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Video: Skydivers intercept gliders midair. The low cost fighter jet solution for air forces in financial crisis?

May 21, 2012 David Cenciotti

The following video shows what (theoretically) could be achieved by future paratroopers equipped with proper wingsuits. Five wingsuit skydivers joined up with and maintained formation with two gliders over Austria, in the last Red Bull […]