Lutz wins WoM - August 2008
This years Wings over Marl event was bigger than ever with more competitors and even more prizes.
The main competition event for the longest freefall time saw the minute barrier being broken by the top 3 flyers.
Local pilot Lutz Luedtke surprised the competition by posting the best time in the first round and continued with consistent winning times to take 1st place overall.
| OPEN |
SUIT |
Round 1 (sec) |
Round 2 (sec) |
Round 3 (sec) |
TOTAL (sec) |
Rank |
Avg fall rate MPH |
| Lutz Luedtke |
Stealth |
69,6 |
70,0 |
62,1 |
201,7 |
1 |
33,2 |
| Tobi Scherrinsky |
SM1 |
53,1 |
67,5 |
65,2 |
185,8 |
2 |
36,1 |
| Jeff Nebelkopf |
SM1 |
61,1 |
65,2 |
49,0 |
175,3 |
3 |
38,3 |
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Congratulations to all the winners and a big thank you to Sky Jester and Marl dropzone for their work organizing the event.
Maybe next year someone will break 80 seconds!?
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PF @ Cochstedt Boogie - August 2008
The AN 72 aircraft wasn't present at this years Cochstedt Boogie BUT the AN 28 and Pink Skyvan did an excellent job in its place.
Wingsuit jumpers from all over the world attended the event and under the watchful eye of load organisers Rolf, Scott, Jarno and Juan put together small and medium size multi point formations. The largest slot perfect formation flown was a 9 way. With the largest formation attempted being a 16 way.
Vielen dank to Rolf, Meike and all the dropzone staff for all their work organizing the event.
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Wings over
Gransee - September 27th/28th 2008
Skydive Gransee will host their opening wingsuit event on the 27th and 28th September. Come join Mirko Schmidt, Robert Pecnik and the Skydive Gransee team for a weekend of wingsuit fun, with flocking and a race competition with cash prizes! Demo suits will also be available throughout the weekend and a big party is planned for the Saturday night.
For full details contact Mirko.
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New Wingsuit School and Demo Centre at Skydive
Gransee, Germany! July 2008
Skydive Gransee are happy to announce the opening of their new Wingsuit School and Demo centre
. The school is fully equipped with the full line up of Phoenix-Fly products as well as their own Phoenix-Fly Instructor Examiner Mirko Schmidt.
Full details of the school and of the upcoming events will be announced shortly, stay tuned!
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Phoenix-Fly @ Norway Heil Boogie June 2008
The PF team have just returned from the Kjerag Heli-Boogie. The weather was not the best this year but the jumpers made the most of the windows offered and still completed over 700 jumps.
Thank you to Stein, Vibeke, Kim, Ronni, Sparky, James, Ryan, Martin and everyone at the Stavanger BASE Klub for organising a great event.
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Upcoming events in Germany - July / August '08
Summer is here! There are two wingsuit events not to be missed in Germany:
Antonov 72 Boogie in Cochstedt , 28th July - 3rd August, wingsuit big way formations! The biggest wingsuit event in Europe.
Wings over Marl, 8th – 10th August, freefall time competition.
See you there!
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PF @ Skydive Graz Austria - May '08
James and Kristina have just returned from a fun weekend at Skydive Graz in Austria. The weather was kind and all the first flight students were able to make several jumps progressing on to small flock formations.
Thank you to Markus and everyone at Skydive Graz for being excellent hosts.
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The Acro 2 Wingsuit is here - Apr '08
Phoenix-Fly is happy to announce the launch of the Acro 2 wingsuit - an updated and improved version of the original suit. For more details click ::here::
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Red Devils in Wingsuits! - Apr '08
The Red Devils (British Army Parachute Regiment Freefall Display Team) are now using the Vampire wingsuit as part of their display. James went to Lake Elsinore in the US to train team members Sgt. Jay Webster and Pvt. Danny Wood how to use the Vampire and work on various display routines. Both pilots proved to be natural flyers and could be seen weaving smoke trails over the town after just a few days practice.
