wingsuit - military

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Look Out Below! Wingsuits Pushed for Airbone Assaults | Danger Room | Wired.com

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Look Out Below! Wingsuits Pushed for Airbone Assaults | Danger Room | Wired.com

see the article on http://jimstar.sport.fr/614950/L-aile-volante-rigide-avec-parachute/


It's in french, but with google traduction :

This flying wing is called Gryphon. It is under development for two years through a partnership between the German company, ESG Elektroniksystem-und Logistik-GmbH and Freesky. The aim is to equip special forces of the Bundeswehr. These rigid wings can jump high altitude and cross-distance glide discreetly without the drop aircraft is forced to enter the area at risk. There is no news of the progress of the project in the media since!

Two interesting links on the GRYPHON:
- SPELCO studying a system quidage for military pilots
- A video GRYPHON

This type of wing combined with a parachute existed in sports and was offered on the market by the Munich-based company FREESKY as the Skyray. I could see it evolve during the Vichy boogies in the early 2000s, and I had to do jumping wingsuit with Loic Jean-Albert and Stephane Zunino and great training with Patrick Pass. The designer of this model Alban Geissler has developed this concept with the help of test pilot Christoph Aarne (8000 jumps and member of the German Daedalus VR4) and the first flights took place in 1999.

In 2003, Felix Baumgartner (this guy is awesome stuff, but the head bigger than a watermelon) a pretty successful with the first crossing of the Channel between Dover and Calais with a flight of 36 km starting 10 000 meter altitude. What you an idea of the performance of such carbon wing.

Swiss Yves Rossi of his condition and he developed several models that evolve from single rigid wing in recent years. In 2004 he created the jet-pack which consists of a wing of three meters with mini-scale reactors (see article in).

After being called 'Airman' then 'Jetman', the Swiss now bears the name 'Fusionman' ... Although assisted by 4 reactors of 2 pounds each, Yves Rossy achieved his wing now with speeds of 300 kph and was even able to go back nearly 30 °.

What future for this type of theft? For now the area's pioneers.
Use of this wing is difficult to popularize for recreational use today, but tomorrow? "
But I think the emotions are there thanks to speed on track and important for the engine thrust, and I kiffer well try this type of gear.