Speed: Part 1 – Why Fly Fast? WBKS is off to a sickening start. The global Wingsuit Base Killing Season. June through September. Every year. The last two months have been horrific. It doesn’t matter if it’s your first WB jump, or your 1000th. Nobody is kill-proof. The Base Fatality List raced up to #300 […]

Welcome back to our discussion of Speed in Wingsuit BASE. In part 1, we built an academic framework defining the sensitivity of Available Lift (AL) to speed. Numerically, more speed = more AL = more life margin. The most important takeaway from Part 1: Any speed decrease can kill your Available Lift in seconds. When

Matt Gerdes submits the final installment in our 3-part Speed series; this article can also be found on topgunbase and base-book.com. This article can be read alone, but is also part 3 in a series: Part 1: Why Fly Fast? Part 2: Stability vs Drag
 Part 3: Speed to Fly One of the more important

With the recent academic interest surrounding Speed and Angle of Attack in Wingsuit BASE, I’m getting numerous questions on real-world connections between the two. Thank you for your inquiring minds… I’ll try my best to answer some of the more popular questions below… 1) Are smaller suits safer in Wingsuit BASE because they’re faster? Wow,