Jumping from a Mountain in strong wind conditions doesn't necessarily mean it's more dangerous. If you're an experienced wingsuit pilot, you can use the wind to start higher and fly further, as long ...

The extreme sport of wingsuit flying that killed British stuntman Mark Sutton this week involves a special aerodynamic jumpsuit developed about a decade ago. It creates fabric batwing sleeves ...

That's why, says Dr. Omer Mei-Dan, he and others who enjoy base jumping and wingsuit flying are grieving but aren't surprised by the recent deaths of two high-profile extreme sports enthusiasts.

If you're an experienced wingsuit pilot, you can use the wind to start higher and fly further, as long as the wind is coming from the right direction. Updraft at the exit and tailwind during the ...

But wingsuit flying’s dangerous reputation, even by the standards of “extreme” sports, peaked last year when a record 38 people fell to their deaths, including 15 in August alone.

Ever since wingsuit flying took off as an extreme sport around the year 2000, people have been wondering if it'd be possible to stick a motor on one, and give it the ability to accelerate and ...

Dean Potter, 43, and his climbing partner Graham Hunt, 29, were both experienced at flying in wingsuits, the most extreme form of BASE - buildings, antennas, spans and Earth - jumping , which is ...

He flew in a wingsuit off the Eiger in Switzerland, nearly 9,000 vertical feet, a wingsuit base jump that lasted nearly three minutes. In the end, it was a wingsuit flight that killed Dean Potter.

GENEVA (AP) - The extreme sport of wingsuit flying that killed British stuntman Mark Sutton this week involves a special aerodynamic jumpsuit developed about a decade ago.

A Scottish wingsuit flyer has died during a jump in the Swiss Alps. British champion Liam Byrne, 24, was critically injured ...

There can be no doubt Alex Duncan died doing what he loved. The 26-year-old, from Manly, was relatively new to wingsuit flying but had been into extreme sports since he was a teenager. He was ...