Come now Bernard, our National Broadcaster would never tell lies would they?
I don't see anything impossible here. A wingsuit jumper is a low L/D glider.
I want to see one with a skateboard with large wheels strapped to his
chest actually land on a runway. Might want a head up display on the
helmet with airspeed, altitude, rate of descent and simulate in
X-Plane until you get the combination right.
After all the X-15 was landed on runways, as was the Shuttle and
F-104 Starfighters could be deadsticked if you got everything just
right. I read a book by one USAF guy who deadsticked an F-16 in
Egypt. Was doing air test after maintenance and did a loop on takeoff.
Got to the top at 10,000 feet and the engine died so he landed it from there.
Mike
At 04:41 PM 11/29/2017, you wrote:
Is this for real???
Bernard
On 29 Nov 2017, at 4:07 pm, Mike Borgelt
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]>
wrote:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-29/wingsuit-fliers-board-plane-flying-over-swiss-alps/9205678
So who is going to do the first mid air hookup to a towplane?
Mike
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