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The Icarus Report: French Flies

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Tuesday, August 22, 2006. A question posed by the Icarus Report on May 3rd, 2006. Heilmann has also recently published an article in Paramag. On another note, I'd like to point out that an article I wrote about for Popular Mechanics about Visa Parviainen (who strapped jet engines to his ankles and flew horizontally for 30 seconds in his wingsuit) seems to have slipped under the radar of the skyflying community. You can read it here. DBCooper' had a dark overcoat over a business suit. ya think? One Skydiv...

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The Icarus Report: Chuteless Again!

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Tuesday, August 08, 2006. Yesterday, for what seems to have been the seventh time in history, a man leapt out of an airplane without a parachute (of his own volition, one must add) met another skydiver sometime in freefall, attached the chute that was handed him, opened it and made it to the ground without injury. That man, (shown here making some humdrum jump with. More details about Dachtler's jump to follow. Remember, you heard it here first, at the Icarus Report. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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The Icarus Report: April 2006

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Sunday, April 30, 2006. The opposable thumb, the large brain, the fire: These things have helped us conquer and surpass numerous inferior creatures. I mean, we get silk from worms, burn ants at our leisure, tell elephants what to do. And yet the feathered beings of our world lord it over us (most of them, anyway). Always swooping and gliding and diving and climbing. Ever looked a seagull in they eye? Fly about together, and, with luck, enter the Guinness Book of World Records (for the greatest number of ...

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The Icarus Report: Young Bird Delays Blog

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Monday, June 12, 2006. Young Bird Delays Blog. Wingsuiters, groud-bound readers, flight-minded folk, and stray stumblers,. Please forgive the delay. I have been busy bringing my own new egg into the world (will resist the temptation to put photos here). Meanwhile, the history of personal flight marches on. Please check out the supposed first military batwings. Http:/ www.travelersinsynch.com/lc advertising.html. That young bird sounds like a cute chick! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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The Icarus Report: May 2006

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Friday, May 26, 2006. People, I need your help. The picture here, it seems, shows one Cecil MacKenzie. The photo appeared in Canadian Geographic. With the following text: " May 24, 1912. Might as well jump:. So this is a call to all wingsuiters, all parachutists, and all Canadians: Help me find something, anything, about Cecil MacKenzie, who had some of the coolest wings in the long history of birdmen. On another note: The book ( Birdmen, Batmen, and Skyflyers. Tuesday, May 23, 2006. This, again, is than...

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The Icarus Report: Fatal Subtraction

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Thursday, August 10, 2006. Where, you ask, do these numbers come from? And I answer thusly: From a book called Parachuting Folklore. By Michael Horan. On page 76 of that work we find the following:. Roy "Red" Grant, self proclaimed as the last of the birdmen, estimates there were never more than seventy-five of these characters. He figures three quit the business, he is alive and the rest of the batmen made a big hole in the ground.". Were two of the original batmen (can you see where this is going?

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The Icarus Report: September 2006

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Saturday, September 09, 2006. Stop, Drop, and Roll. Repeat as Necessary. Why is this man running? One explanation is that he, Jay Stokes. Is in a hurry to get from his parachute to a plane so he can go back up in the sky and jump out again, land, and hurry to get from his parachute to a plane, so he can go back up in the sky, etc. I'd have said ad infinitum. But Stokes seems to have stopped after the 641st time. Other points of interest:. As for the question Stokes is asked all too often—"Why? And has wr...

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Paralog® Skydiving Logbook - Special Usages

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Special usages of Paralog. The fourth final event of the 'Wingsuit Performance World Series 2014'. In Elsinore was judged with Paralog and the Paralog Performance Competition. The third event of the 'Wingsuit Performance World Series 2014'. Will be held in Marl August 29. Judged with Paralog and the Paralog Performance Competition. Were supported by Paralog and the Paralog Performance Competition. Hungarian Wingsuit Competition 2014'. Was judged with Paralog and the Paralog Performance Competition. Was j...

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The Icarus Report: Durand Durand

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Wednesday, May 03, 2006. In the first photo we have Jean Durand, "Stunt Flyer," standing in front of a Standard J-1—a shot taken in 1928. Below it Jean Durand poses on a windy day in his bat-wings (photo provided by Francis Heilmann). Same man? I'm guessing so, but the Jean Durand in the wings was French and "Stunt Flyer" is decidedly English. Was he on a tour of the U.S? Flying the J-1 or jumping out of it? Very best site. Keep working. Will return in the near future. Keep up the good work. Thanks.