Regardless of age, people always dreamt about flying. They tried to make this ambitious day dream come true by attaching artificial wings to their arms and that always resulted in a futile exercise. They used to make wings out of feathers and other materials like wood and jump off a cliff. Many attempts resulted in death. Now innovative and obsessive people have invented flying suits with which they can jump from an aero plane so that they can experience what was impossible sometime back, this cloth can make these people fly or make them “feel” like flying for few minutes, so many have named these “Flying people” “birdmen”.
The correspondent Steve Kroft observed and interviewed some birdmen to probe how and why they engage in this flying activity. He states his close observation about the jumping off experience of birdmen when he took the outstanding pictures.
He described that when a birdman jumps off the mountain the sound from his bird-suit was more like that of a jet plane. While talking to Kroft about the experience of jumping the jumper said, “I just love feeling speed and watching that stuff go by”. He described that they can experience speed up to 150 miles per hour during their flight. Norwegians are in this obsessive and crazy sport for many years. The birdmen don’t stop on only one flying idea but they go on experimenting innovatively to find new ways of flying joy.
A dangerous sport indeed, but to experience that adrenalin in your veins, one willing to put his/her life on the line is not that of a unheard idea.
Birdmen
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