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PF Team at 2008 Wingsuit competition - Apr '08
Robert, James and Kristina competed in the Wingsuit Competition held in Spa, Belgium. The team completed the 5 round event which involved making docks and various freestlye moves and took 2nd place overall. The event was the first of its kind and the result was a nice surprise considering they only made 9 practice jumps prior to the event. It will be interesting to see how this competition format develops in the future. Thank you to Jarno, Costyn, Alex, Hans, Patrick, Karin and everyone at Skydive Spa.
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The Phantom 2 Wingsuit is here - Apr '08
Phoenix-Fly is happy to announce the launch of the Phantom 2 wingsuit - an updated and improved version of the original suit. For more details click ::here::
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Phoenix-Fly at Z-Flock 4.0 - Mar '08
James and Robert have just returned from the annual Z-Flock wingsuit formation skydiving event in Florida.
The event had over 65 participants this year, mainly from the USA, but also Finland, UK, and Russia. The highlights being a 40 way double chevron, a slot perfect 16 way diamond and open 12 way diamond.
Thank you to Scott Bland, Morpheus Technologies, TK and everyone
at Skydive city for making the event possible.
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The Prodigy 2 Wingsuit is here - Feb '08
Phoenix-Fly is happy to announce the launch of the Prodigy 2 wingsuit - an updated and improved version of the original suit. For more details click ::here::
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PF at Outdoor Games Chamonix, France - Feb '08
James and Robert were invited to the Outdoor Games in Chamonix to perform wingsuit flights past the Aiguille de Midi together with fellow Apocalypse flyers Jean Noel Itzstein and Yves Bury. The wingsuits were a big hit with the public watching from the terrace!
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PF at Indoor BASE World Cup, Germany - Jan '08
The PF Team had a great time time at the 1st Indoor BASE World Cup held at the Tropical Island Resort near Berlin, Germany. Robert and James put their new OSP canopies to the test, landing in the target circle every round. (OSP is a new canopy from Atair specially designed for slider down jumps). Congratulations to the winners; Klaus, Liv and Johnny and thank you to Mahle, Caro, Jojo, Totti, Tropical Island and all the support staff for organizing an excellent competition.
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Wingsuit Presentation for the FAI-IPC - Jan '08
James made a presentation about wingsuit flying to the FAI International Parachute Commission last week in Paris. The slide and video presentation covered the current status of the discipline and included proposals for possible competition events & record definitions.
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The new STEALTH Wingsuit is here! - Jan '08
The STEALTH Wingsuit is here! The Stealth is aimed at experienced wingsuit skydivers who want to access a new level of performance. The large wing surface means incredibly slow freefall speeds and unmatched range for flocking.
For full details check ::here::
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PF at Skydive Arizona Holiday Boogie - Dec '07
James and Kristina saw in the New Year at the Skydive Arizona Holiday Boogie. The weather was cool but the skies were clear. Many formation loads were flown during the boogie, up to 11 ways and a nice 2 point 9 way towards the end.
The PF demo suits were in demand and the new Stealth wingsuit was also put through its paces. Thank you to SDA, Scott, Scott, Dave, Sean, Mark, Rob, Paul, Spike, Elaine, Jacky, Lee, Travis, Paul and all the other wingsuit pilots.
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US$ Price increases from January 1st 2008
Our dollar prices will increase from January 1st 2008 due to the dollar / euro exchange rate. US and Canadian customers should get their orders in now!
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Westcoast Wingsuit Event - 15/10/07
James attended the WestCoast Wingsuit Weekend at Lodi last week.
The weather didn't cooperate on Friday but Saturday and Sunday offered warm blue skies.
11 flocks were made during the weekend, the largest being a 16 way. The skill level was good and the West coast proved they flock hard with nice forward speed and fall rates in the 60mph range (and even the 50s).
Some people had to leave early on Sunday which allowed the chance to do some smaller multi point flocks.
If you get the chance to attend a Westcoast Wingsuit Weekend - do so. You will not be disappointed, good people, good dz, good flocks and good wine.
Thank you to Ed & Michelle, Lodi DZ and all the participants; Reg, Tony, Scott, Wes, Sean, Ira, Chris, Xavier, Rob, Pete, Dave, Dingo, Timmy and Avery.
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Z-Flock 3.5 Wingsuit Event - 08/10/07
Robert and James have just returned from the bi-annual Z-Flock wingsuit event. The autumn event is normally a smaller boogie focusing on developing formation flying skills. This year a record 50 flyers attended the event and despite some bad luck with the weather many multi point 15-20 way formations were performed.
