During the last decade the flying suits have been in development process and a lot of brands have been fabricating their flying suit. BMW with the help of Designworks have made the fastest flying suit at the moment. This flying suit is the first to have an electric propulsion system that affords the driver to achieve 300 km/h.
It has been named Electrified Wingsuit, and during the presentation it was driven by the Austrian driver Peter Salzmann, who was involved in the development process, and was him who gave the idea to add an engine to the flying suit. He told that: “I had the idea to add an impeller, in other words, a propeller shut up by a ring or tube form shell. However, a conventional or fuel engine were out of question”. And secured that the engine had to be electrified: “The sustainability is very important for me, and something with I live every day. I enjoy with the nature from air to the floor, that is why my objective is to continue the path of the sustainability, even when it is about the mobility”.
This electrified flying suit has two propellers covered with carbon, each one generates a power of 7.5 kW with a speed of 25,000 rpm, that produces a total power of 15 kW. All those things make the drive to achieve 300 km/h in free fall, when the traditional flying suit achieve 100 km/h.
We are seeing how the mobility is changing, but this flying suit is only for tested and experienced people that train for this type of activity. But this special flying suit give the rest of the producers to think, until this moment, the companies achieved 200 km/h slower flying suit than this. For this reason, the brands will work to fabricate a faster suit than this, so we have to wait to see if someone makes a faster suit.
Adrian Delgado
