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Mon Apr 27, 2015 10:01 am

Wingsuit Reentry Back Into A Porter!

Here's video of Jeb Corliss trying to fly a wingsuit BACK INSIDE a Pilatus Porter. :shock:

https://www.facebook.com/jeb.corliss/videos/933428106700143/


Here's the video of the only time it has actually been done (as far as I know). Performed by Patrick de Gayardon .
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Mon Apr 27, 2015 5:50 pm

Re: Wingsuit Reentry Back Into A Porter!

Prolly best not to overshoot--could wind up as wingsuit burger going through the prop. Of course, with enough skill and daring and speed, he could probably go between the blades. :shock:

Anybody else think these wingsuiters are nutso?

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Mon Apr 27, 2015 8:18 pm

Re: Wingsuit Reentry Back Into A Porter!

You say nutso like it's a bad thing.....

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Tue Apr 28, 2015 8:57 am

Re: Wingsuit Reentry Back Into A Porter!

Anyone remember the movie Goldeneye? James Bond rode a motorcycle off a dam and free-flew into a Porter and pulled it out of a dive in the nick of time (of course). Don't know how much of the free-flying was phonied up, but it made for a cool scene in the movie.
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Tue Apr 28, 2015 9:40 am

Re: Wingsuit Reentry Back Into A Porter!

Ha ! That's my old Porter 9SA. Sold of to Skydive Az awhile ago . I believe it now lives in Italy .
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Tue Apr 28, 2015 3:35 pm

Re: Wingsuit Reentry Back Into A Porter!

GumpAir wrote:You say nutso like it's a bad thing.....

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Well, yeah, that's what I meant.

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Wed Apr 29, 2015 4:30 pm

Re: Wingsuit Reentry Back Into A Porter!

Seems like wearing a helmet wouldn't have been a bad idea, just saying. :shock:
What a concept, a totally useless feat but cool nonetheless.
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Wed Apr 29, 2015 5:08 pm

Re: Wingsuit Reentry Back Into A Porter!

Seems like wearing a helmet wouldn't have been a bad idea, just saying


If he screwed the pooch on this, a helmet probably would not have helped much. :shock:
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Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:36 pm

Re: Wingsuit Reentry Back Into A Porter!

Nutso as in "they're all dead". The guy that made it back in pancaked a couple years later in Hawaii, his partner shortly thereafter, the guy in the other James Bond movie too. About 25 per year, worse odds than airshow flying. Jeb Corliss clipped Table Mtn near Capetown and badly broke both legs, but still wants to give the grim reaper another shot, so he's still in the running.
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Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:50 pm

Re: Wingsuit Reentry Back Into A Porter!

Maybe the wing suit is a Darwinian thing. 8)
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Thu Apr 30, 2015 1:38 pm

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http://www.blincmagazine.com/forum/wiki/BASE_Fatality_List
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Mon May 18, 2015 12:23 am

Re: Wingsuit Reentry Back Into A Porter!

Just heard Dean Potter and Graham Hunt were killed in a wing suit jump yesterday at Yosemite. If any of you Backcountry pilots ever made it into Chuck Burchill's strip at Homathko at the top end of Bute inlet, he may have shown you the aluminum ramp he built for Dean Potter's jump.

Video of Dean's jump from Bute Mountain.



And a video of going in and around the Homathko strip.
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