00:00What happens when a human stops falling, and actually begins to rise?
00:05When gravity stops winning, and a man in a wingsuit suddenly climbs into the sky like
00:10a living bird?
00:11Today, we witness a moment that has shattered the limits of human flight, a moment that
00:16Red Bull called impossible, until Peter Salzman made it real.
00:21This is not just a stunt.
00:23This is not just extreme sports.
00:26This is the birth of a new era where humans don't fall, they soar.
00:31Welcome to Positive Pose TV, I'm your host Hamza Sabi, and today we dive into the most
00:37groundbreaking moment in wingsuit history, and a-
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00:52On the volcanic cliffs of El Gero in the Canary Islands, something extraordinary took place.
00:58The sky had a quiet tension, the winds were gentle, almost disappointingly soft for any
01:03high-risk experiment.
01:05But that was the secret.
01:08Austrian wingsuit pioneer Peter Salzman wasn't here to fall.
01:12He was here to rise.
01:14With a specially engineered foil wing strapped to his wingsuit, built using the same advanced
01:19simulations used to design Formula One cars, Peter stepped off the cliff, not to plummet,
01:25but to challenge the very laws of physics.
01:28The moment he leaped, the world held its breath.
01:31Instead of dropping through the air, Peter connected with the rising currents along a razor-sharp
01:37ridge.
01:37And then, the impossible.
01:40His altitude meter began to climb.
01:44First a few meters.
01:46Then dozens.
01:48Then a staggering 67 meters of vertical gain, the height of a 22-story building.
01:54No engines.
01:55No propellers.
01:58Just raw aerodynamics, perfect timing, and superhuman skill.
02:03To understand how sensational this achievement truly is, we must compare it with traditional
02:09wingsuit flying.
02:10Normally, wingsuit flights are nothing more than controlled falling.
02:15Even the best pilots lose huge amounts of altitude while gliding.
02:19To gain altitude without mechanical assistance was considered nearly impossible.
02:25The only previous attempts required hurricane-level winds, upwards of 120 kilometers per hour.
02:32But Peter did it in 40 kilometers per hour, the kind of calm wind where even paragliders
02:37can drift casually beside you.
02:39The brilliance lies in the foil wing, lightweight yet powerful enough to generate lift without
02:44transforming the pilot into a paraglider.
02:47This hybrid design demanded Solzmann fly at the edge of a stall, where the wing produces
02:53maximum lift but is seconds away from losing stability.
02:57One small miscalculation, one fraction of a degree off, and the entire flight could have
03:02become deadly.
03:03But Peter mastered this unstable zone with almost surgical precision.
03:09He made multiple 180-degree ridge turns, losing less than 200 meters of altitude over a
03:15full 160-second flight, a performance 10 times more efficient than any ordinary wingsuit flight.
03:21Yes, he admits his turns still need refinement.
03:25Yes, he says he lost altitude where he could have saved it.
03:30But the breakthrough is unmistakable, if he can re-enter the rising air consistently, theoretically
03:36he can stay in the sky indefinitely.
03:38That is not just a stunt, that is a scientific revolution.
03:43Red Ball's geodynamics team didn't just build a wing, they recreated the physics of real mountain
03:49winds using CFD simulations identical to those used to sculpt F1 cars.
03:54Every curve, every edge of the foil wing was calculated to create lift at altitudes where
03:59wingsuits normally have no chance.
04:01El Hierro itself was the perfect stage.
04:05A long mountain ridge parallel to the incoming wind created a natural conveyor belt of rising
04:11air, an invisible ramp to the heavens.
04:14And Peter rode it like he had been doing it his whole life.
04:18This is not simply sports engineering.
04:21This is aerospace evolution.
04:24Peter Solzman has shifted wingsuit flying from a desperate struggle against gravity to a dance
04:29with the wind, where humans don't fall, but choose their direction.
04:34He has shown the world that flight isn't just a dream, it's a skill.
04:38Forty seconds into the soaring flight, Peter crossed the same reference point he had passed
04:43moments earlier.
04:45But this time, he was higher.
04:48His team shouted in disbelief.
04:50The cameras captured something historic, a human gaining altitude like a bird using nothing
04:55but air, skill, and a piece of engineered art strapped to his back.
05:00Peter described the sensation as, crazy.
05:04Scientists called it, game changing.
05:07Red Bull called it, a world first.
05:10And the world?
05:12The world simply watched in awe.
05:15Peter Solzman didn't just fly, he transformed human flight forever.
05:19His soaring wingsuit breakthrough proves something powerful, the limits we believe in are often
05:25nothing more than illusions waiting to be broken.
05:28And here at Positive Post TV, we celebrate the dreamers who dare to challenge the impossible.
05:34If this story inspired you, even for a moment.
05:38But, thanks for watching.
05:40Bye.
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