British Special Forces to use strap-on wings?

mike · #1 06-07-2006, 06:49 AM

Now tell me this wouldn’t be a great recruiting tool? Sign up for the special forces and you will be a real life Superman.

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Elite special forces troops being dropped behind enemy lines on covert missions are to ditch their traditional parachutes in favour of strap-on stealth wings.

The lightweight carbon fibre mono-wings will allow them to jump from high altitudes and then glide 120 miles or more before landing - making them almost impossible to spot, as their aircraft can avoid flying anywhere near the target.

The technology was demonstrated in spectacular fashion three years ago when Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner - a pioneer of freefall gliding - famously 'flew' across the English Channel, leaping out of an aircraft 30,000ft above Dover and landing safely near Calais 12 minutes later.

Wearing an aerodynamic suit, and with a 6ft wide wing strapped to his back, he soared across the sea at 220mph, moving six feet forward through the air for every one foot he fell vertically - and opened his parachute 1,000ft above the ground before landing safely.

eddiev9 · #2 06-07-2006, 09:27 AM

Cool! That looks really fun...and really scary, too!

I can already see the commercials with R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly" or 3 Doors Down's "Kryptonite" song in the background.

sejongeb · #3 06-07-2006, 09:41 AM

This wing looks extremely cool, but the title of the thread could be misleading

eddiev9 · #4 06-07-2006, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by sejongeb

...the title of the thread could be misleading

LOL!!!!!

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