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Contents 1 =Need for references 2 Robert Pecnik designer of Classic wingsuit 3 WikiProject class rating 4 Nice press release? 5 Kind of strange comparison 6 Is it "flying" or "freefall"? 7 Funny but true: Wingsuit safely landed without parachute

[edit] =Need for references

It blows my mind that one of the world's recognized experts on Wingsuit flight can take the time to log in here and share a bunch of topical information, only to have it removed by someone who, as far as I can tell, has never even seen a wingsuit in person. This is indicative of all that is wrong with Wikipedia.

Which information was this? And yeah, that is the nature of wikipedia, but then you should write this person and he/she incorrectly removed the information and that it should be restored. --Costyn 11:12, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Is it just me or does this page need a little more NPOV? Unsigned

It's a great strength of wikipedia that references are needed. If an editor adds information here without references, then an editor is quite within their right to remove it. Otherwise we would have original research. --Duncan (talk) 13:28, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Robert Pecnik designer of Classic wingsuit

Will the person who keeps changing the line "BirdMan's Classic, designed by Robert Pecnik, was the first wingsuit offered to the general public." please contact me. Otherwise we will continue modifying each others contributions. My name is James Boole, please email me at james@phoenix-fly.com.

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 10:55, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nice press release?

`who would be able to carry on BirdMan's high standard of training beginners all over the skydiving world' ... looks more like a press release than an encyclopedia article. dougmc (talk) 17:17, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kind of strange comparison

BASE jumpers who fly their wingsuits in close proximity to cliff walls will experience many of the same visual sensations that a hawk would experience flying the same path

And if they hit the cliff wall, they'll experience many of the same pain sensations that a aardvark would experience impacting at the same speed. Is there any point to this "visual sensations of a hawk" statement apart from some kind of unsourced macho comparison? 86.150.52.64 (talk) 03:49, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Is it "flying" or "freefall"?

The article calls this both "flying" and "freefall", sometimes in the same sentence. Is it really referred to as both? I would have thought it would only be freefall if you don't have any artificial aerodynamic surfaces (or something like that. Of course pedantically you need to be outside the atmosphere for true freefall). A glide angle of 2.5:1 sure sounds like flying to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.199.93.54 (talk) 18:51, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Funny but true: Wingsuit safely landed without parachute

Wingsuit flyer Ray Stone jumped from a helicopter at Z-Hills with no parachute, and survived his belly landing. His only injury was a bloody nose. According to "Parachutist" magazine, it happened Sunday, 16 Mar 2008, in Zephyrhills, Florida, with the helicopter hovering 12 inches above the ground. Stone may be the first person to survive landing a chuteless wingsuit jump from an aircraft in flight... Source: U.S.Parachute Association's magazine "Parachutist" (June 2008, Vol.49, No.6, Issue 584, page 27, article by Scott Bland). (It's news, but is it substantial enough for the article page itself?) Mroam (talk) 04:54, 8 June 2008 (UTC)