Wingsuits and gliders flying together (Daily Telegraph picture)

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Skydivers 'fly' in formation with gliders in daring stunt over the Alps. At speeds of up to 120mph the skydivers, wearing specially-designed aerodynamic winged suits, fly alongside the planes.
Picture: Red Bill
 
;D

Sean's latest "connerie"...

http://youtu.be/ypjKxGCgO8E

Never was a man paid so much for doing so little... (and he's not even good at it!)
 
That would be so easy to make as a spoof. Radio control a wingsuit puppet and then fly it into the box pile where a guy is waiting in a wingsuit to emerge a bit later.
 
Via MilitaryPhotos.net, a much older example of wingsuits:

http://io9.com/malcolm-wheeler/
http://www.icarusreport.blogspot.ie/2006/06/when-theres-no-seat-cushion-flotation.html
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Sxyft6-hZrI
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/woman-in-wingsuit-flies-through-a-gap-between-two-build-1748600171​
 
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