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It looks like a nitro rigging suit, no idea what model though.

I have never used the site, but I like the idea behind localbitcoins.com. It keeps with the spirit of the P2P aspect of bitcoin. Pretty difficult to day-trade that way though, if that's what you're into. You can also find people selling bitcoins on ebay if you really want to use paypal. There are certain pitfalls to making an irreversible bitcoin transaction with a reversible paypal transaction though. There's usually a premium that you'll pay for BTC that's purchased off of a major exchange.

Hey Lurch, thanks for the info. Do you or anybody else know what the difference is between an Apache, Apache XRW, and an Apache Rebel is? thanks

Complete success. Zero injuries.

Contrary to what a few people have mentioned here, there are a few wingsuits that have slightly extended winspans, resulting in a higher aspect ratio. The V-suits have grippers that are angled out a little bit, so arguably they could have an increased AR if flown completely improperly. The Pro-fly has grippers that stick straight out, increasing AR a litle bit. The really cool thing that I've seen in a couple of less common suits like the manta and the alien suits is the use of curved grippers, which result in a greater AR than straight grippers would give. So, even though we're talking about a tiny increase in AR, it is factually incorrect to say that it is factually incorrect that wingsuits have not recently been designed with increased AR over older suits. Flying is bitchin.

Got it, thanks.

Hey Jeb, could you enlighten us as to what is different between the apache and the apache x?

I jumped an s-fly for a while, never with an eliptical canopy mind you, but I think I would be comfortable jumping any canopy with an s-fly that I was also comfortable jumping without a Ws. I always cut away the armwings on deployment, which on an s-fly results in being able to grab risers just about as soon as you could had you not been wearing a wingsuit. I found it easy to deploy symetrically and react to my canopy deployment just as though I was tracking. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that if you are comfortable jumping a canopy without a wingsuit, jumping it with a suit like an s-fly should not pose any aditional problems as long as you are comfortable cutting your wings away on every jump. Y'all can take that with a grain of salt though, I've never jumped anything resembling a high performance canopy.

Hey saxboy, I'll try and give you the best advice I can for max-glide s-fly flight. First, I prefer the suit to be as tight as possible, so I route my cutaway cable through the third gromet on the hand-loop to make it very tight. It may not be the same for you, but the third gromet is what works best for me. I like to fly with my arms as flat and paralell to the ground as possible ( making a curve or scoop with your arms doesn't really work very well for the s-fly unlike other suits in my experience). Keeping my palms facing the ground and rotating my thumbs outwards to keep the wing tight works best for me. To create forward drive, I like to curve my upper torso very slightly downward toward the earth to create a scoop effect with my upper body. Finding the right ammount of "scoop" will take a little experimentation. (sorry if this is confusing, it's kind of hard to describe). I haven't ever done much experimentation with subtle changes in leg position, but just pointing your toes as straight as possible works pretty well. The s-fly is a great suit and will glide surprisingly well if you take the time to learn how to fly it. I put a good 40 or 50 jumps on mine before I was able to really make it glide, but once I figured it out, it was kind of a "eureka" moment. I hope this helps. Good luck!

A BASE canopy is almost always free-packed into the container with the lines s-folded into a velcro pocket on the tail of the canopy. The canopy is folded pretty similar to a skydiving reserve, and then s-folded into the container. It works pretty well.

Maria, I love your enthusiam and your pioneering spirit, but your idea of how muscles work is so wrong it hurts. I know that it's not terribly relevant to the conversation, but I didn't want anybody to read that and then to think that muscles contract because they get "pumped with fluid."

How the mighty have fallen

I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, but Robi's suit looks like it's a V3.5... things to look forward to in the V4.

Sorry dude, didn't meen to be a dick, but I guess that's the only way you could interpret that... I'd love to post on s-f.com, but unfortunately I don't know jack about dick about speed flying! I've got a spankin' new bullet though, so hopefully I can become a real member of the community and I can make some kind of contribution someday. On a serious note, I am truely grateful that guys like you are passionate enough to put time and energy into spreading information and educating idiots like me. Thanks!

That pretty much sums up what I have observed.

I don't mean to keep this shit storm raging but I'm gonna throw in my two cents here The footage of Matt flying in Bispen looks slow. Like really slow. I have seen footage of swoops that look almost that fast. I'm not trying to say that the s-bird is always a slow suit, or even that it can't be flown fast, but I think it is probably one of the best slow fying suits out there. Matt and I did a jump this summer, I went first and he went after I landed. He was jumping his s-bird and I was in a v3. I remember seeing him fly at what looked to be a really impressive glide, but I had no idea how he was staying aloft while flying so fucking incredibly slow! It was like watching a bus trying to fly! It was one of the weirdest things I had ever seen. I know that this is just another unsupported anecdote, but I've heard lots of people saying how fast the s-bird is and I have only seen evidence to the contrary. My guess is that, just like I've heard people been saying for a long time, the massive wing that goes down the body probably limits the suits ability to go really fast, but conversely is able to generate a really flat glide at a low speed. I don't want anybody to think I'm bashing anyone or anything, I just want to see some real evidence that the S-bird can be flown fast instead of people just saying so (just like nobody should dogmatically believe it's slow just because I said so). And anyways, who cares if it's fast or slow? from what I've seen it still flies great.

All of this talk about speed flying is great! I'm glad that there is somewhere on the interweb that I can read this stuff! speed-flying.com is deader than Michael Jackson!

I just acquired an ozone bullet and haven't had a chance to fly it yet. I'm a little bit confused about your comment about how they are not supposed to be flown with risers. My rig definetely has dive loops sewn into the front risers. Are those just for decoration or are you saying that only rear risers shouldn't be used?

I almost never post here, but I feel the need to say that's fucking incredible.

Sorry dude, couldn't help myself.

To answer your second question, they are in the midwest. Elementary, butters.

Hey man, It sounds like you have the cutaway set up incorrectly. make sure you have the cable routed through the right channel. It's not the "loop" that sticks out past the suit, but the channel directly inferior to it. Sorry if that didn't make sense, but it sounds like you did the exact same thing that I did when I first set up my suit.

Try and think of it like this: Higher performance suits tend to have larger wings (arms and legs). The size of the legwing should be big enough to tip you forward (head slightly below the horizon). This can be done by making it either longer or wider. If the suit designer has brought the edge of the wing down to the tips of the tows and doesn't want to extend it past the toes then the legwing must be made wider. Remember that as the armwing size increases, the legwing size must also increase to keep you at the correct angle. The other reason for making a legwing wider instead of longer was mentioned above. It will improve stability.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXp5QSfXLQU

Not quite sure what your getting at, but for the record, all of my water landings were intentional. Landing in deep water was a little bit accidental though.