Records
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale has not established judging criteria for official world record wingsuit formations. However, several national organizations have established record categories and have established criteria for judging whether or not a wingsuit formation is complete.
The largest wingsuit formation officially recognized as meeting the criteria for a national record consisted of 68 jumpers in an arrowhead formation which set a US National Record at Lake Elsinore, California, on 12 November 2009.
The largest unofficial record was a diamond formation involving 100 jumpers at Perris, California, on September 22, 2012. This has been submitted to Guinness World records.
On 8 June 2006, Australian couple Heather Swan and Glenn Singleman jumped from 21,780 ft (6,640 m) of Meru Peak in India setting a world record for highest Wisbase jump.
The longest verified WiSBASE jump is 7.5 km (4.6 mi) by Dean Potter on 2 November 2011. Potter jumped from Eiger and had spent 3 minutes and 20 seconds in flight, covering 9,200 ft (2.8 km) of altitude.
On 28 May 2011, Japanese wingsuit pilot Shin Ito set world records for the fastest speed reached in a wingsuit of 363 km/h (226 mph).
On 20 and 21 April 2012, Colombian skydiver Jhonathan Florez set four Guinness World Records in wingsuit flying. The jumps took place in La Guajira in Colombia. following records:
• The greatest horizontal distance flown in a wing suit – 26.257 km (16.315 miles)
• The greatest absolute distance flown – 28.196 km (17.520 miles)
• The longest (duration) wingsuit flight – 9 minutes 6 seconds
• The highest altitude wingsuit jump – 11,358 m (37,265 ft)
On 23 May 2012, British stuntman Gary Connery safely landed a wingsuit without deploying his parachute, landing on a crushable "runway" (landing zone) built with thousands of cardboard boxes.
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