Wingsuit Designs

[TheMastersSon]

Five countries are now working to design a wingsuit that can land safely without a parachute. A lot of different ideas have been proposed or tried, everything from landing ramps to cardboard boxes, but birds have a 300 million year headstart on flying and imo we should listen to them: they and airplanes use landing gears to land, so I'm sure the solution is a wingsuit with extendable wings and tail. Take the same surface area of the chute and simply redistribute it (as adjustable panels or in some other way) around the wingsuit, with most of it in the wing and tail areas for stability.

 

The point of posting this here is to solicit fantasy wingsuit designs (images only, no plans or models) that artists believe might actually be feasible. This is a case where fantasy not only has a very good chance of becoming reality, it's already happening every day, e.g.

 

 

 

(note: nsfw language at end of second clip)

Edited November 14, 2012 by TheMastersSon

[Maharg67]

Amazing! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

At this moment I have no images to submit but I will do what I can. :dance: