What is the fastest wingsuit available at the moment?

[Trae 1]

The large choice of wingsuits is getting a bit confusing.

Can some-one help me by telling me what the best wingsuit is at the moment if you want to go fast horizontally.

I'm aware that some fall slower vertically due to being draggier but I'd like to know what goes the fastest forward.

Is it the Vampire from Phoenix ?

[unclecharlie95 3]

I have measured my Vampire V-1 with GPS - 106 mph sustained forward speed

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[piisfish 135]

the fastest suit is the one with the fastest pilot inside....

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[pierre3636 0]

O I ! this thread is going to get ugly

~ time is ~ time was ~ times past ~

[pbla4024 0]

Namwon in Příbram got 190 km/h = 120 mph. Maybe you need to gain few pounds? Six big beers (in Czech republic we do not drink small beers) a day for few years should do the job.

Fido

[unclecharlie95 3]

ok I'm starting now Warm Becks for breakfast
After a week in the mountains I'm down to 71kg

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[SimonM 0]

I have found that forward speed is also hugely influenced by prevailing wind. You can see it clearly on a GPS track where you do one leg into the wind and one against it on the same jump.

Personally the fastest suit I have seen in action is a V1. I was in an S3 flying as fast as I possibly could and the V1 fell at the same vertical rate but disappeared off into the horizon at a frightening rate.

Simon

[lintumies 0]

I don't know what is the fastest, but I think the Vampire is pretty fast...but I have been flying only GTi and Vampire.

Two weeks ago I got 58 km/h vertical average while flying faster horizontally than our Cessna 206 on jump run.
I left the plane early on the jump run and I was flying straight along the jump run, CRW jumpers who jumped one minute later told me after the jump that I was clearly overtaking the jump plane. Cessna was flying 80 kts indicated on the jump run.
So the glide ratio for the whole jump was over 1:2.6 (probably closer to 1:3, but I don't know how much faster than the Cessna I was flying)

And I know that I am not able to fly the Vampire to its full potential yet... It is so much speed and glide

[KrisFlyZ 0]

For me the Vampire V1 has been the fastest suit so far. I flew my S3 at an 87 mph average on one of the jumps. The V1 average speeds I calculated back from the WS BASE jumps last week were in the high ninetys.

Kris.

[The111 0]

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The V1 average speeds I calculated back from the WS BASE jumps last week were in the high ninetys.

Woa Kris, you taking your suit off objects already? I'm out of the loop!

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[Tonto 1]

I got 161 mph on my suit.

What's up with all this 100 mph bullshit? I thought we were talking about S-P-E-E-D!



t

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[phoenixlpr 0]

Airspeed or ground speed? You might have used GPS, so thats ground-speed. How about your tailwind? :)

[Trae 1]

in rep 2 Tonto's "I got 161 mph on my suit. "

And your suit is a ..............???

....over 360 klicks horizontally is getting fairly fast.

I reckon the Vampire looks the fastest .
That extra leg area must help push it along.
The S3 felt good for tricks but a bit of a slug for speed.

How does the S5 compare.?

[Tonto 1]

That's why I used the "" icon.

Ground speed has not been used as a means to measure aircraft speed/performance since the 1930's, and thus GPS "Data" is all just bullshit anyway.

Regardless, I've posted a speed in answer to the thread question "What is the fastest wingsuit available at the moment?" although I beleive as Piisfish said, that the fastest suit is the one with the fastest pilot inside.

Lets see if anyone has gone faster in anything. The crossing of the straights of Gibraltar worked out to an average ground (water?) speed of around 200 kmph, or 125 mph, which is still WELL below my max.

Post up. 161 anyone? If you beat it - I may even say what suit I used.

t

It's the year of the Pig.

[unclecharlie95 3]

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and thus GPS "Data" is all just bullshit anyway.

For my 106mph flight, it was a no wind day in the valley so it is safe to assume ground speed = air speed

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[Tonto 1]

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safe to assume

It's never safe to assume.

And there is no such thing as a windless day..

But 106 is a posted speed... so you only have 55 MPH to go!

t

It's the year of the Pig.

[The111 0]

I hit 196mph in my S3... vertical that is.

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[KrisFlyZ 0]

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The V1 average speeds I calculated back from the WS BASE jumps last week were in the high ninetys.

Woa Kris, you taking your suit off objects already? I'm out of the loop!

It was a one trip thing. I will not be taking that amount of risk in the next year or two. It may have made me the first Indian to have flown a WS off an object though.

Kris.

[unclecharlie95 3]

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But 106 is a posted speed... so you only have 55 MPH to go!

Ok, if I count the flight when the signal strength was weak, which caused a huge positional error.... 607mph

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[Tonto 1]

And there's a clue...

In the words of Robi, "Gravity is our only engine, Speed is our only friend."

t

It's the year of the Pig.

[Tonto 1]

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607mph

Damn. You whipped me!"

(But were you smiling at the time?)

t

It's the year of the Pig.

[unclecharlie95 3]

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(But were you smiling at the time?)

Yes, it was a nice 2 way

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[Trae 1]

Looks like the Vampire wins so far .

Everyone else is just mucking around.



Phoenix must have another Vamp being worked on . Might really be worth waiting for.

[unclecharlie95 3]

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Phoenix must have another Vamp being worked on . Might really be worth waiting for.

Product development is a continuous process at PF. Robi's imagination never stops dreaming up new ideas

A new "Vamp" is still a ways off yet...

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[The111 0]

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Phoenix must have another Vamp being worked on . Might really be worth waiting for.

I would question the logic of waiting for something that "must" be in the works.

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