I have seen videos where sky diver will use boogie boards and Churchill swim
fins and literally surf the air and glide. and use the swim fins for control
also there is sky surfing with snowboards attached to your feet.
later,
Terry Trimble
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----- Original Message -----
From: Howard Rudy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jimmy D. Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: James V. Bacus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Human gliders
> The movie was the Gypsy Moths (1969) Burt Lancaster, Gene Hackman.
> The Batman Skydiver Suit or Cape was tryed back in the 30's. The History
> Channel showed it on a show about parachutes. I recall reading that he
could
> not hold his arms out because air pressure would fold his arms back. So he
> was going to work on a way to mechanically hold the batwings straight out.
> Then pivot them front to back to change his glide. I don't recall if he
got it
> to work. Or if he lived through it all.
> Howard
>
>
> Jimmy D. Andrews wrote:
>
> > I saw a movie on TV about this probably 25 years ago. Skydivers were
> > "flying the cape" which was a special suit with a web between the arms
> > and torso. The problem was that a lot of them thought that they could
> > really fly, and they would forget to open their parachute. Does anybody
> > know the name of the show?
> >
> > Jimmy
> > -----------------------------------------------
> >
> > "James V. Bacus" wrote:.
> >
> > > If I remember correctly,
> > > someone else tried to do this before him with a more aggressively
designed suit and paid the ultimate price...
>
>
>
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