Squirrel Flare Power

Wingsuits, going up. For more info, visit www.squirrel.ws
A note on altitude gain measurements: Calculations are estimates based on multiple camera angles and, in some cases, GPS track logs.

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  • @alistairclark6814
    @alistairclark68143 жыл бұрын

    Still the most profound video of wingsuit flights ever made. Respect.

  • @phutton88
    @phutton883 жыл бұрын

    As A new wingsuiter that's getting jumps in the intermediate suit range and is lacking confidence while flocking and back flying and flaring, this is super inspiring to watch! Y'all are gods and fucking rad! Thanks for paving the way!

  • @DavidDaVinci
    @DavidDaVinci4 жыл бұрын

    I was searching for this video recently, and couldn't find it. Glad to see it got posted again!

  • @JonnyClark
    @JonnyClark11 ай бұрын

    Still one of the best video's out there.

  • @JasonAndrewsUK
    @JasonAndrewsUK4 жыл бұрын

    Great video, deserves more views this time.

  • @marcmarc172
    @marcmarc17210 ай бұрын

    Finally! Exactly what I was looking for. I will do this one day.

  • @ephraim9976
    @ephraim99763 жыл бұрын

    Wow. So if you time it super-duper perfectly, you should be able to land without parachutes?

  • @Darrylx444

    @Darrylx444

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yep, into boxes at least. kzread.info/dash/bejne/dnmEmsyugraogtI.html

  • @whatever-tp2ek

    @whatever-tp2ek

    3 жыл бұрын

    they just need one volunteer to land without parachute .

  • @seewhyaneyesee

    @seewhyaneyesee

    3 жыл бұрын

    Depends largely on the surface you're landing on. Highly risky though as controlling vertical speed is not about instinct only. It is largely research and practice. Kinda like landing a plane without the help of the instruments guages. More harder cause there ain't no flaps neither a landing gear.

  • @nicolashenriquez1912
    @nicolashenriquez19124 жыл бұрын

    Dude this people is insane why it’s not 10.000.000 views or more, amazing

  • @Seb.chartrand

    @Seb.chartrand

    4 жыл бұрын

    Cant believe either!

  • @jourdanduplessis7111
    @jourdanduplessis71116 ай бұрын

    Le son….🙌🏿waou🤙🏾

  • @soliv27
    @soliv273 жыл бұрын

    What would be awesome, I don't think you did not think about something like this, is to grap some (long) rope ladder fixed under a balloon... Or why not landing over a net stretched at the top of a canyon... it could be under it, coming from below, rising vertically then grap the net with your hands and feet. Real Batman.. Anyway that feeling to stand still for a point moment in the air, no move no sound, this must be ecstatic 😊

  • @ghgghgyuhkljjijijui
    @ghgghgyuhkljjijijui3 жыл бұрын

    this will get over a million views.By the way making Otto Lilienthal proud.

  • @nick.3455

    @nick.3455

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not looking good so far

  • @albertosins6211
    @albertosins62114 жыл бұрын

    What type of wingsuit is that??

  • @heartsky
    @heartsky Жыл бұрын

    Here's one: if there were a pond on the other side of canyon, could time it just right where after apex free fall into pond with minimum momentum, no chute needed. Seems possible to do this where a parachute isn't needed.

  • @Silverwidows
    @Silverwidows3 жыл бұрын

    Song?

  • @jimmyrh247
    @jimmyrh2473 жыл бұрын

    Anyone know roughly what the minimum forward speed is at the top of the altitude gain is? I'm thinking about the feasibility of flaring up out of the canyon to land (without parachute) somehow on the rim. Of course, straight skydiving into a giant net has been done, and so has wingsuit "crash landing" into a big pile of cardboard boxes. But does this level of flaring make landing into a giant inflatable stunt mat possible, for example? Sounds f***ing crazy, I know, but then so does landing in cardboard boxes! If it's possible, sooner or later some crazy mf will give it a shot...

  • @phutton88

    @phutton88

    3 жыл бұрын

    I hope no one ever tries that, especially my personal friends, without a justifiable amount of ground preparation.

  • @dogpak5357

    @dogpak5357

    Жыл бұрын

    My rough guess (I have over 1000 wingsuit flights both in BASE and skydiving) is that at the apex of their flare, their forward speed is still probably between 40-60 mph. We can measure our horizontal and vertical speeds using a Flysight GPS, and often do to gain a better understanding of our flight metrics, so we do regularly measure such things. The difference here is that usually we don't hold the flare so long because once you hit the stall point, weird things can start happening and it can also create an unstable parachute opening sequence.

  • @scottjulius2834
    @scottjulius28343 жыл бұрын

    Make this a competition and do it every year. Please!

  • @gaaligadu148

    @gaaligadu148

    2 жыл бұрын

    There isn't a regular official competition but there's a website where wingsuiters post their flysight data to compare their flares

  • @lohphat
    @lohphat Жыл бұрын

    How close to zero vertical and lateral speed can you get to at the end of a flare? The only figures I can find on the best suit is a 3:1 glide ratio and minimum vertical speed of 40kph. But that still means 100-120kph lateral velocity -- too fast for a water landing. I've seen the wingsuit stunt landing on boxes instead of pulling the chute, but could you, in an emergency, do a low-level flare over a body of water and flare to a safe falling height into the water (using an inflatable life vest, just in case you take on too much water). Would there be any useful ground effect at that speed and weight?

  • @sergeig685

    @sergeig685

    11 ай бұрын

    vertical speed can be zero or positive.

