"David McArthur" wrote in message
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http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/com...841794%5E401,0
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Rob

I saw video of this guy flying his rig on ABC news. Jumped from
somewhere
around 30K using oxygen and a specially heated suit.

Since we were discussing glide ratios earlier, I fail to believe he
would have
made it that far if his wing set-up was made of lead. He'd have been
feeding
the sharks at the bottom of the channel faster then a speeding bullet.


Oh, and he almost "kilt" his own crazy self at the end of the flight
when some
of his parachute cords got all tangled up, but it looked like a pretty
cool
ride.


I wonder if there's a military application for this Eg. Special Ops
teams being dropped up to 30 miles from their tgt???

Absolutely.

I remember reading an article a few months ago about exactly this kind of
thing being developed for special forces teams. Except the military units
were said to incorporate low-observable technologies into the design of the
wings.

If I remember where I read it, I will post it.