A one-piece garment that enables a person to glide through the air when in free fall, having sections of fabric between the arms and legs that inflate when the wearer jumps from an aircraft or a high place.
he jumped out of a helicopter wearing nothing but a wingsuit and landed safely
as modifierdaredevil wingsuit flyers
Example sentencesExamples
Some experienced foreign jumpers displayed hand-in-hand group jumping, wingsuit jumping and somersaults during free fall; all the risky stunts thrilled the audience.
Then he fired up the jets on his new, smaller and sleeker wingsuit to perform the loopings before landing safely with a parachute.
Now, this sport is officially called Wingsuit proximity flying.
Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy completes two aerial loops using just his custom-made jet-propelled wingsuit.
Therefore flying with a SKYRAY is totally different than Wingsuit flying.
Base jumping involves the sequenced use of a wingsuit and parachute to jump from fixed objects.
It takes 200 skydives before you can even try flying a wingsuit, but the record-breaking international team each had at least double that number.
Later that afternoon, Harrington jumped again to celebrate the new record with four other wingsuit fliers.
One hundred wingsuit skydivers fall to earth in a diamond formation during a world record attempt above Perris Valley in Southern California.
The wingsuit can triple the length of a normal skydiving freefall from 60 seconds to over three minutes.
And though he said he will not give up wingsuit diving, Donohue said the accident made him briefly reconsider his future in the sport.
Definition of wingsuit in US English:
wingsuit
nounˈwiNGˌso͞ot
A one-piece garment that enables a person to glide through the air when in free fall, having sections of fabric between the arms and legs that inflate when the wearer jumps from an aircraft or a high place.
he jumped out of a helicopter wearing nothing but a wingsuit and landed safely
as modifierdaredevil wingsuit flyers
Example sentencesExamples
Later that afternoon, Harrington jumped again to celebrate the new record with four other wingsuit fliers.
Therefore flying with a SKYRAY is totally different than Wingsuit flying.
Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy completes two aerial loops using just his custom-made jet-propelled wingsuit.
Then he fired up the jets on his new, smaller and sleeker wingsuit to perform the loopings before landing safely with a parachute.
Some experienced foreign jumpers displayed hand-in-hand group jumping, wingsuit jumping and somersaults during free fall; all the risky stunts thrilled the audience.
Now, this sport is officially called Wingsuit proximity flying.
Base jumping involves the sequenced use of a wingsuit and parachute to jump from fixed objects.
And though he said he will not give up wingsuit diving, Donohue said the accident made him briefly reconsider his future in the sport.
It takes 200 skydives before you can even try flying a wingsuit, but the record-breaking international team each had at least double that number.
The wingsuit can triple the length of a normal skydiving freefall from 60 seconds to over three minutes.
One hundred wingsuit skydivers fall to earth in a diamond formation during a world record attempt above Perris Valley in Southern California.