to... So be it... Some guys like to push the envelope... The guys who went to the moon were stupid... Fair enough...
Enjoy life to the full your way...
Some people die trying to do it their way... Stupid...

I'm sure you'll be happy on your deathbed...
;)

[bravoalpha]

Excellent comparison.
Internet vs. planes.
What future commercial product can we expect from them?

Excellent conclusion! Whitout planes you can not make a post in a forum of a Flight Simulator!

If there is no commercial products, is it senseless (and if its senseless in this way, is it a stupid and crazy thing)?
Riding a motorcycle, sailing a boat, climbing a wall or flying paragliders has no sense on market, don't produce any saleable value. Just produce pure fun, just one step above our daily commercial society life, where the real life starts and the pure things are! ;)
More on this kinda lifewish sometimes walks together with more risk, but they have their choice!

There is nothing future commercial for a pc user! Better wingsiuts, parachutes, and better technics for emergency chute systems are needed in aviation! :cool:

[swiss]

Swiss... Fair enough...
You don't do it... You don't want to... So be it... Some guys like to push the envelope... The guys who went to the moon were stupid... Fair enough...
Enjoy life to the full your way...
Some people die trying to do it their way... Stupid...


Apples - oranges.
The ratio of of risk vs return when flying to space is quite different(although everybody fixed on the top of a rocket will piss in his diaper and there's no way to avoid it ;))
If fact I know an astronaut still waiting for an ISS assignment. This guy is boring as hell. Another guy working ESA, training astronauts, on the other hand is one of the most interesting and funniest persons I've ever met.



I'm sure you'll be happy on your deathbed...
;)

Makes me wonder how anyone can be happy facing death. :confused:

There's a reason I dont ride motorcycles - the problem is not hitting a tree at 150mph, although likely - but ending up in wheelchair, or even worse as a tetraplegic.
Hm -maybe I'll get one anyway, at least before I turn 40, lol.


edit: Just found:

http://vimeo.com/29017795

[seaeye]

I didn't expect people to be so up tight about what this guy does. I don't fly a wingsuit, but when I see the guys that do (succesfully!!), I feel nothing but awe and envy for what they do on a daily basis.

Braindead? No. A good brain is a requirement I'd say. They plan their routes, don't just fling themselves of cliffs. Not just that, but the level of concentration required to constantly adjust your flightpath travelling at such high speed and proximity to solid rock is huge.

It can't be about wanting to die, or hating life. Otherwise, they'd jump without the parachute.

[Flanker35M]

S!

Everyone gets their rush out of something so why condemn these wingsuit guys. Professionally done it looks great but if someone fails..well..you know what happens and public opinion goes berserk. I sticked to parachuting...was enough thrill for me :-) Now with age..well..less dangerous hobbies :-)

[raaaid]

big balls? i call that an old sissy man

evry 6 days out of sevne a guy comes and tell him not to fly cause he is gonna die or get maimed

that guy is just a very old man so death inside that not even with this he gets 80 pulsation

im a kid and i get 80 just writing this and playing up to 130

in fact i stimate my medium age is like 7 or something and actually my most pleasurable high was in a dream as i was a samurai and facing two guys one of them killed me

my meories are carved in the stars

[5./JG27.Farber]

I found the prototype wingsuit today - jump and all...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBN3xfGrx_U&feature=player_embedded

This man had great faith in his own invention. Strangely his testicals were normal. Pretty strange you would do this from a static "low" object considering the parachute is available. It reminds me of Hans-Ulrich Rudel's book STUKA pilot, he jumps as a kid out of an upstairs window with an umbrella - breaking both legs.

[seaeye]

Here's Jokke Sommer's new film for those that are interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmlAW_1hgT8&feature=youtu.be

[bravoalpha]

Jeb talks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8yPxQGTSRA

[WTE_Galway]

I don't know about these guys. Imagine being so dead inside that you have to do this sort of thing just to get a thrill.

It's really no different to what motivates these guys ...

http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=29433

[raaaid]

Yeah I apologized about what I said of him being an old sissy man, I was influenced by madness

I wished I had the braveness to do that

[Outlaw]

Makes me wonder how anyone can be happy facing death. :confused:


Those that have truly lived can happily face death.

--Outlaw.