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Now this is human flight!
Daring Wingsuit Flight from BASE Jumper Cedric Dumont in Switzerland
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I read somewhere a long time ago for a human to be able to fly he/she would have to have chest muscles 4 feet thick. Don't remember what the wingspan was.
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They would need hollow bones and be a lot less overall mass. The heaviest bird that can fly is about 40 lbs.
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I heard the oil companies bought up that invention to keep it from replacing gas guzzling SUVs.
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