  • @nowherefool5869
    @nowherefool58692 жыл бұрын

    is possible to do an "air brake" mid flare, by changing the body's angle to mitigate lift and forward motion, by maximizing drag? ie : rise to a flare, to drop forward speed, but continue changing body angle leaning more backwards to maximize drag as to mitigate as much lift and forward speed, as much as possible, before it stalls and you fall diagonally 3 meters from the ground and do a roll landing.

  • @Lellena94

    @Lellena94

    Жыл бұрын

    No. As you dont have backwards momentum. You ll always glide forward, however minimal it may be, is enough to break your legs. Maybe if they land in a net or something

  • @nowherefool5869

    @nowherefool5869

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Lellena94 > you don't have backwards momentum you mean drag? vertical fall + drag = terminal velocity however, lateral motion isn't accelerated by gravity. that's why drag racing parachutes work.

  • @Lellena94

    @Lellena94

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nowherefool5869 i meant , despite your flare, at the apex of the flare, you d still have forward speed. Thus you d land and roll, and i doubt the ankles would survive that.

  • @nowherefool5869

    @nowherefool5869

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Lellena94 hmm.. assuming that the apex is around 9 meters above ground, how much lateral drag can the surface area of a wingsuit get? iirc, drag racing parachutes are much smaller compared to skydiving parachutes. a fall from 6-9 meters apex is most likely survivable (many parkour enthusiasts can jump down from that easy), if the lateral drag can drop your speed to around 40kph before you do a rolling landing (survivable speed jumping from a moving vehicle), i think there's a slim chance to walk away from that. especially if your parachutes failed and there's no net and this was your only option.

  • @dogpak5357

    @dogpak5357

    Жыл бұрын

    I appreciate how you're thinking about this. Yes, you can use your body as an air brake. A flare usually is a form of airbraking. For a maximally efficient flare, you need to keep your Angle of Attack as close to 0 as possible (slightly higher than 0) and at a constant throughout the duration of the flare. However, you can also do less efficient flares where you deliberately increase your AoA in order to decrease your horizontal speed (which we do usually before deploying the parachute, because deploying at full speed hurts and can cause damage to the gear or result in less than ideal parachute deployment). In that scenario, you are using your chest, head, shoulders, thighs, etc as an airbrake. So yes, you can adjust your body position relative to the relative wind in order to add more parasitic drag and decrease horizontal speed. However, you are still going way too fast to do what you're thinking about (like landing without a parachute and rolling it out).

  • @aA-iv5fg
    @aA-iv5fg3 жыл бұрын

    Wooooow

  • @gabrielamoron4761
    @gabrielamoron47614 жыл бұрын

    que aventura

  • @CommonCentrist82
    @CommonCentrist822 жыл бұрын

    Once you flare, the flying is done right? You stall out correct? I'm just asking, if you can go back into a horizontal descent after stalling like that.

  • @centrywt912

    @centrywt912

    Жыл бұрын

    If you are high enough you can continue normlay

  • @dogpak5357

    @dogpak5357

    Жыл бұрын

    depends how long you hold the flare for, but in this video, yes they are reaching a stall point because they are deliberately holding the flare as long as they can to see how much altitude gain is possible. In a skydive with more altitude, you could flare, stall, and then use gravity to fall long enough to regain flight (and start creating lift again) and then it's just another flight. But in this video, since they are already flying and pulling low, they wouldn't have enough altitude to do that safely.

  • @meusangueepurosempfizer1259
    @meusangueepurosempfizer1259Ай бұрын

    Top

  • @videostarish
    @videostarish2 жыл бұрын

    Nice...!! How about landing into a giant net hung vertically, like a spider's web...? 🤔👍

  • @JUMPER-bn4ib
    @JUMPER-bn4ib2 жыл бұрын

    my dream

  • @kabukiman2153
    @kabukiman2153 Жыл бұрын

    I'm not sure I understand what's amazing about this. Are they somehow going higher than their starting position?

  • @dogpak5357

    @dogpak5357

    Жыл бұрын

    They are flying their bodies with some extra fabric, without any source of thrust, and they are able to fly these wingsuits so efficiently that they actually can create enough lift to generate a couple hundred feet of altitude gain. For a long time, that was thought impossible, but these days wingsuit technology and our understanding/skill of flying means we can now flare so efficiently that we can gain altitude, despite having no source of thrust (just using gravity).

  • @whatever-tp2ek
    @whatever-tp2ek4 жыл бұрын

    soon they will be able to land without parachute

  • @alexkolesen3765

    @alexkolesen3765

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's exactly what I thought.

  • @alistairneal8356

    @alistairneal8356

    3 жыл бұрын

    Forward velocity...

  • @whatever-tp2ek

    @whatever-tp2ek

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@alistairneal8356 they can reduce the foward velocity by flying verticaly

  • @alistairneal8356

    @alistairneal8356

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@whatever-tp2ek they can reduce it, but they're still moving forward pretty fast at the apex of the climb

  • @Silverwidows

    @Silverwidows

    3 жыл бұрын

    they've done that already. Onto tons of boxes, and onto water

  • @Renwoxing13
    @Renwoxing1311 ай бұрын

    If and when these get implemented into the military I can almost guarantee you that : *”COINCIDENTALLY” A Whole Bunch of Them Turned Up Missing !* By missing I mean in the foreign post system in some random country being sent back to their address at home ! Lol !

  • @Channel-io1di
    @Channel-io1di10 ай бұрын

    Nice audio mix. Can't hear shit.