Thank you to Scott Bland, Morpheus Tech, Skydive City, Chuck Blue, Rob Jones, Matt Hoover and Scotty Burns for all their hard work and of course thank you to all the participants!
Until Flock 'n Dock 4.0!
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PF Wins Italian Wingsuit Competition - 24/09/07
PF wingsuits won the 1st and 3rd places in both the National and International competitions. (Robert in a V2 taking 1st place and James in a Phantom taking 3rd place.)
GRAZIE Marco, Claudio, Francesca, Chiller and everyone at Skydive Tortuga for organizing the wingsuit event! Marco and the Freccette Tricolori team put in a huge amount of preparation and worked tirelessly throughout the event to make it a success.
The competition was divided in to 3 events; distance, time and speed, measured using GPS and Paralog software.
Congratulations to the winners:
Italian National Competition:
1st: Giovanni (V2)
2nd: David (SFly)
3rd: Roberto (V1)
International Competition:
1st: Robert (V2)
2nd: Tristan (SM1)
3rd: James (Phantom)
Until the next competition!
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New web video - Terrain Flying in Norway Aug 2007
Robert has just returned from a jumping trip in Norway.
Check out the video ::here::.
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Phoenix-Fly in the USA July 2007
James has just returned from the Unconventional Boogie at Perris Valley Skydiving and the Summerfest at Skydive Chicago. Jumpers at both boogies took the chance to try wingsuit flying for the frist time and also to demo the the full range of PF wingsuits. The new Ghost wingsuit was in demand and proved very popular.
Thank you to everyone at Skydive Perris Valley, Skydive Chicago and all the jumpers for the fun times.
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Phoenix-Fly @ Norway Heil Boogie June 2007
Robert has just returned from the Kjerag Heli-Boogie. 80 BASE jumpers from all over the world attended the event and were greeted with 5 days of great weather!
Thank you to Stein, Vibeke, Ronni, Stig and everyone at the Stavanger BASE Klub for organising another a great event (and party).
Check out the video from the event ::here::.
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PFI Course at the farm this weekend - June 30th '07
Baxter will be conducting a PFI course at the Farm dropzone in Atlanta this Saturday (30/06). Contact Baxter if you have any questions or wish to reserve your slot. For the PFI pre-requisites please refer to The PFI page.
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PF Wingsuits in Chevrolet Advert - June 2007
James Boole from PF, Alistair Marsh from Adrenalin BASE and Max Hurd from UK Pro BASE recently took the leading roles in a TV advert for Chevrolet cars. The advert was shot in Malaysia and features the PF Acro wingsuit flying over the city of Kuala Lumpur.
The advert will only be aired in the middle east but you can watch it in our video gallery, see the link below.
Check out the advert ::here::.
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2007 Stupino Wingsuit Boogie - June 2007
The PF team has just got back from the 2007 Stupino Wingsuit Boogie in Russia. Around 30 jumpers attended the event, mostly Russians and completed many successful wingsuit formation jumps. An MI8 helicopter was the main jump ship and good use was made of the tail gate. The distance and speed competitions ran smoothly, using Garmin Foretrex 201 GPS units to record the data and the Paralog software to judge the results. For the full results check out ::here::. Congratulations to the winners Valery, Maxim, Serge, Robert and Gleb!
Many thanks to Valery, Natasha, Serge, all the participants and everyone at Stupino dropzone. A special thank you to Garmin and to Klaus at Paralog for their support.
Check out a few photos from the event in the gallery.
Check out the video from the event ::here::.
See you next year!
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PF at Frankfurt Wolkenkratzer Festival - May 2007
The PF team has just returned from the Frankfurt Wolkenkratzer Festival in Germany. The BASE jumping team of 15 jumpers from 9 different countries set a world record jumping from 10 different skyscrapers in a 24 hour period. To top off a perfect event Robi, Hannes and James performed a wingsuit demo into the main arena performing a flyby on the Frankfurt Messeturm. A total of 133 jumps were performed. Check out photos from the event ::here::
VIELEN DANKE to Hannes, Ecki, Ute, the ground crew and everyone else that made this event possible.
