OK, so full-contact skydiving was fake.
But we've got an airborne sport that's real and perhaps almost as crazy: wingsuit racing.
On Friday, Red Bull wrote on YouTube that it had staged a "first-ever wingsuit competition format," in which four wingsuit flyers race each other in a four-gate slalom course starting at 7,000 feet. The contestants flew as fast as 160 miles an hour and opened their parachutes at 3,000 feet, according to the description accompanying a video of the race.
Andy Farrington won Thursday's competition premiere, which took place over Oakdale, California. Katie Hansen finished first among the women in the 52-person field.
But we've got an airborne sport that's real and perhaps almost as crazy: wingsuit racing.
On Friday, Red Bull wrote on YouTube that it had staged a "first-ever wingsuit competition format," in which four wingsuit flyers race each other in a four-gate slalom course starting at 7,000 feet. The contestants flew as fast as 160 miles an hour and opened their parachutes at 3,000 feet, according to the description accompanying a video of the race.
Andy Farrington won Thursday's competition premiere, which took place over Oakdale, California. Katie Hansen finished first among the women in the 52-person field.
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