Wingsuit History until Man Can Fly Like Ironman

For you fans of extreme sports, this sport will surely increase your adrenaline! Wingsuit skydiving or commonly referred to wingsuit flying is a sport where you can feel the real fly. This exercise uses a special outfit called wingsuit, special costumes like a parachute that can mebuat floating body because these costumes add surface area of ​​the body so the body can be lifted and floated in the air.

Wingsuit skydiver still use a parachute to land. Specially designed parachute used for skydiving or BASE jumping is made to provide convenience of grabbing skydiver parachute release lever and control the parachute to land safely,

Wingsuit designed to resemble the flying squirrel's body, so it is also called the "flying squirrel suits". So you can maneuver in the air like ironman by moving the body to close and open the "wings" that are in costume. In general, sport wingsuit begins from aircraft or BASE-jump exit points such as high slope or the edge of a waterfall.

Flying squirrel with a Latin name Pteromyini / Petauristini has the expertise and body shape was the inspiration in designing wingsuit. Flying Squirrel can not fly like a bird in a long time, they were only able to fly as far as 90 meters, which makes it possible to move from one tree to another.

Eiffel Jumper - Franz Reichelt 1912

Wingsuit history can not be separated from the Eiffel Jumper or Franz Reichelt who in 1912 who tried to fly by jumping from the top of the Eiffel tower using a parachute and wing design. But the cost does not go smoothly, Riechelt died after he crashed into the ground. But the surprising results of the autopsy, Reichelt in fact have been killed before landing because of a heart attack.This extreme sport such as a realization of a fantasy, for many people who had always wanted to fly. After the creation of aircraft, wingsuit skydiving can make you fly like a bird the sky without any obstructions, so the more you can feel how so Ironman flying the sky.

Like the other extreme sports, wingsuit skydiving has many risks. For those of you who intend to try this sport, you have to memgikuti previous practice of coaches who have been certified. Birdman is the first modern wingsuit maker and founder of the birth of other similar companies, in addition to producing costumes, birdman also provides training programs for a beginner. Similar companies phoenix fly, Fly Your Body and Nitro Rigging. ! how urbaners? Are you ready to jump and fly?

Birdman International is the originator of the manufacturer wingsuit. Wingsuit manufactured and designed by Jari Kuosma and Shin Ito are both after experienced for 15 years in the world of skydiving. At its inception, a skydiver others, namely Robert Pecnik participate as a co-founder of this company. Which has now set up a company with the name phoenix-fly.