Check out the video from the Messeturm flyby ::here::.
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Paralog special offer for all PFIs - May 2007
Paralog is now offering a special offer to all PFIs. PFIs will now receive a 50% discount on the Paralog software - electronic log book software that connects to your Neptune or GPS to analyse wingsuit flight performance data, calculating glide ratio and freefall speeds. To register for this special offer please click
::here::
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Tracking Suit US$ Price Increase from 1st June '07
A notice for our US customers; due to the $/€ exchange rate the US$ price of the Tracking Suit will be increased from June 1st. The new prices will be: Pants $299, Jacket $289 and the Tracking Suit $529.
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Wingin' It Wingsuit Event - with SKYVAN!
Easter 2007, UK
Fantastic weather greeted the Skyvan and its pilot Guy as it landed on Friday morning at Netheravon. James got to work load organizing, starting with 3 ways and building up to 9 ways over 22 loads.
Liz Ashley from the Wingin' It wingsuit school did a stellar job teaching 16 first flight courses during the boogie but still found time to join the record 9 way flock.
Many of the students took the chance to continue their progression with a few eventually joining the big way flocks.
Congratulations to Jack on his 300th jump, to Charlie on her 500th jump and to Mike Ehlas on passing the PFI course.
Check out the video from the event ::here::.
Thank you to Liz, Robin and everyone at Netheravon dropzone.
Until the next time !
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Z-Flock 3.0 April 2007
Robert made the annual trip to the Z-Hills for Z-Flock 3.0 (James was filming in Malaysia). The event ran smoothly under the watchful guidance of load organizer and base man Scott Bland. A good variety of flocks were flown from slot perfect 9 ways, to high speed flocks and as always the multi plane big ways. The skill level continues to increase each year, securing Z-Flock as the primary wingsuit event in North America. Check out Matt Hoover's photos from the event here.
The prototype flocking suit had its first public airing and was very well received. There are some small adjustments to be made but the suit is otherwise ready for launch. Watch this space!
Thank you Rob & Kathy from Morpheus Tech, TK and everyone from Skydive City, Scott Bland, the event sponsors and everyone else who made the event possible.
See you there next year!
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Proyecto Alas over Antarctica! March 2007
Santi, Toni and Alvaro have done it again! This time flying their wingsuits over Antarctica! The jump went to plan although the extreme cold froze Vincent's photo camera, denying us of freefall photos of the flight. Congratulations! Read more about the jump at the PROYECTO ALAS website.
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Valery jumps the Torres del Paine, Chile
Valery Rozov has successfully climbed and jumped his wingsuit from the giant Torres del Paine in Chile. The jump, performed as part of the ongoing Russian Extreme project went as planned, Valery flew his Vampire wingsuit down into the valley before opening his canopy for a soft landing below.
Congratulations Valery! 
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New BASE Climb Expedition 2008 - Do you want to join the team?
World record holders Glenn Singleman and Heather Swan, better known as the BASE Climb Team are organising another expedition for 2008. The goal is to jump from another incredible mountain - Shivling, India.
This time though there is one BIG difference: YOU CAN JOIN THE TEAM! There are a limited number of slots available for experienced BASE jumpers & mountaineers to join the summit attempt on Shivling. There are also slots open for hikers who can accompany the team on the approach to Shivling.
A once in a lifetime opportunity, for photos and more details click ::here:: or email James.
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Wingsuit Weekend in Sardegna Feb 16-18 2007
Thank you to everyone at Skydive Sardegna for another succesful event. Special thanks to Valentino, Barbara, Olav & Marco. Also to the wingsuit pilots; Fabio, Alessio, Filippo, Davide, Stefano and Adriano.
Despite bad weather on the Sunday we made many great jumps filling the aircraft with wingsuits (as well as consuming 20kg of meat on the grill Saturday night).
Until the next time!
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Phoenix-Fly Wingsuit Boogie at Skydive Empuriabrava, Spain: 2nd Jan - 6th Jan 2007
The weather was excellent during the wingsuit boogie at Skydive Empuriabrava, allowing us to make 29 formation loads. The flock size varied from 3 ways to 11 ways and the best formation was a 2 point 10 way. (Over 200 jumps in total). Thank you to Skydive Empuriabrava and all the participants who attended from France, Italy, Germany, UK and Canada.
