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Base Jumping
Posted by Dan Wareham on June 23, 2009 in Base Jumping
Wingsuit Flyer Faster Than Speeding Plane
With nothing more than a wing-suit and helmet, base-jumper Ueli Gegenschatz - aka ‘Sputnik’ - leapt out of a plane at 14,763 feet in the air and flew unaided for 10.9 miles over Galway Bay, Ireland, beating a local plane to the airport, and earning the world record for the longest wing-suit flight in history.
Sputnik took to the challenge for the ‘Red Bull Race Against the Machine,’ beating the flight time of the airliner by 75 seconds. With a top speed of 120mph, the passenger plane took off from Inis Mor airstrip cruising at an altitude of 200ms as Ueli jumped from his sky-diving aircraft high above the island.
The Swiss adventurer flew across the Atlantic waters, soaring across the sky from above the edge of Inis Mor over Galway Bay at a gliding ratio of 1:4 meters - the ratio between height loss and distance covered - travelling an average speed of 155mph with the aid of a strong tailwind for his record breaking distance of 17.6 kilometers.
He then opened his parachute 656feet above the mainland and touched down on the runway at Connemara Regional Airport near Inverin in County Galway, clocking a time of 5 minutes and 45 seconds, which takes 7 minutes for the passenger plane to travel the same route.
The daredevil has been on a worldwide quest to find the most challenging terrains of the world to traverse the skies in his wingsuit.
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