Loic Jean-Albert | The Flying Dude

Monday, April 14th, 2008


Check the video out here.

Loic Jean-Albert, known on YouTube as “The Flying Dude”, is an expert parachuter, and one the world’s premier SkyFlying experts. He is nominated for an Emmy award for his camera work in the above film and is currently developing and testing a wing suit that can be used without a parachute to land.

In a recent New York Times article, Jean-Albert bluntly stated, “You might do it well one time and try another time and crash and die.�

The sport of SkyFlying is exploding with popularity around the globe, although there aren’t many that are skilled enough to make the jumps yet. The United States Parachute Association requires that anyone considering a wingsuit jump would have to have completed at least 200 jumps and be accompanied by an instructor or 500 jumps to go solo.


Loic Jean-Albert as “The Flying Dude“

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Skyflying

Friday, April 4th, 2008

There is a new sport on the horizon, Skyflying. It is the art of flying the human body through the air using a special jumpsuit, called a wingsuit, that shapes the human body into an airfoil which can create lift. The wingsuit creates the airfoil shape with fabric sewn between the legs and under the arms.

Wingsuit flying appeals to skydivers and BASE jumpers because flying a wingsuit can easily increase freefall time from the average 60 second skydive up to 3 minutes of freefall time. Wingsuit pilots are constantly trying to lower their vertical speeds via different flying techniques, giving more time to experience the freedom and sensations of human flight.

For more information, check out bird-man.com

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