Check out a couple of photos from the event in the gallery.
Check out the video from this years event in the video gallery.
Stay tuned for more events in Spain later this year.
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Happy Holidays from the PF Team!
Happy holidays from Robert, James and Baxter. 2006 has been an awesome year with many great flights in many many countries. 2007 promises to be even better with new products, more events and bigger formations. See you there!
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Wingsuit Weekend in Sardegna Dec 8-9-10 2006
The wingsuit boogie at Skydive Sardegna went very well indeed! During the weekend over 50 wingsuit skydives were made, 8 first flight course, 18 one on one coach jumps and a few 4 way flocks to boot!
Thank you to Valentino, Barbara, Olav and all the jumpers at Skydive Sardegna for an excellent weekend. Hope to see you again soon.
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Phoenix-Fly in Turkey Oct 2006
The Phoenix-Fly and Atair teams visited Turkey in October. The group made jumps from paragliders as part of the opening ceremony of the Paragliding World Cup in Talas, Kayseri. Followed by a trip to the beautiful Crimson Mountains. The group also jumped from the TV Tower in Istanbul before returning home.
Special thanks to our guide and trip organiser Arif Kemal Buhara, local jumper Beslan Babaoglu and photographer Ayhan Tunel for the excellent shots! Most of all we would like to thank the Mayor of Talas, Kayseri for inviting us.
The national TV station interviewed Beslan prior to his jump from the TV tower, the footage can be seen here. Photos will be added to the gallery shortly.
Hope to see you again soon!
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VKB and Phoenix Fly Co-development
We are happy to announce that Espen and Hans from the Norwegian VKB BASE team are working together with Phoenix-Fly to develop new wingsuits designs that are ideally suited to the VKB flying style.
From Espen:
"When size doesn't matter
I don't count seconds, and I don't measure distance. I aim for joy, and the experience of really seeing the speed. I aim for the sense of following the earths surface like a bird. When all the references are near, you can almost hear the sound of rocks and trees. Sometimes I need to fly flat to reach that goal, and other times almost vertical. On most jumps, different angles are needed thoughout the flight.
Such jumps demand a comfortable suit. A suit that gives the jumper confidence. Just as confident as one feels when tracking. It also needs to be accurate at all angles. At the same time it shouldn't be heavy to fly, even in 300 km/h. This suit is Roberts first step, with a goal of reaching such demands. It will be an never ending process. Problems will occur. But we are at the very start of terrain flying, which is bigwall jumping of the 21st
century. Join us to find the possibilities!
Espen Fadnes VKB#7"
The photos below were taken by Fredrik Naumann of Espen jumping the P-prototype in Norway.
For further information and questions please contact: James. Watch this space for more news...
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Successful Wingsuit Weekend at Skydive Cremona, Italy Nov 2006
The wingsuit weekend held at Skyteam Cremona on November 4th and 5th was attended by 14 wingsuit pilots. Despite the cold weather the dropzones Pilatus Porter was filled with wingsuits on several occasions! The group made steady progress working towards tight 10 way formations.
Thank you to Skyteam Cremona, Marco and Chiller for organising the event. A special mention to the jumpers who came from abroad to attend this event; JJ (France), Andre (Brazil) and Jim (Australia).
Congratulations Jim Mitchell for passing the PFI course! Click here to see the complete list of PFIs.
See you in Cremona next year!
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Phoenix-Fly Wingsuit Boogie at Skydive Empuriabrava, Spain: May 2006
The Wingsuit weekend at Empuriabrava was great fun with 12 participants making over 150 jumps! Mucho wing! The flocks varied from 4 way to 10 way. 6 flyers also tried wingsuit flying for the first time using the Prodigy.
Thank you to Skydive Empuriabrava for being such excellent hosts and a big thank you to all the participants: Dimitry, Giulio, Fido, David, Liz, Patrick, FaFa, BruBru, KiKi, Geraldine, Luke, David, Serg, Judith, Chopy, Isi and Cedric.
Yves Rossy aka the Jet Man was also at Empuriabrava jumping his rigid wings and we got the chance to flock alongside him.
Check out the photos from the event in the gallery
Until the next time!
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