VectorBoy

Some European CRW teams fly triathalons 99s not sure what loading or how wild the landings. Two years ago at nationals on of the teams used tri 99s for their rotations most of the landings were sliders.

Nice to see the project is still active.

What more do you require? Would all of you squirrels pleases stop feeding the nut! This use to be a serious forum.

If I grow up I'm going to be Vectorman.

a description on the differences between the acro and shadow. A lot more foreward speed. Im flying one myself, . And everyone who has, will stand by those 'marketing claims'. Its a wonderfull, small, fast and agile wingsuit. To the original poster, get the shadow. Its much better than the ACRO . Everybody agrees. I have one too believe it or not.

The shadow just gives that one a big turbo-injection and makes it a wonderfull tool for both BASE and (Skydive) Aerobatics.... Lets not get all hype-a-tronic. There are only a small number of wingsuit customers out there. The shadow only makes the ACRO ballanced or the Phantom gripperless. You pick which one appeals. The sooner wingsuit manufactures stop using marketing terms like turbo power, computer designed, mylar ribbed exotic fiber reinforced and just start shipping suits on time as promissed, in the right colors as ordered. properly fitting as measured and stop shitting on the very small customer base which is not growing then things will improve. Most people who buy wingsuits don't care what a 120 pound vegan from a country with bad dental care can do off a cliff in a particular Brand/product of wingsuit. Comment not directed at any particular 120 pounder, but at that weight you won't be good for much you better be good at BASE. Most people who buy wingsuits do care that the $1000 they spent gives them a suit that fits and works and does not have to be sent back to the factory repeatedly for what ever reason. Some of us know sponsored toofless is getting a free suit or a huge discount. Hey earn the $1000. Seriously.

It could best be described as what the Acro design should have been to begin with.

Interesting, I love my super mach. It is a lot of suit but it never felt heavy in fact I always thought it flew itself. Despite its size it never wears my arms compared to other suits. I have noticed everybody going ape for these new X suits or the conversion of their super machs. I should convert just one side to get a true A-B comparison.

Bump.

I got in a "flat spin" in my level 5 AFF jump. Was supposed to do a single backflip and ended up doing about 30. I guess my body just has a dangerous shape that causes "flat spins." Were you wearing a wingsuit in your AFF course? True flat spins are much easier to get into with the ability to put your hands above your head I've done it also but its not easy to get into a real flat spin in a wingsuit. Still waiting for the video of a true wingsuit flat spin.

Not a welder or a metalworker. How does one shrink aluminum (or any metal for that matter)? And what would it be done for? Shaping compound curves in sheet metal from flat sheet requires stretching some of the metal and shrinking it around the the edges. Stretching is "relatively" easy to do. Every time you ding metal you just stretched it. Shrinking requires gathering pleats and smashing them flat and smooth without re- stretching it. You can only do so much compound shapeing , for lack a better word, in one piece so its done in segments and welded together to form a classic car fender or custom chopper gas tank as examples then these segments are seamlessly welded together. The true masters will weld these segments together with oxy/ ace to minimize the weld bead stress across a seam that may need further repeated shrinking or stretching and shaping. The weld area behaves just like the rest of the sheet while being worked. Other weld techniques would fail with further shapeing and re-shapeing of the sheet metal. Sheet metal can be shrunk by gathering pleats or tucks and smoothly smashing the down and by various methods of thermal shrinking with torches or friction discs and quenching with cool water but there is still a lot of hammer techniqe involved. I'm referring to sheet metal work. For the thicker work of pipe fitting TIG roots and stick passes are still the norm.

was this a flat spin? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSItSmxJD3g No! Not even remotely! In fact there is not one single video evidence of a wingsuit "flat spin" ever posted here. Plenty of weak oscilating ground bound augers but no flat spins. BTW your video is just a downward auger. Your video centered on one point on the ground backs up the spinning drill or augering position. Once you go on your back the fact that your upper body is bent at an angle to your legs in the sitting position or upper body augering and legs bent making you spin. This is just a lazy body being flown by the wingsuit instead of flying the wingsuit. Think of a fast spinning pin wheel, that pin wheel is your body. Get the picture of true flat spin? It is not common because the delta ( winsuit) position is reluctant to enter a flat spin. Fucking ironic as much as the term is thrown around this discipline. Flat spin is equal to laying flat perpendicular to the relative wind spinning at an astonishing high rate of speed. This high rate of speed's centripedal force makes recovery or even a change of orientation tremendously difficult to impossible. The video should show the horizon spinning madly by. There have been pictures of ruptured blood vessels in the eyes as a result of flat spins ( maybe) but not a single true honest flat spin video from the first person or outside. Next!

I was a firm believer in the pure essence of TIG for the important welds and anything aluminum or stainless. Lately I've come to see the work of some master coach builders who have been doing amazing welds with oxy/Ace in steel and aluminum...... but they put the time in to gain the skills and experience to make expert welds with simple equiptment.

You don't always drink beer..... but when you do, you drink Dos Equis

It's the best money I have spent on a "tool" in over a decade. Well, that and my MIG welder.... Your MIG welder needs a bottle.

I met a framer who had kick back on his skill saw, this time the saw went flying back wards on to his belly and started cuisinarting it all looked like a burn victim after it healed.

Four years ago we held a CRW camp for people who have never done CRW. A visiting jumper came a very long way just to partake. The was a three way momentary wrap resulting in a very experienced jumper cutting away and the visiting newbie having the cuttaway canopy's bridle wrapped up in his riser/Slider zone requiring the use of a hooknife. The new guy loved it.

Thank you for the generosity of your time and talents.

My kids do. I never get past dunkirk. Repeatedly flying inverted under the bridge is more fun than attacking the armored column.

When those that call them selves wingsuit instrctors with nothing to back it up repeatedly ignore those recommendations, Maybe, just maybe this will be a speed bump to help slow some people down. Just curious as to what is your back it up? Or In your opinion "real Back it up" Who has got the real back it up Loic, Robi, Jari? In your opinion? I'm curious!

I went that year specifically to see the racer only to learn of the crash during qualifying.

Was that the Pond racer?

You don't want sand in it. The liner does not readily come out and you don't want contamination. A few grains of sand flying around getting into audibles or your eyes in free fall would suck. You can scuff the existing paint to paint over it or you can sand down to get gouges out if you have them.Then wet sand with fine then finer sand paper.

good link Yuri

No Yuri. The best pink skyvan exit was when the aircraft was inverted ( barrel roll) . This one is less than the best.