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Skydiving is a sport - or it can be. There are some incredible competitions in it. I used to watch the formation practice not too far from where I live. It was best from the ground, but I used to enjoy hitching a ride on the DC3 to watch from the plane. I never did anything but single jumps.

Here's a link to the USPA's manual on competition: www.uspa.org
There's a section just for Wingsuit competition.

This vid and effort reminded me of some other projects - one was Army I think - where they'd fly the plane low and catch the skydiver on a rig and lift him up where he could release over target. There was also something in WW2 - about ground to air recovery? Hm.

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