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- Base Jumping Off Cranes?
- Wingsuit base jumping death toll rises
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- Kandersteg, Switzerland: Forecast for Friday Night as of Sep. 23 10:37 AM CEST
- Kandersteg, Switzerland: Forecast for Friday as of Sep. 23 10:37 AM CEST
- Moab Utah: Current Conditions : 58.4F, Overcast - 2:27 AM MDT Sep. 23
- Kandersteg, Switzerland: Current Conditions : -4C, Cloudy - 10:00 AM CEST Sep. 23
- Arco, Italy: Current weather: Fog
- Lysebotn, Norway: Current weather: Partly cloudy skies
- Twin Falls Idaho: Current Conditions : 46F, Overcast - 1:53 AM MDT Sep. 23
- Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland: Current Conditions : 15.1C, Partly Cloudy - 10:28 AM CEST
- NASA collision avoidance system saves unconscious F-16 Pilot
- Moab Utah: Current Conditions : 83.3F, Overcast - 2:26 PM MDT Sep. 22
- Kandersteg, Switzerland: Current Conditions : -1C, Mostly Cloudy - 10:00 PM CEST Sep.
- Arco, Italy: Current weather: Clear skies
- Lysebotn, Norway: Current weather: Partly cloudy skies
- Twin Falls Idaho: Current Conditions : 51F, Light Rain - 1:53 PM MDT Sep. 22
- Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland: Current Conditions : 15.2C, Clear - 10:26 PM CEST Sep. 22
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| Posted: 23 Sep 2016 03:43 AM PDT Base Jumping Off Cranes? by admin · September 14, 2016 NMT, the UK-based crane rental company, has once again ignored policies promoted by associations such as IPAF, the CPA and ESTA and supplied a large All Terrain crane for the UK Base Jumping Championships on the Blackpool seafront between the tower and pleasure beach.  A view from almost 500ft! Over the August bank holiday weekend a 700 tonne Terex AC700 with full luffing jib was used by 80 of the world's leading Base jumpers jumping from a height of 146 metres or just shy of 500ft if you prefer – just 11 metres less than the height of the Blackpool Tower. After leaving the basket at the top of the jib, the jumpers have about 60 metres of free-fall before deploying parachutes and using the remaining seconds to land on targets placed on the beach. The event – to be World AirgameZ Champion 2016 – was deemed a success and will be repeated on an annual basis.  80 of the world's leading Base jumpers jumped from a height of 146 metres on the Blackpool seafront Base jumping – which stands for buildings, antennas, spans and earth from which jumps are performed – is one of the world's most dangerous sports. Unlike a parachute jump from a plane, Base jumps are done from fixed objects at lower altitudes. It is reported that there have been almost 300 base jumping deaths since 1981.  NMT supplied a 700 tonne Terex AC700 with full luffing jib with a height of 146 metres NMT has continued to supply cranes for activities like this since a run-in with IPAF at the SED show in Milton Keynes around 15 years ago. Rather than give-in to the pressure that built-up over the subsequent few years it decided to hone its skills and become more experienced in this type of service, teaming up in 2008 with the association Pro BASE. |
| Wingsuit base jumping death toll rises Posted: 23 Sep 2016 03:35 AM PDT Wingsuit base jumping death toll rises Published: 11:10 am, Saturday, 3 September 2016  Wingsuit BASE jumping is in crisis after a deadly summer saw 15 jumpers die in the space of a single month. The latest death in Canada - a man wearing a Vampire-themed wingsuit - brings the total for the year to an unprecedented 20. At least one person died while posting footage of his flight live on Facebook. Police have confirmed that the body of a jumper who went missing on a mountain in Canmore, Canada, on Sunday, had now been recovered. All victims wore wingsuits; special jumpsuits fitted with fabric under the arms and between the legs which turn jumpers into 'human wings'. They effectively allow the wearer to 'fly'. But the dangers of wingsuit BASE jumping are some 50 times higher than conventional skydiving. Analysts suggest that jumpers face around a-one-in 2,000 chance of death each time they jump. It is understood the sport is attracting more people because devotees are attracting them with live posts on YouTube and Facebook. 'It's been a horrific last couple of months,' Richard Webb, a wingsuit BASE jumper from Utah, told National Geographic magazine. 