Wingsuits

Austria's Peter Salzmann powers through the air in his 300-km/h, twin-impeller electric wingsuit

Aircraft

Dawn of a new extreme sport: The world's first electric wingsuit

Ever since wingsuit flying took off as an extreme sport around the year 2000, people have been wondering if it'd be possible to stick a motor on one, and give it the ability to accelerate and climb. The answer is yes, as you'll see in this video.

Fraser Corsan, a pioneer in the sport, is preparing to break four of the biggest records in wingsuit flying: height, speed, distance and duration

Sports

Flying Brit plans to soar past four major wingsuit world records

A British wingsuit jumper is planning an assault on no less than four of the biggest world records in the sport. Jumping from a height over 40,000 feet, he aims to break the distance record of 19-odd miles, the top speed record of more than 250mph and the duration record of 9 minutes.

The Flight HUD adapts Recon hardware toward skydiving, BASE jumping and wingsuit flying

Outdoors

Recon Instruments' GPS goggles go skydiving

Recon Instruments has released a goggle-mounted performance computer for skydiving, BASE jumping and wingsuit flying.

Picture courtesy of World Wingsuit League

Aircraft

A new sport evolves as the World Wingsuit League begins

The hyper-spectacular sport of wingsuit flying is ideally suited to television. Hence, it's not surprising that the the World Wingsuit League will hold its first Grand Prix on October 13-14 in Hunan, China.