Bird-Man.com manufacturers skydiving and wingsuit products
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BirdMan, Inc.
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Entrepreneur Jari Kuosma fulfilled his dream of making a radical new skydiving suit. Almost all of his clients have lived to marvel at its wonders.
As the plane climbs through the sky above DeLand, Florida, we go over the plan one more time. The giant Belgian and I--we're strapped together--will jump first and hurl to earth at 120 miles per hour. After 30 seconds or so, our parachute will open and then we will look directly up to see Jari Kuosma flying in our direction. The flyby is made possible by Kuosma's odd garb: a strange white jumper with red webbing between the legs and triangular "wings" connecting the arms and the torso. "If I hit you on the way down," Kuosma cheerfully adds by way of ending the briefing, "you die."
Kuosma is president and owner of BirdMan Inc., the world's first and largest purveyor of "wingsuits." Anyone who's logged 200 jumps can buy one of these getups for $618 and experience an entirely new kind of skydiving. According to Kuosma, wingsuiters can slow the downward speed of a free fall from 120 mph to 37 mph and fly horizontally through the clouds. This nearly triples their time in the air before pulling the rip cord. About 2,000 people have experienced the wingsuit since the company was founded in 1999. Only four have died.
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