Human Red Arrows (with Wingsuits!)

By Alex in Everything Else on Apr 2, 2009 at 8:36 am

Inspired by the UK Royal Air Force’s Red Arrows [beware: self-starting audio] aerial acrobatic team, a team of daredevils strive to emulate the stunts using only wing suits:

The team leap from a plane at 13,000ft and fly inches apart as they glide to earth at 120mph with smoke canisters strapped to their ankles. [...]

The extreme sport of wingsuit jumping started in 2002 but has grown in popularity and evolved into formation sky-diving.

The team – called Topgun’ – has members from Denmark, Sweden, Britain and Holland and jumps all over Europe in formations including up to 16 divers.

Link (with a blurry yet wicked cool video clip!) – via The Presurfer

(Photo: Mark Harris / SWNS)


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  1. Kev
    Apr 2nd, 2009 at 11:55 am

    The shot featured made me think of the Pope and a bunch of cardinals swooping in… nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

  2. dr joe
    Apr 2nd, 2009 at 12:12 pm

    Welcome to youtube 5 years ago.

  3. Kalel
    Apr 2nd, 2009 at 1:57 pm

    This is old? That explains the bell-bottoms.

  4. seefish3
    Apr 2nd, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    That was just beautiful. What a great thing to watch after a tense and crappy week of work. Sign me up !!!

  5. ted
    Apr 2nd, 2009 at 9:36 pm

    Yeah, they look like flying popes or suicide bombers.

  6. Aaron
    Apr 4th, 2009 at 1:48 am

    The bellbottoms you see are called booties. It’s extra fabric you can put tension on and use as a type of sail and produce forward motion and lift.


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