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Title: Would you try this....
Post by: webmaster on May 15, 2008, 03:15:45 PM: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080515/video/vwl-birdman-takes-to-the-skies-15af341.html

the ultimate adrenaline rush I think!
Title: Re: Would you try this....
Post by: choco bean on May 15, 2008, 03:23:26 PM: Coolio :banana: I don't think i'd like it though, the feact you are looking at the ground, and me not liking heights could be an issue!
Title: Re: Would you try this....
Post by: Greggles on May 15, 2008, 03:34:03 PM: i would i have allways wanted to sky dive to im gunna da my first tandum jump on my 18th if i can :D
Title: Re: Would you try this....
Post by: Sx Nutta on May 15, 2008, 04:14:28 PM: sky diving is fun, and you will enjoy it :P
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Post by: ShortSteve on May 15, 2008, 05:50:38 PM: i have one answer
HELL YES!!!
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Post by: hybrid_hex on May 15, 2008, 06:20:28 PM: I wouder If he would lend them to me!! That guy has balls, and good tech skills!! lol!
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Post by: Jelly on May 15, 2008, 09:46:47 PM: Wow, that looks sooo much fun, cant wait for my skydive! jelly x
Title: Re: Would you try this....
Post by: Brendan (NeoNinja) on May 15, 2008, 11:10:41 PM: Quote from: Greg11 on May 15, 2008, 03:34:03 PM
i would i have allways wanted to sky dive to im gunna da my first tandum jump on my 18th if i can :D

Awesome, that's when I did mine. :) I couldn't view the vid... what was it? And yes, I'd do it! ;D lol.
Title: Re: Would you try this....
Post by: Nero on May 16, 2008, 10:22:28 AM: yeah i was checking this out through msn yesterday, i want a set of them wings man, only thing i thought was a bit pants was the fact he had to start in a plane, would have been better with some iron man style take off
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Post by: Spud on May 17, 2008, 12:12:56 PM: I want to go across the channel in a squirrel suit. Have seen stuff on this guy before. Probs on one of the email send outs from the flying club.. thats guy is crazy. I think we shoudl stick a remote on him and fly him around like a model

:spudT:
Title: Re: Would you try this....
Post by: Joe Legg on May 17, 2008, 02:52:33 PM: nah its not for me i hate hights and anything that might cause me to hurt myself. im a stay at home guy a watch the disney channel person.
Title: Re: Would you try this....
Post by: Dark Knight on May 17, 2008, 03:25:21 PM: Quote from: Spud on May 17, 2008, 12:12:56 PM
I want to go across the channel in a squirrel suit.
:spudT:
Wouldn't the fluffy tail make it hard :biggrin:
Title: Re: Would you try this....
Post by: Spud on May 17, 2008, 03:59:41 PM: Quote from: soul rancher on May 17, 2008, 02:52:33 PM
nah its not for me i hate hights and anything that might cause me to hurt myself. im a stay at home guy a watch the disney channel person.

A bocker said this!! A bocker that can flip!! Must be some sarcarm there right???

Quote from: Dark Knight on May 17, 2008, 03:25:21 PM
Quote from: Spud on May 17, 2008, 12:12:56 PM
I want to go across the channel in a squirrel suit.
:spudT:
Wouldn't the fluffy tail make it hard :biggrin:
:haha: sure would but proberly wouldt make much difference *googles glide ratio of a squirrel suit* Wow maximum of 2:1. Thats poor. I think a hang glider has about 7:1, an old bad glider 14:1 a normal glider 23:1 and a good one as high as 60:1..but still looks awesome.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ttz5oPpF1Js&eurl=http://www.awesomeology.com/2007/11/09/this-video-is-crazy-unbelievable/ (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ttz5oPpF1Js&eurl=http://www.awesomeology.com/2007/11/09/this-video-is-crazy-unbelievable/)
Title: Re: Would you try this....
Post by: Sx Nutta on May 17, 2008, 04:57:20 PM: Quote from: soul rancher on May 17, 2008, 02:52:33 PM
nah its not for me i hate hights and anything that might cause me to hurt myself. im a stay at home guy a watch the disney channel person.

