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Phoenix-Fly Vampire 2 Wingsuit

The Vampire 2 made by Phoenix-Fly is a special jumpsuit used in skydiving and base-jumping that shapes the human body into an airfoil. The new sport of wingsuit flying has is the closest experience a person can have to free flight. The wingsuit flier manipulates their body to create the right amount of lift and drag increase their airtime and create horizontal trajectories.

Phoenix-Fly Vampire 2 Wingsuit
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Closest thing to real human flight
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Amazing to watch
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Long horizontal glide ratios
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Slower descent with longer airtime
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Highly maneuverable in flight
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doubles as a great halloween costume
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EXTREMELY dangerous
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Sunny D (beverage company) might sue you for being more X-TREME!!! than they are
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The typical terminal velocity of a skydiver is between 180 - 225 km/h, but while wearing a wingsuit and creating lift, velocities of 60 - 95 km/h are more typical. This allows for much longer glide ratios with 2.5:1 (horizontal:vertical) being commonplace. The typical wingsuit flier tries to maximize this ratio while piloting their way to the ground. The flier releases their parachute as they approach the ground similarly as with skydiving.

The Vampire 2 is custom-made to fit its wearer and is made from lightweight, low-drag materials. Phoenix-Fly is one of many wingsuit manufacturers, and carries a whole line of wingsuit with different designs. The Vampire 2 sells for $1250. Read more on the Phoenix-Fly manufacturer page.

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This report was started October 16, 2007 at 12:44 pm by Erik
with the last edit occurring August 7, 2009 at 11:11 pm by Hendrik Dik
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Comments

1.  avatar Erik said:

This wingsuit video was popular on digg this week. I can't get over how insane this sport is. It's awesome to watch. And to all the nay-sayers: It's real!
Oct 16, 2007 12:47pm
2.  avatar Amanie said:

This is so ridiculously ridiculous!
Oct 16, 2007 3:56pm
3.  avatar meNNis said:

This product is not dangerous... the sport of skydiving may be (is) however saying this product is dangerous is equivelant to saying that a parachute is dangerous...
Oct 18, 2007 7:13pm
4.  avatar dakalvia said:

x-treme! like a sunny D commercial
Oct 19, 2007 4:29pm
5.  avatar Whipdaddy said:

Let me know when you have a ProductWiki sanctioned field trip, I will be first in.
Nov 05, 2007 9:42pm
6.  avatar V-Dawg said:

I would like to try this too.. doesn't look easy though.
Nov 06, 2007 4:27pm
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V-Dawg

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November 6, 2007
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Pros

  • Closest thing to real human flight
  • Amazing to watch
  • Long horizontal glide ratios
  • Slower descent with longer airtime
  • Highly maneuverable in flight

Cons

  • EXTREMELY dangerous

Comments

"I would like to try this too.. doesn't look easy though."
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tyrion

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October 22, 2007
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Pros

  • Closest thing to real human flight
  • Amazing to watch
  • Long horizontal glide ratios
  • Slower descent with longer airtime
  • Highly maneuverable in flight

Cons

  • EXTREMELY dangerous

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Erik

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October 16, 2007
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Pros

  • Closest thing to real human flight
  • Amazing to watch
  • Long horizontal glide ratios
  • Slower descent with longer airtime
  • Highly maneuverable in flight

Cons

  • EXTREMELY dangerous

Comments

"This wingsuit video was popular on digg this week. I can't get over how insane this sport is. It's awesome to watch. And to all the nay-sayers: It's real!"
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Hendrik Dik

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August 7, 2009
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Pros

  • Closest thing to real human flight
  • Amazing to watch
  • Long horizontal glide ratios
  • Slower descent with longer airtime
  • Highly maneuverable in flight

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dakalvia

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October 19, 2007
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Pros

  • Closest thing to real human flight
  • Amazing to watch
  • doubles as a great halloween costume

Cons

  • EXTREMELY dangerous
  • Sunny D (beverage company) might sue you for being more X-TREME!!! than they are

Comments

"x-treme! like a sunny D commercial"
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Amanie

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October 16, 2007
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Pros

  • Closest thing to real human flight
  • Amazing to watch

Cons

  • EXTREMELY dangerous

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"This is so ridiculously ridiculous!"
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hipotecas

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November 27, 2007
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Cons

  • EXTREMELY dangerous
  • Sunny D (beverage company) might sue you for being more X-TREME!!! than they are

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GT-D

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October 16, 2007
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Pros

  • Closest thing to real human flight
  • Amazing to watch

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janac

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October 25, 2007
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Pros

  • doubles as a great halloween costume

Cons

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