HISTORY of the development of Wing suit

HISTORY of the development of Wing suit
1912

• Austrian Franz Reichelt jumps from the Eifel Tower in a winged suit.
• The result is lethal, yet it denote the start of many winged trials in the years that come.

1930

•  A few brave men, for example, Clem Sohn, Harry Ward and Leo Valentin put their mark on the discipline.
• Trying different things with new wing designs, gambling life and appendage to seek after their fantasy of flight.
• The majority of them wind up dying. In any case, move numerous eras that take after.

1994

•  Frenchman Patrick de Gayardon studies and starts a progressive wingsuit design, denoting the start of present day sky flying.
• The suits are made of fabric, with wings highlighting a bottom and top surface, connected by ribs.
• The wings inflates with air like current square parachutes.
• The suit highlights a safety framework, enabling the wings to isolate by means of a wire running down the wing and body.
•  He does some mind boggling flights at the Mont Blanc and in the Grand Canyon.

1997

•  Patrick makes the primary wingsuit BASE-hops in Kjerag, Norway and Brento, Italy utilizing a skydiving rig with a Stiletto 135 canopy.
•  Patrick is the first to fly in close proximity to the ground, passing a couple meters from l'Aiguille du Midi terasses, before journalists.
•   Patrick de Gayardon hops out of a Pilatus Porter plane and afterward flies once more into the same plane with the guide of his wingsuit.
•  Frenchman Jean-Noel Iszstein constructs a wingsuit in light of an indistinguishable idea from Patrick, and deals with upgrades together with the paraglider company ITV, and does base jumps with the wingsuit a year later.
• Frenchman Loic Jean-Albert designs a wingsuit model.
• The suit is known as an open mono-wing design, with the suit encapsulating the entire body. A minor departure from Patrick de Gayardon's '3 wing' design, showing slightly different flight characteristics.

1998

• On a nightfall jump with companion and wingsuit pilot Adrian Nicholas, Patrick de Gayardon dies due to rig modification.
• Chuck Priest of Hawaiian jumpsuit organization Da' Kine Clothes makes a wingsuit, in view of a modified design of Patrick de Gayardon.
•  Croatian jumpsuit designer Robert Pecnik designs a commercially accessible wingsuit in light of Patrick de Gayardon's wingsuit.
• Together with sales and marketing entrepreneur Jari Kuosma from Finland, Robert build the company Birdman and begin commercially offering wingsuits.
• The wingsuit highlights an updated safety cutaway for the arm wings and is known as the Birdman S.U.I.T.

 1999

•  Stephane Zunino and Loic Jean-Albert form the company Fly Your Body and begin industrially offering their wingsuit design, named the S-Fly.
• The suits have zippers to attach the suit to the rig (rather than rigging like other designs), and furthermore highlight an emergency cutaway system.
• Jari Kuosma sets out far and wide to offer the suits and inspire individuals to have a go at flying them, making a new discipline that has not quit developing from that point onward.
• With the approach of new gear for basejumping, it's likewise the year where wingsuit basejumping opens up to the public and begins to get a steadily expanding number of jumpers.
•  Francis Heilmann manufactures a wingsuit model, and over the coming years builds up a few innovative design with various materials.
•   Englishman Adrian Nicholas sets the first Guinness record utilizing a wingsuit.
•  Flying for 4:55 minutes crossing a separation of 7.5 kilometers in freefall from an altitude of 35.800 ft.