The Wingpack

Wingpack

A jet-powered wingpack

Another variation on which studies are being focused is the so-called wingpack, which consists of a strap-on rigid wing in carbon fibre^. It is a mix between hang-glider and a wingsuit. The wingpack can reach a glide ratio of 6 and permits transportation of oxygen bottles and other material^.
On July 31, 2003 an Austrian, Felix Baungartner, jumping from 29,360 ft (9 km), successfully crossed the English Channel in 14 minutes using a wingpack, having covered over 35 km (21.8 mi)^.
In 2006, the German enterprise Gryphon, introduced  a wingpack specifically destined for the secret incursions of the special forces

WiSBASE

Since 2003 many BASE jumpers have started using wingsuits, giving birth to WiSBASE, regarded by some as the future of BASE jumping and the best course of development of wingsuit flying.
Among the main places where the WiSBASE practice in Europe is reported Kjerag and Trollstigen in Norway, Lauterbrunner in Switzerland, and Monte Brento in Italy, with the landing field near Dro.
One technique, risky and spectacular, is proximity flying, which is flying close to the faces and ridges of mountains. On July 1, 2011 near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland, Jeb Corliss became the first man to fly through a waterfall wearing a wingsuit Apache. In 1999, Corliss had a near-fatal BASE jump into a waterfalls where the chute opening went asymmetric and he could not avoid flying into Howich Falls

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WINGSUITS

Wingsuits in flight

Wingsuit flying is the sport of flying the human body through the air using a special jumpsuit, called a wingsuit, which adds surface area to the human body to enable a significant increase in lift. Modern wingsuits, first developed in the late 1990s, create the surface area with fabric between the legs and under the arms. A wingsuit may be referred to as a birdman suit, flying squirrel suit or bat suit.
A wingsuit flight ends with a parachute opening, so a wingsuit can be flown from any point that provides sufficient altitude to glide through the air, such as skydiving aircraft or BASE jumping exit points, and to allow a parachute to deploy.
The wingsuit flier wears parachutes equipment designed for skydiving or BASE jumping. The flier deploys the parachute at a planned altitude and unzips the arm wings, if necessary, so they can reach up to the control toggles and fly to a normal parachute landing.