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Old May 28th 04, 06:12 PM
chuck
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Subject: A guy in a wingsuit goes mountain surfing
From: Martin Hotze
Date: 5/28/04 10:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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Secret Service agents questioned a high-school student here about anti-war
drawings he turned in to his art teacher.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...rosser27m.html

Let me guess, John Walker Lindh's younger brother? Any threat expressed or
implied against a President is cause for investigation. Scary world out there.
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Old May 28th 04, 06:31 PM
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It's Loic Jean Albert, alot of planning into this jump. As far as I know
the ratio of the slope is steeper than his glide ratio. Very impressive.



It would have been a slightly messier video otherwise wouldn't it ?


;-)


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Old May 28th 04, 06:44 PM
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HECTOP wrote:

I admit to being a wuffo, but this is breathtaking!

http://www.maxho.com/videos/wingsuit.wmv (Windows Media 9 .wmv 4.15Mb)

Does anyone know who/when/where this is? Someone sent me the video, but no
other info.

HECTOP
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http://www.maxho.com
maxho_at_maxho.com



That is absolutely , errrrm...breathtaking! Kids these days! I hope I
could live long enough to see how this evolves as a general sport.

Mankind! As Flying Squirrels!

Useful? Wow,time will tell..after reading the "Rutan" thread...some
people just can't see their nose, even VFR.

Thanks, HECTOP!

~D
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Old May 28th 04, 08:19 PM
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"HECTOP" ha scritto nel messaggio
news
I admit to being a wuffo, but this is breathtaking!

http://www.maxho.com/videos/wingsuit.wmv (Windows Media 9 .wmv 4.15Mb)

Does anyone know who/when/where this is? Someone sent me the video, but no
other info.



SOUL FLYERS the video

http://www.para-mag.com/archives/dir...93/direct.html


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Old May 28th 04, 10:29 PM
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Anyone seen this ? Any good ? Anyone translate that Frenchie stuff into
Anglais ?

JJ
"peter p@n" wrote in message
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"HECTOP" ha scritto nel messaggio
news
I admit to being a wuffo, but this is breathtaking!

http://www.maxho.com/videos/wingsuit.wmv (Windows Media 9 .wmv 4.15Mb)

Does anyone know who/when/where this is? Someone sent me the video, but

no
other info.



SOUL FLYERS the video

http://www.para-mag.com/archives/dir...93/direct.html




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Old May 28th 04, 10:33 PM
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"John Jordan" wrote in message
Anyone seen this ? Any good ? Anyone translate that Frenchie stuff into
Anglais ?


http://babelfish.altavista.com

HECTOP
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maxho_at_maxho.com


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Old May 29th 04, 10:47 AM
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This seems to be Felix Baumgartner, he's from Austria.

also crossed the Canal in a jump suite.

see his website: http://www.felixbaumgartner.com/



Felix does a wonderful job promoting is sponsors product. He's a real pro
when it comes to this.
But does he have the ability to perform incredible pioneering jumps?????? He
always seems the be the first / best at doing things that many others have
already done!!!!

Loic on the other hand, IS A BONA FIDE talent. He has results on the board.


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Old May 29th 04, 10:09 PM
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When I click on the link all I get is an error message in Windows Media
saying "Reached the end of the file". Any help for a novice (computer
user) would be appreciated.

MikeW

"HECTOP" wrote in message
news
I admit to being a wuffo, but this is breathtaking!

http://www.maxho.com/videos/wingsuit.wmv (Windows Media 9 .wmv

4.15Mb)

Does anyone know who/when/where this is? Someone sent me the video,

but no
other info.


HECTOP
PP-ASEL-IA
http://www.maxho.com
maxho_at_maxho.com




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Old May 29th 04, 10:54 PM
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All the folks downloading that video have probably exceeded his upload
quota, and his ISP has more or less turned off the website, at least
temporarily.


"MikeW" wrote in message
...
When I click on the link all I get is an error message in Windows Media
saying "Reached the end of the file". Any help for a novice (computer
user) would be appreciated.

MikeW

"HECTOP" wrote in message
news
I admit to being a wuffo, but this is breathtaking!

http://www.maxho.com/videos/wingsuit.wmv (Windows Media 9 .wmv

4.15Mb)

Does anyone know who/when/where this is? Someone sent me the video,

but no
other info.


HECTOP
PP-ASEL-IA
http://www.maxho.com
maxho_at_maxho.com






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Old May 29th 04, 11:37 PM
HECTOP
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"Kyle Boatright" wrote in message
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All the folks downloading that video have probably exceeded his upload


yup, but you can view the original at:
http://www.performancedesigns.com/pd...=ff&videoID=52
and http://www.para-mag.com/archives/dir...93/direct.html
(click on the film icon top left)

HECTOP
PP-ASEL-IA
http://www.maxho.com
maxho_at_maxho.com


 




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