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Birdman Challenge
On July 20 2000 a group of 7 Birdmen flew in freefall
from the Island Texel over the ± 4 km wide Marsdiep to the mainland
Den Helder. Equiped with special designed suits with double layer wings
the "skyflyers" were abe to get a forward speed in freefall
about the same as the fallrate. This means that from a height of 5 km
(and opening the parachutes at 1 km) roughly a distance of 4 km could
be achieved.
Parashoot Productions (Henny Wiggers) filmed (Digital
Video & stills) both the trainings jumps the day before and the actual
jump of the crossing.
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