Andy Stumpf

So there is an outer layer on both sides, an upper layer, let's say, for your back and an under layer for your belly.

In between, it's much like a canopy.

There's ribbed fabric with portholes.

And on the front and back of the wing,

as you give it airspeed, either exiting an airplane that's already in flight, most skydiving airplanes are probably doing 80 to 120 miles an hour, or in the base jumping world, and this is where it can get spicy, is you have no airflow for about the first four seconds.

Because jumping, for those that don't know, is- Call it a fixed object.

Building antenna span, or EARTH, is what the acronym stands for.

You're probably not going to do it off of buildings because you need time to get the suit actually flying.

But it's a different experience because if you jump out of an airplane, those ram air inlets fill up your suit is it's pressurized.

You can feel it and you can already fly your suit.

You can flip over.

You can actually have gotten above aircraft many times.

You can basically translate that horizontal lift into power and go above them shortly.

You're going to come back down.

Otherwise, you'll stall the suit and it starts waffling down.

But in the base jumping world, it's a zero airspeed exit.

So for the first about zero to four seconds,

You don't have any air filling up the ram air inlets.

So if you don't go off in the right body position or if you go head low and are scorpion or head high and then you pitch through that and there is terrain below you, that's how a lot of people die.

But the suit itself is basically that.