'This is easily the worst season I can remember I'm tired of the carnage.' Last week, German jumper Alexander Polli, who was considered one of the sports most experienced jumpers, died. He hit a tree while attempting a complicated 'corkscrew' manoeuvre after leaping from a mountain in Chamonix, France. Polli became a YouTube sensation after a video of him flying his suit through a hole in the side of a mountain racked up 14 million hits. He said during an interview in 2013 that he was 'extremely scared' of dying. Freedom tower base jump Speaking after Polli's death, Colonel Stephane Bozon, head of mountain rescue services in Chamonix, said: 'It is a practice that frightens us we must return to people behaving a little more rationally.' A few days later 28-year-old Italian father Armin Schmieder broadcast his death live on Facebook. He leapt from a precipice near Kandersteg in Switzerland before crashing into a ridge. The latest case saw a Brazilian man killed jumping from Grotto mountain in Canada, a 3600ft peak. According to the website Bling, which catalogues all deaths, the jumper was with two others when he hit a ledge 150m below the take-off point. 'He started flying too low, and impacted the ledge with his chest,' a statement on the website read. 'He then tumbled down the mountain, coming to a stop on a ledge another 500ft lower. 'The severity of the impact shows death was instantaneous.' US jumper and wingsuit manufacturer Matt Gerdes has warned that jumpers' lack of knowledge needs to be addressed. In a Facebook post he wrote: 'There are a lot of people saying a lot of things about wingsuit BASE deaths. 'But if we were to work on just one thing, it would be education. 'The simple truth is that wingsuit BASE jumpers don't know what they are getting into, don't know how to practice the sport safely, and don't even know enough to know how little they know.' |
| Kandersteg, Switzerland: Forecast for Saturday Night as of Sep. 23 10:37 AM CEST Posted: 23 Sep 2016 01:35 AM PDT |
| Kandersteg, Switzerland: Forecast for Friday as of Sep. 23 10:37 AM CEST Posted: 23 Sep 2016 01:35 AM PDT |
| Kandersteg, Switzerland: Forecast for Friday Night as of Sep. 23 10:37 AM CEST Posted: 23 Sep 2016 01:35 AM PDT |
| Kandersteg, Switzerland: Forecast for Friday as of Sep. 23 10:37 AM CEST Posted: 23 Sep 2016 01:35 AM PDT |
| Moab Utah: Current Conditions : 58.4F, Overcast - 2:27 AM MDT Sep. 23 Posted: 23 Sep 2016 01:35 AM PDT Temperature: 58.4°F | Humidity: 56% | Pressure: 29.68in (Rising) | Conditions: Overcast | Wind Direction: West | Wind Speed: 0.0mph More... |
| Kandersteg, Switzerland: Current Conditions : -4C, Cloudy - 10:00 AM CEST Sep. 23 Posted: 23 Sep 2016 01:35 AM PDT Temperature: -4°C | Humidity: 63% | Pressure: hPa (Rising) | Conditions: Cloudy | Wind Direction: NW | Wind Speed: 13km/h More... |
| Arco, Italy: Current weather: Fog Posted: 23 Sep 2016 01:35 AM PDT |
| Lysebotn, Norway: Current weather: Partly cloudy skies Posted: 23 Sep 2016 01:35 AM PDT |
| Twin Falls Idaho: Current Conditions : 46F, Overcast - 1:53 AM MDT Sep. 23 Posted: 23 Sep 2016 01:35 AM PDT Temperature: 46°F | Humidity: 93% | Pressure: 29.77in ( Falling) | Conditions: Overcast | Wind Direction: WSW | Wind Speed: 18mph More... |
| Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland: Current Conditions : 15.1C, Partly Cloudy - 10:28 AM CEST Posted: 23 Sep 2016 01:35 AM PDT Temperature: 15.1°C | Humidity: 81% | Pressure: 1026hPa (Steady) | Conditions: Partly Cloudy | Wind Direction: SE | Wind Speed: 1.9km/h More... |
| NASA collision avoidance system saves unconscious F-16 Pilot Posted: 22 Sep 2016 02:38 PM PDT NASA collision avoidance system saves unconscious F-16 Pilot by Matt Kamlet, Public Affairs for AFRC News Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Sep 21, 2016  The U.S. Air Force's F-16D Automatic Collision Avoidance Technology, or ACAT, aircraft was used by NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center and the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop and test collision avoidance technologies. Image courtesy NASA and Carla Thomas. For a larger version of this image please go here. Two pilots who credit a NASA-supported technology with saving one of their lives during a May training exercise mishap paid a visit to NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, to meet