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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.

Pros & Cons

Pros:
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Closest thing to real human flight
+6agreedisagree

Amazing to watch
+6agreedisagree

Long horizontal glide ratios
+3agreedisagree

Slower descent with longer airtime
+3agreedisagree

Highly maneuverable in flight
+3agreedisagree

doubles as a great halloween costume
0agreedisagree

Cons:
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EXTREMELY dangerous
+5agreedisagree

Sunny D (beverage company) might sue you for being more X-TREME!!! than they are
+1agreedisagree

More information

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.

6 comments about Phoenix Fly Vampire 2 Wingsuit

1.  avatar Erik  Oct 16, 2007 12:47pm

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!
2.  avatar Amanie  Oct 16, 2007 3:56pm

This is so ridiculously ridiculous!
3.  avatar meNNis  Oct 18, 2007 7:13pm

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...
4.  avatar dakalvia  Oct 19, 2007 4:29pm

x-treme! like a sunny D commercial
5.  avatar Whipdaddy  Nov 05, 2007 9:42pm

Let me know when you have a ProductWiki sanctioned field trip, I will be first in.
6.  avatar V-Dawg  Nov 06, 2007 4:27pm

I would like to try this too.. doesn't look easy though.
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Key Features:

Manufacturer Phoenix-Fly
Price $1,250.00

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Created: 10/16/2007 - 12:44
Modified: 11/27/2007 - 22:09
Model # variations:

Phoenix, Fly, PhoenixFly