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Wingsuit World Record

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Fun footage on the way...
 
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It's Evin Grant's camera package - a Cooke 25-250mm T4 with a doubler. It's not the ideal lens for the job, but it's definitely doing the trick. I can fill the frame with jumpers.

The record goal is a 71-way flock. They're coming very close so far, there's one more jump left in the day.

The flock is quite something to witness from the ground...

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Hey Brook, looks like great stuff man.

Anyone in the flock with a RED on their head?
 
I hope somebody in the formation got some aerial viewpoint footage with something.
 
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Please excuse any funny colors or exposure, I prepared the images on a 9 year old monitor.

No formation pictures tonight, I'm afraid. I'm going to let the camera team from the record release their media first.
 
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Sorry it took so long guys... here's the first clip. My apologies for the gigantic watermark, it was requested by the event organizers.

More footage to come - I'll eventually cut something out of the "B-roll" footage I posted stills from above.

This is the world record jump. Apologies for how shaky the footage is - the ground winds were approximately 20-23MPH and I didn't have any wind protection. It looks pretty fantastic when stabilized.

The exit altitude was ~14,500' AGL, deployment of the jumper I held on was approximately 3,500' AGL. The flock traveled roughly 3 linear miles before deployment. While the flock was only in freefall for about two minutes, an individual wingsuit jumper can have a freefall time of over three minutes [with fallrates as low as 35MPH] before deployment. To compare, the average freefly skydive lasts roughly 45 seconds at 150-170MPH.

Enjoy!
 
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Wasn't my choice, trust me. When the footage has been more widely released [it's not on any skydiving-related sites yet... I believe this is the first posting of any footage anywhere], I'll be able to repost with a less intrusive watermark.
 
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