with some of the very engineers responsible for its development. A United States Air Force Major and F-16 flight instructor, and a foreign Air Force pilot student, spent an afternoon at the NASA center, as guests during the center's 2016 NASA Honor Awards. The pilots spent the day with NASA Armstrong center director David McBride, project manager Mark Skoog, and several other engineers and managers responsible for developing and advancing the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System, or Auto-GCAS. Both pilots say that without the system, developed in part by NASA, one of them would not be alive today. Auto-GCAS is an aircraft software system that activates upon detecting a collision course with the ground. It warns the pilot, and if imminent collision with the ground is determined, it locks the pilot controls and performs an automatic recovery maneuver, returning full control back to the pilot once the aircraft has cleared the terrain. "There have been numerous accident reports over the years where it's been pilot error," explained the flight instructor, who graduated from pilot training in 2007 and now teaches young pilots how to fly F-16s. "That's one of the things that frames my discussion with a lot of the young students that I teach, is that your chances of dying in combat are up there, it's a dangerous thing. But most F-16 pilots over the years die in training accidents." The Tucson Guard had been conducting a standard training scenario, known as basic fighter maneuvers, or BFM, in F-16s. For the student, it was his first high-aspect BFM flight. In essence, the scenario was designed for the student to fly a head-on pass with the instructor, with both aircraft flying directly at each other initially. Then, once they pass, or "merge," each pilot tries to out-maneuver the other. The exercise is meant to train pilots in maneuvers necessary for aerial combat, and requires three dimensional maneuvering under high g. Following the pass, the student banked his F-16 and began maneuvering, pulling more than 8 g. It was at this time that he experienced what's known as a g-induced loss of consciousness, or G-LOC, and fell unconscious. The aircraft, meanwhile, continued to bank, rolling to approximately 135 degrees, allowing the nose to start slicing and causing a steep dive toward the ground. The situation was especially perilous since the student, having intended to maneuver with high gravitational force, had advanced his throttle to "full afterburner" and significantly increased his aircraft's thrust. Continuing to accelerate, the aircraft began to plummet toward the ground, eventually reaching supersonic speed at Mach 1.12. Meanwhile the instructor had noticed the anomaly, and began calling for his student to "recover, recover." With no response, it was clear that the pilot was in a G-LOC situation. The instructor maneuvered to fly behind the distressed aircraft. However, the student's F-16, flying at supersonic speed, pulled away and beyond visual line of sight. "By the final 'recover' call, I'm basically just hoping that he recovers, because I'd lost sight of him at that point," the instructor said. "I was really hoping I wasn't going to see any sort of impact with the ground." Just as the instructor made his third and final "recover" call, the Auto-GCAS in the student's aircraft activated, rolling the aircraft to a safe, upright position, and performed an automatic, stabilizing pull-up. The pilot regained consciousness and promptly pulled back his throttle to "idle" speed. "My memory is that I started the fight and then I could see my instructor and the next thing I remember is just waking up," the pilot recalled. "It feels weird because I think I'm waking up from my bed. In my helmet, I can hear him screaming 'recover, recover' at me and when I open my eyes I just see my legs and the whole cockpit. It doesn't really make sense. "I got up over the horizon pretty fast again. It's all thanks to the Auto-GCAS system, which got me out of the roll and started the recovery for me." Ultimately, the aircraft recovered at approximately 3,000 feet above the ground. This is high for where Auto-GCAS would have normally performed the recovery, but the system, assuming the throttle would remain at its current position with full afterburner, and that the pilot would remain unconscious, calculated an increase in the