sounds a bit like me some days, lol
Title: Re: Would you try this....
Post by: hybrid_hex on May 27, 2008, 07:48:49 PM: Quote from: Dark Knight on May 17, 2008, 03:25:21 PM
Quote from: Spud on May 17, 2008, 12:12:56 PM
I want to go across the channel in a squirrel suit.
:spudT:
Wouldn't the fluffy tail make it hard :biggrin:
:haha: sure would but proberly wouldt make much difference *googles glide ratio of a squirrel suit* Wow maximum of 2:1. Thats poor. I think a hang glider has about 7:1, an old bad glider 14:1 a normal glider 23:1 and a good one as high as 60:1..but still looks awesome.
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Now what you really should have searched for, is the gross weight an African Swallow can carry!!! (You need to know your Monty Python to get that one!)
Title: Re: Would you try this....
Post by: magzzie on May 27, 2008, 11:41:53 PM: im thinking proto type iron man for real
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Post by: Sx Nutta on May 27, 2008, 11:50:09 PM: iron man rules, lol
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Post by: magzzie on May 28, 2008, 01:18:12 AM: sure does might go see it this week :laugh: :nana: :haha: :haha: :nanadance: :nanadance: :nanadance:
Title: Re: Would you try this....
Post by: sprog on May 28, 2008, 02:03:12 AM: HELL YES I WOULD TRY THAT!!! :D
Title: Re: Would you try this....
Post by: hybrid_hex on May 31, 2008, 07:47:50 PM: Quote from: sprog on May 28, 2008, 02:03:12 AM
HELL YES I WOULD TRY THAT!!! :D

Nuff said!! lol! :D
Title: Re: Would you try this....
Post by: BlackStorm on June 01, 2008, 05:35:15 PM: what do you think was going through that guys mind when he tried it out for the first time? ;D

BS
Title: Re: Would you try this....
Post by: Spud on June 01, 2008, 06:51:19 PM: All the things his instructor had told him or advice given.
Title: Re: Would you try this....
Post by: hybrid_hex on June 01, 2008, 07:07:18 PM: His Ass if it failed!! :D
Title: Re: Would you try this....
Post by: Charlie B on June 01, 2008, 08:09:10 PM: Probably his emergency drills if it all went pear shaped
Title: Re: Would you try this....
Post by: Spud on June 01, 2008, 08:18:58 PM: The workload on your brain can get so high it stops working annd you think of...nothing. You become a passenger..lights are on nobody is home..I would guess if things went wrong you would be like that.
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Post by: Charlie B on June 01, 2008, 08:24:19 PM: Thats a very quick way to die, clearing mental over load is what emergency drills are for.

Spud you fly I am sure you go through your drills before every flight take of and landing just in case. I always did and it saved my life.
Title: Re: Would you try this....
Post by: Spud on June 01, 2008, 08:58:54 PM: I have been overloaded beofre now. I was not really in a good mental state to fly but I did. I was tired. I had not eaten all day and was dehydrated and was worried about other things..big no no. My instuctor put the glider in a spin and I went blank.

I have been spin checked. I can do it. stop the rotation, unstall the wings get back to normal. I am now careful when I fly and wont be pressured into it. I have done cable breaks too. Quite comfortable with that except for at 300ft. had a real one the other day. Fortuntaly was on the ground still.

I am about to take gliding seriously. Nearly a year since my first solo and college has got in the way. The pressure of having to go solo on my 16th birthday was intense and did put me off. I really must give it my all now. Just not a cheap hobby.

I groundlooped on my last solo. So embaressed lol.

Where did you fly? I only do my normal checks before I fly.