200 jumps. That's the minimum amount of jumps you have to make to be eligible to finally don a wingsuit and soar through the sky at speeds up to 140mph.
The wingsuit, a collaborative design from hundreds of people was started around 1930 and in 1999, a final standard wingsuit was made by Jari Kuosma of Finland and Robert Pecnik of Czech Republic with the goal to create a suit that is safe and accessible for all skydivers, but the path to the current wingsuit was not a happy trail. Between 1930 and 1961, 72 out of 75 birdmen died attempting to test their designs.
here are some pictures of people in wingsuits doing cool things people in wingsuits do:
~3minuteman
They remind me of flying squirrels, but it looks really exciting to do something like that.
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If I wasn't terrified of heights and totally uncoordinated, I'd do this.
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