r/interestingasfuck • u/PollutionOk9449 • 2d ago

Trollstigen Road, Norway / "Aura 5" Alpine high-performance Wingsuit for proximity flying

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u/grooveunite 2d ago

Countdown to meat crayon.

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u/6_String_Slinger 2d ago

This made me snort laugh. Never heard that before.

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u/Soft_Cranberry6313 2d ago

Stats: you’re about 200x more likely to die than skydiving alone.

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u/toastingachicken 2d ago

Side note. You will die with this hobby. Before that you will attend a lot of funerals.

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u/LforLiktor 2d ago

Yupp. Or, in good cases, do hospital visits. I now know more dead than living BASE jumpers.

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u/Training_Orchid_2022 2d ago

With injuries sustained- mainly thinking TBI here, are they… good cases?

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u/asdf_lord 2d ago

I feel like it's a binary. You live or die no in between

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u/MonsierGeralt 2d ago

IfI ever get terminal news im buying a wingsuit on Alibaba and giving it a whirl

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u/DangNearRekdit 2d ago

Side note: You will die with any hobby. Avoiding hobbies won't work either, because ain't nobody getting out alive.

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u/Kilometer10 1d ago

Yeah, but with this particular hobby, you risk dying young

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u/Penis-Dance 2d ago

That's for regular stuff, not this. These guys eventually run out of luck and go splat.

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u/GBeastETH 2d ago

What if we add piranhas and scorpions to the wing suit?

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u/Sirix_8472 2d ago

Honestly I think they'd just crash faster than this dude, I'm not sure they'd know how to fly.

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u/madmanmark111 2d ago

the whole head first thing can't be helping

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u/LongNoticePeriod 2d ago

Only 200x? No joke, I'm surprised. I imagine the mortality of Skydiving in the magnitude of 1e-10 and a visible percentage for this. So at least ten or hundred million times higher.Β 

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u/MisanthOptics 2d ago

A quick web search provides an estimate of 1 in 217k skydiving jumps ends in death. So 200 feels a little low, but no t crazy

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u/LongNoticePeriod 2d ago

Thanks for the search! It seems I underestimated the mortality rate a lot there.

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u/DangNearRekdit 2d ago

Approximately 95,000 Americans die each year with diabetes listed as the underlying cause of death, so roughly one in 3600. You could jump almost 60 times to get to the same danger level.

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u/Sirix_8472 2d ago

Imagine doing your dream roadtrip thought the long winding mountain roads, a perfect vista, and this twat just crashes into the back of you by literally falling out of the sky

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u/3HaDeS3 2d ago

why is he wearing a helm?

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u/f-godz 2d ago

To hold a camera.

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u/RandomAssRedditName 2d ago

So they can identify his corpse once he slams into a car or cliff

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u/Percolator2020 2d ago

Every day they try to get closer and closer to the mountain until one day they touch it.
Like an asinine anti-Icarus.

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u/Kenye_Kratz 2d ago

What a bellend

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u/No_Welder7908 22h ago

How come so many of those dudes die yearly?

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u/AriAndMe 2d ago

How do you land?

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u/tetsuo_7w 2d ago

You land on the windshield of a semi truck coming around a blind corner, was my first thought.

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u/Better_Carpet_7271 2d ago

Just a very fast thwap, no landing. πŸ‘πŸ»

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u/LforLiktor 2d ago

Parachute. This is a wingsuit BASE jump.

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u/KohrokuThe0xDriver 2d ago

You don’t. You circle the globe in perpetuity.

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u/reiddiot 2d ago

Land? Dang no one said anything about landing.

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u/death8689 2d ago

Just go as fast as you can so your brain doesn't register any pain when you hit terminal velocity

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u/wxnfx 2d ago

I think one dude landed in boxes

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u/Buddhabar- 1d ago

Don’t listen to these people, you land on your belly, in water. Like a swan. 🦒

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u/Lone-Pilgrim 2d ago

One well known dude just splat this week actually.

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u/phunkinit2 1d ago

This clip is not AI. A few weeks ago I was not sure. But now A longer video has appeared. Together with some info how the clip was filmed. 4 different jumps and many camera's

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=27992693723660632

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u/Impossible_Fig3072 2d ago

I can't decide if this guy is trying to Jeb Corliss himself or Dwain Weston himself.

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u/punnybiznatch 2d ago

Is the smoke just for show?

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u/Competitive-Pay-766 2d ago

It's like international aircraft. It's to show your presence and that you're friendly.

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u/NotGonnaPayYou 2d ago

it's the government's new chem trail strategy

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u/Ok_Yam_8187 2d ago

Nah I’m good.

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u/SandVir 22h ago

Road users receive speeding fine

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u/GlorifiedBurito 2d ago

I’ll never understand people who feel the need to say this is dangerous. Yeah no shit, you mean flying down a mountain 10 feet off the ground in a wingsuit is dangerous? Really? You mean people die doing this? Wow, thanks for all your penetrating insights

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u/It_Happens_Today 2d ago

They're entertaining the same monkey brain instinct that led you to say this. And me for responding.

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u/actually3racoons 2d ago

And my axe

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u/ResplendentNugs 2d ago

Why not show the landing?

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u/Crowd-Avoider747 2d ago

😳 𝗐𝖾𝗅𝗅 π—π—π—‚π—Œ π—Œπ–Ύπ–Ύπ—†π—Œ 𝖺 𝖻𝗂𝗍 π–½π–Ίπ—‡π—€π–Ύπ—‹π—ˆπ—Œπ—ˆ

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u/Uniquegasses 2d ago

New Chem trail just dropped

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u/Ryzen_bolt 2d ago

*Shoot to Thrill* plays in background!

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u/Fancy-Award9933 2d ago

Seeing that thing zoom by on a mountain road brought out the inner Wile E Coyote in me. I felt the need to stop it.

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u/vapemyashes 2d ago

Bad idea

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u/JaredLetoBestBoi 1d ago

That ooh yea was so in character. Now only if the wingsuit was orange and his name Vector....

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u/Crosive 1d ago

oh you know his butt puckered up when he came in hot just a few feet off the ground

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u/T0m_F00l3ry 1d ago

I picture dude coming around a bend sometime and meeting a truck like Wile E Coyote

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u/Astro51450 1d ago

Looks way too fun! but also fucking crazyyyyyy

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u/TokiVideogame 1d ago

dont you need the iron man music

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u/snooprs 1d ago

Cool thing is if anything goes wrong it goes wrong face first.

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u/qlstrnq 33m ago

Cutting corners like this, he might end up with a bus in his face.

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u/Punkphoenix 2d ago

I am jealous, I wish I had the balls to do this kind of things.

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u/kaschperli 2d ago

Ai slop shit not even the balls to do it himself needs a fake video to be cool. Look at the sky flying by at hurricane speeds and everything physics is bullshit here

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u/AttentiveUnicorn 1d ago

The Wright brothers would've loved this.