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It also offered the highly spectacular discipline of wingsuit flying.

Wingsuit flying is one of the most challenging of the world’s extreme sports.

Anyone wanting to try wingsuit flying must complete 200 conventional skydives to qualify for a training course.

It is not clear, though, whether the more recent sport of wingsuit flying fits under the definition of free fall skydiving.

If parachuting and BASE jumping seem too sedate, you might consider wingsuit flying.

The sport of Wingsuit flying is dangerous, and the pursuit of it has contributed to a number of notable fatalities since its inception.

Part One of the feature is purely tracking whilst Part Two is Wingsuit flying.

Mr Sutton, who wowed crowds as 007 at the Olympics opening ceremony, fell 10,000ft to his death in Switzerland last month while wingsuit flying.

Also inspired by Corliss, she began wingsuit flying, which involves jumping from an aircraft wearing a jumpsuit with webbed wings similar to a flying squirrel.

Wind shear or wind gradients are a threat to parachutists, particularly to BASE jumping and wingsuit flying.

His antics are showcased in a new 3D film on skydiving, BASE jumping, wingsuit flying and Skyaking.

Parafoils see wide use in a variety of windsports such as kite flying, powered parachutes, paragliding, speed flying, wingsuit flying and skydiving.

Wingsuit flying uses a special jumpsuit that has fabric between the legs and under the arms, adding surface area and creating lift, which allows the wearer to safely "fly."

But this is getting to be old hat for Fadnes, who last year won an international competition for wingsuit flying, earning him the sobriquet of the world's fastest flying human.

Wingsuit flying is an extremely hazardous sport where participants glide through the air wearing a specially constructed suit with fabric under the arms and legs to slow the rate of descent.

Wingsuit flying (or wingsuiting) is the sport of flying through the air using a wingsuit, which adds surface area to the human body to enable a significant increase in lift.

Action cameras are associated with outdoor sports, and, often attached to helmets, surfboards or handlebars, are an integral part of many extreme sports such as base jumping and wingsuit flying.

Longest time and highest altitude On 20 and 21 April 2012, Colombian skydiver Jhonathan Florez set Guinness World Records in wingsuit flying.

Jumping off a cliff 4,593 above sea level is all a part of the game for the men and women participating in this year’s Wingsuit Flying World Championship in Zhangjiajie, China.

At the time, the sport of skydiving was in its infancy, yet the film featured an extreme variation of the sport, the use of "batwings", a precursor to modern wingsuit flying.

For those who decided skydiving was no longer a thrill, wingsuit flying was introduced and is quickly becoming a sought-after extreme sport thanks to action flicks like Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon.

Stuntman Steve Truglia told the BBC today that wingsuit flying is a "thrilling activity" that turns someone into "a flying fox," but a much more dangerous activity than traditional skydiving.

Reasons for the decline include the rise in popularity of freeflying and wingsuit flying, the hazards associated with flying and releasing the board, and the dwindling number of experienced skysurfers to train new pilots.

The school offers formation skydiving courses for beginners and advanced students, freefly canopy, wingsuit flying (or wingsuiting), formation skydiving for top competition, training for top competition, and flight instruction for professionals.

It was the first jump of the day for the group of 17 skydivers, who had travelled from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane for a weekend of wingsuit flying, an extreme form of skydiving that is still relatively new in Australia.