bodyflight
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Bodyflight, or body flight, is an air sport in which participants use the airflow generated by vertical wind tunnels to maintain flight.
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Bodyflight, or body flight, is an air sport in which participants use the airflow generated by vertical wind tunnels to maintain flight.
== History == The first recorded bodyflight was by aeronautical engineer Jack Tiffany in 1964 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Tiffany was testing parachutes for the Apollo program at the time, and decided to jump into the vertical wind tunnel being used for the testing. The first vertical wind tunnel designed specifically for bodyflight was built in 1978 by Aerodium Technologies near Montreal, Canada. Since then, vertical wind tunnels designed for bodyflight have significantly improved in safety, efficiency, and usability.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bodyflight” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.