amount of altitude required for recovery. "About maybe 30 seconds to a minute after I had gotten everything under control again," remembered the student. "The first thing I thought about was my girlfriend, and then my family, and then my friends back home, and the thought of them basically getting a call (that I had perished)." Following the potentially tragic incident, the student followed specific instructions from his instructor, was able to land his aircraft safely, and was promptly attended to by medical personnel. The development of Auto-GCAS goes back over 30 years, first flying at Edwards Air Force Base as a collaboration between NASA, the Air Force Research Lab, AFRL, and Lockheed Martin. The program was originally included as a test safety system to allow for other requested testing to take place. Testers quickly took note of the potential of Auto-GCAS, and agreed that it may hold broader-reaching ramifications than the primary test systems. However, Skoog, who has worked with autonomous systems since the beginning of his career, says that the system was met with initial opposition including from the fighter pilot community. "There were some instances where we saw families of pilots who'd been lost in mishaps and we knew that it could be prevented," Skoog said. "It was very challenging. There's a personal burden and a clear moral responsibility to get the message out to the decision makers so that they can properly administrate funds to bring this kind of potential life-saving technology forward." Auto-GCAS was eventually incorporated into the Fighter Risk Reduction program and was subsequently fielded on the F-16 in September of 2014. Since then, the system has prevented at least four confirmed aircraft situations that could have resulted in loss of life. "After having gone through so much initial resistance from the pilot community, to now, where just weeks after its implementation there was a complete reversal in pilot opinion," Skoog said. "They are finally seeing what we in the test community saw for a long time." For the student, the system, he says, made all the difference in his life. "This was an isolated incident for me, but, from the bottom of my heart, I just want to say thank you to everyone who has been a part of developing the Auto-GCAS system," he said. "It's everyone, not just engineers, but politicians and people just trying to get the ball rolling on having the Air Force use it. They are the reason that I am able to stand here today and talk about it. I'm able to continue to fly the F-16, and I'm able to go home and see my family again. So thank you, so much." |
| Moab Utah: Current Conditions : 83.3F, Overcast - 2:26 PM MDT Sep. 22 Posted: 22 Sep 2016 01:30 PM PDT Temperature: 83.3°F | Humidity: 32% | Pressure: 29.79in (Rising) | Conditions: Overcast | Wind Direction: ESE | Wind Speed: 0.0mph More... |
| Kandersteg, Switzerland: Current Conditions : -1C, Mostly Cloudy - 10:00 PM CEST Sep. Posted: 22 Sep 2016 01:30 PM PDT Temperature: -1°C | Humidity: 18% | Pressure: hPa (Rising) | Conditions: Mostly Cloudy | Wind Direction: NW | Wind Speed: 17km/h More... |
| Arco, Italy: Current weather: Clear skies Posted: 22 Sep 2016 01:30 PM PDT |
| Lysebotn, Norway: Current weather: Partly cloudy skies Posted: 22 Sep 2016 01:30 PM PDT |
| Twin Falls Idaho: Current Conditions : 51F, Light Rain - 1:53 PM MDT Sep. 22 Posted: 22 Sep 2016 01:30 PM PDT Temperature: 51°F | Humidity: 83% | Pressure: 29.78in (Rising) | Conditions: Light Rain | Wind Direction: ENE | Wind Speed: 4mph More... |
| Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland: Current Conditions : 15.2C, Clear - 10:26 PM CEST Sep. 22 Posted: 22 Sep 2016 01:30 PM PDT Temperature: 15.2°C | Humidity: 77% | Pressure: 1022hPa (Steady) | Conditions: Clear | Wind Direction: SW | Wind Speed: 1.9km/h More... |
| Wingsuit Video: Wing Suit jumps with Erik Roner Posted: 22 Sep 2016 12:11 PM PDT Wing Suit jumps with Erik Roner Author:  funnyvideo95Tags: Nitro Circus Erik Roner Wing Suits Erik Roner Wingsuit extreme sports sports best funny episodes action Extreme motorcycle crazy biggest crash Jump launch worlds Circus epic fail tricks nitro bmx travis insane x games funny videos Posted: 22 September 2016 by Daily Motion Wingsuit Videos This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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