ACHIEVEMENT
- Yves Rossy became the first person to fly using an experimental “flying wing” although this is currently commercial viable due to cost constraints. He’s achievement with eight-minute flight over Swiss Alps made headlines around the world.
- On July 24, 2008, Glenn Singleman, an Australian doctor, set the world record for the highest jump in a wingsuit, when he jumped from 37, 000 feet (11.27 km) over central Australia.
- On September 24, 2010, Japanese wingsuit pilot Shin Ito (Birdman inc “Top Gun” Team) set Guinness World Records flight over the suburbs of Davis, California. At the altitude 34,620 ft (10,550m) MSL 33,430 ft (10.180m) AGL by PAC750XL, he flew the horizontal distance of 10.19 miles (16.4 km). Total flight distance 11.68 miles (18.8 km), straight line distance 10.87 miles (17.5 km) from exit point to landing point. Free fall time was 4 minutes and 57 seconds. The Max horizontal speed was 177.7 mph (286 km/h).
- The greatest unofficial record horizontal distance flown in a wingsuit is 20.45 km (12.7 mi) by Alvaro Bulto, Santi Corella and Toni Lopez. The three Spaniards crossed the Strait of Gibraltar on June 23, 2005, after jumping from an aircraft at an altitude of 35,000 ft (10.67 km).
- The largest wingsuit formation officially recognized as meeting the criteria for a national record consisted of 68 jumpers in an arrowhead formation which set a US National Record at Lake Elsinore, California, on 12 November 2009.
- The largest unofficial record was a B-2 formation involving 71 jumpers at Lake Elsinore, California, in November 2008.
- The longest verified WiSBASE jump is 5.8 km (3.6 mi) by Dean Potteron August, 2009. Potter jumped from Eiger and had spent 2 minutes and 50 seconds in flight, covering 7,900 ft (2.4 km) of altitude.
- The movie Transformers: Dark of the Moon features an extended scene of wingmen starting their decent from the apex of the Willis Tower after jumping out of v-22 Ospreys and flying between the skyscrapers of downtown Chicago. The scene was filmed using actual wingsuit stuntmen with cameras equipped on their heads.
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