I was just amazed when I watched this. Just incredible.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmZyB_ghpa0]
Here is a quote from one of the articles I read:
“Modern suit design features tightly woven nylon sewn between the legs and between the arms and torso, creating wings that fill with air and create lift, allowing for forward motion and aerial maneuvers while slowing descent. As the suits, which cost about $1,000, have become more sophisticated, so have the pilots. The best fliers, and there are not many, can trace the horizontal contours of cliffs, ridges and mountainsides.”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pzzRgsgERM]
One of these days there will be a safe affordable personal flying transportation system, this next one is quite a ways from that.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHYXrqoS08o]