Wingsuit - Parachute formation

[mccordia 74]

The footage of Luis Cani landing his VX - 39 is already incredible, but I you see him flying in close formation with a wingsuiter in this video you'll go nuts....waayyyy cool!!

Vidéo do Luis Cani com o VX- 39 - 5.721 Kb
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[VectorBoy 0]

Thats Jeb Corliss in his S-3. I hope eventually that we see the whole project. They actually had a solid dock. They practiced for many many jumps across as many days to get it just right.

Jeb and Tim Rigby flew close formation while other members of team extreme flew outside video in their wingsuits. There should be a lot of good usable footage.

Some of us got to practice this run with him, months before Luigi received his 39, on his 46. That was fun.

[kevin922 0]

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Thats Jeb Corliss in his S-3. I hope eventually that we see the whole project. They actually had a solid dock. They practiced for many many jumps across as many days to get it just right.

Jeb and Tim Rigby flew close formation while other members of team extreme flew outside video in their wingsuits. There should be a lot of good usable footage.

Some of us got to practice this run with him, months before Luigi received his 39, on his 46. That was fun.

You sure it was an S3? He had an S4 prototype he was jumping at one point.

I talked with the rigger this weekend who put the lines on that canopy before Luigi jumped it said there was a documentary being released on it.

[ManBird 0]

That's definitely the S3.

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[kevin922 0]

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That's definitely the S3.

How can you be so sure? The differences between the s3 and some of the s4 prototypes are difficult to see from a low quality video

[SkymonkeyONE 4]

I don't believe the Mylar stiffners in the wings of that suit make a bit of difference after inflation. That is a BASE thing.

[leroydb 0]

thats the same thing i have heard on the flip side

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[kevin922 0]

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I don't believe the Mylar stiffners in the wings of that suit make a bit of difference after inflation. That is a BASE thing.

True, but the point was to figure out what suit he was flying, and if he had been flying a s4 it could be possible that is what he was flying there.. not that an s4 would make a hell of a lot of difference on that flight.. but being able to see the mylar ribs from that video is damn near impossible.

[ManBird 0]

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That's definitely the S3.

How can you be so sure? The differences between the s3 and some of the s4 prototypes are difficult to see from a low quality video

The leg wing is different between the two suits. Goes a good 10" - 12" past the feet. If that does have mylar ribs, then it'd basically be a mylar-ribbed S3.

Looking at the video again -- the smoke does make it harder to tell, but it didn't look as big as what I've seen of the S4 prototypes. I might be on crack.

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[VectorBoy 0]

Kev you are right. The suits that Jeb and Tim and Jari fly are mylar stiffened ribbed. Since I've never heard anyone at Bird-man officially refer to those suits as S-4 I don't. The only place I've seen the "long-tail" suit was a picture of Jari in a skydiving magazine. The times I've seen his personal rig at boogies its just the mylar three.

I don't think BM plans to market either suit to the masses and don't know if something else, bigger, better and different will come out with the S-4 moniker at a much later time when there is the design to meet the demand. I do know those suits sport the same planform as the production S-3s, same as my preproduction or experimental back-vented S-3. To me they are all S-3s. I also know my back vents loose some effiecency over a production version but I'm not sure if the mylar adds any over the production version either.

Both Jeb and Tim are much taller than myself otherwise I would swap suits for a day with Tim. I wouldn't mind trying the mylar S-3 and he is Eyeballing the Matter 2 everytime I fly it.

I also know we had a blast those days while those guys were working on the Dock the 39 project and our group had a bunch of new wingsuit testing stuff going on. We about just filled up the plane with flyers, dockers and cuttaway canopy chasers. So many wings on one plane kinda reminds me of Rantoul.

[LouDiamond 1]

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I don't think BM plans to market either suit to the masses and don't know if something else, bigger, better and different will come out with the S-4 moniker

Just like many prototypes, it won't see production for the masses for many of the same reason proto cars don't make it. It's too expensive and not very practical to produce and the customer base is too small to support the expense of building. Besides, the added benefit of the mylar was BASE specific and the results were marginal at best. Besides expense, there is the issue of wear and tear that the mylar has on the fabric over the long term. Anything is possible but I am pretty sure we won't see the model designation "S4" on the next production suit.

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[ManBird 0]

Yeah, especially since the S5 has been getting flown for awhile. ;)

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[diablopilot 2]

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That's definitely the S3.

It's not. It's a prototype.

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[diablopilot 2]

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The leg wing is different between the two suits. Goes a good 10" - 12" past the feet. If that does have mylar ribs, then it'd basically be a mylar-ribbed S3.

I've seen Tim Rigby's Jeb's, and Dwane Weston's prototype BirdMan wingsuits, and the leg wing while long does not extend that far past the feet. The Arm wings are longer for sure, and they have stiff ribs.

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