Wingsuit Pilot Crashes

[Kenny Phillips]

He was perhaps better known as one of those strap-on jet guys, as well.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a...champion-wingsuit-flier-dies-at-38/ar-AAGOI0G

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

That's not going faster than terminal velocity, that's reducing drag to increase the terminal velocity. And a wing isn't what's doing it, it's reducing drag by streamlining, the wing isn't exposed to gain the speed.

Isn’t the terminal velocity for a falling object determined primarily by how streamlined it is?

If so the normal quoted terminal velocity for a human, in clothing and flailing around, could be different than someone in a very smooth suit holding the right shape.