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  1. i have decided that this season i am going to make all of you my bithces, scotty bob; you too. enjoy, Luka --------------------------------- canyon bar
  2. ahhh mr. lurch if only you didn't reply it would have all been ok. let me clarify my post and accept my appologies for the not so easily detectable sarcasm. it takes a keen eye to spot these things. i forgot what i wanted to say, go to go; xena warrrior princess in on tv. --------------------------------- canyon bar
  3. hello mr. lurch, your flights are very impressive here on dz.com. it's like i am reading one of thoese inflight magazines with authority on everything. ok stay cool and enjoy your day. --------------------------------- canyon bar
  4. is no one thinking that with all this XRW with ''relatively'' normal size swoop canopies going on that the suits are very slow? --------------------------------- canyon bar
  5. very nice, especially soaring in a stack with a paraglider and speed glider. --------------------------------- canyon bar
  6. jump with relatively short start. please be aware that you can not directly transfer these exit numbers(rock drop vs distance needed to fly out) to a high altitude exit. also head wind is VERY helpful for WS start, turbulent conditions or back wind can can make your start considerably longer. --------------------------------- canyon bar
  7. it is the master himself. --------------------------------- canyon bar
  8. no way, i would give you all the suits in the universe so you can talk about laminar airflow and all that shit, and how the color of the material makes a difference just like some older fighter aircraft that were just polished aluminum and not painted to add perfomance characteristics. wait, wait, we could also add rivets beacuse rivets in the right places can add lift. enjoy. luka --------------------------------- canyon bar
  9. video has no oppening shot. exit from the aircraft and landing are on two different continents. as the landing that was filmed was at UAQ drop zone in the United Arab Emirates and the exit looks more like europe from PINK skyvan or similar. just a little FYI. enjoy, luka --------------------------------- canyon bar
  10. hello nico, congratulations on all you flights, i was there. how about all the other people that were there in the v2's how did they fly? anyway why are you pushing this suit so much on the internet, like if you were employed by the manufacturer. in my opininon we can no longer measure good suits and jumpers at ITW. everyone flies to the road at a good alt, this has become a site specific phenomenon. ITW no longer distinguishes good ws jumpers from very good ws jumpers in term of distance. ITW is condusive to good flights because of the usualy very good conditions. and i always have problems with comments about how quick a suit starts flying and the range of it and this shit about lift. these comments can not be quantified by just observations and solo jumps. a lot more jumps must be made with lot of different pilots, solos and ''base performance flocks''. flapping, well what can be said about flapping? dont do it, it's not nice! well the only plus that i saw with this suit is that it can easily be swithced from rig to rig quickly, good job. i hope you dont take offence to my commnets but if you do, well enjoy. enjoy, luka p.s. base jumping sucks the big balls now because everyone is doing it, it is practically like walking. --------------------------------- canyon bar
  11. this back and forth shit is what makes forums useless a lot of the time because none of us back up what we are saying, there is always someone who knows more etc. my comments about flapping were directly tied to robert and james filming each other in flight at close range and for a long time in the base environmet. ok i am done, guess you will win because i will not reply to this anymore. enjoy, luka --------------------------------- canyon bar
  12. kris, with correct body position(arms, legs, torso) there is no chance of any wing flaping. the flaping that occurs manifests itself from the leg sleeves where there is excess material aroung the calf muscle. this was filmed from ground and inflight cameras. i think this has to be made slightly larger so you can jump the suit in summer and winter where more clothing/bigger boots are required. luka --------------------------------- canyon bar
  13. "Just take a look at 'Fly the line'. The V2 itself can be improved a lot by making the armwing inflation more consistent." it is comments like these that make no sense. what the hell are you talking about? please enlighten me. enjoy, luka --------------------------------- canyon bar
  14. It may sound unorthodox, but I think unless you analyze WS BASE data by transforming it with the formulae at the above link into real L/D (Oyvind of VKB is doing this, kudos!), the best training for improving L/D is long sustained "frozen" flights near clouds so as to minimize fooling yourself with dynamic effects and see real L/D. ---------------- yes you got it. but i think that flying in the clouds helps your reference even more, but only if they are the fluffy kind and not the wet bad ones. enjoy. --------------------------------- canyon bar
  15. 2 nice exit shots photo credits: 1. giamma 2. jasna --------------------------------- canyon bar
  16. desert1

    Jump to work?

    the building on the left was that city's 2nd slider up jumped building. --------------------------------- canyon bar
  17. desert1

    Austria

    sorry to read this miko and also the rest of the austian jumpers. that site it too nice to get it screwed like this! luka --------------------------------- canyon bar
  18. hey do you know what camera suit that was? i need one like that to film tandems. enjoy. --------------------------------- canyon bar
  19. desert1

    Troll MDV

    the following is a sequence of pics from a 47m bridge. canopy troll 290MDV. i jump troll canopies from 265 to 305MDV. i have jumped the new troll 305MDV evolution from 72m ff and will jump it from lower altitudes soon. for the lower jumps with the difficult landings i use the big canopy. i have not had any issues with pressurization and anything related to big canopy and weight of it and inflation time. i performs just as well, if not better than the smaller canopies in my opinion. luka p.s. the las pic is just a nice one edited for spelling. engrish no good --------------------------------- canyon bar
  20. well at least birdman is finally are heading to the right direction; that if you want to move forward in flight the leg wing has to be in proportionaly bigger that the arm wings. everything else like the fancy shape arms wings looks very futuristic, good job, but where did the large front deflectors go? were they not put there for better "performance"? can you please explain a little bit what kind of changes did you guys make in the years of testing? there must be a ton of information you guys can share with us. glide ratios that were achieved for example. enjoy. --------------------------------- canyon bar
  21. even in the base environment i am wiling to guess that it happens more than 50% of the time. pitch was in full flight as seen also buy the previous pic in the series. http://www.slidebox.it/free/acrogarda/large-130.html --------------------------------- canyon bar
  22. desert1

    Glide ratio

    hello krisflyZ, i also must diasagree on this one, i and have seen (regularly jump with) people much taller than robi with huge leg wings that fly mucho excelente. enjoy, luka --------------------------------- canyon bar
  23. desert1

    ITW Fatality

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  24. the boom of the crane is not left to dangle over the street but it is blown to that position by the wind, cranes are also very good wind indicators, 90% of the time. they are left to swivel in the wind for safety unless they can swivel and hit nearby objects, otherwise they are set up so they can rotate. this i found out the hard way climbing to the tip of the boom. enjoy. --------------------------------- canyon bar
  25. peter was a great person and jumper. his story telling about his life experiences put a smile on everyones face. rip, luka --------------------------------- canyon bar