Wingsuit flight over Kok-Tobe
With the support of the Akimat of Almaty @akimat_almaty and the Tourism Department of Almaty @almatytourism, for the first time in the history of Kazakhstan, the stars of skydiving, the @redbullskydiveteam team made a wingsuit jump! Given the worldwide fame of the athletes of the Red Bull Skydive Team and the Red Bull company as a whole, whose reach is more than 11 million subscribers on Instagram alone, media materials with a jump where our beloved city of Almaty became the scene is a great opportunity to demonstrate the uniqueness of our city to the whole world. Athletes of the international air acrobatics team Red Bull Skydive Team carried out a successful wingsuit flight over Almaty, bypassing the Kok-Tobe TV tower. This is the first wingsuit jump in Kazakhstan. The team visited Kazakhstan for the first time in 2017. Then the athletes made a base jump jump from the roof of the Nur-Sultan skyscraper and noted that they liked Kazakhstan. Marco Waltenspiel, Marco Furst and Daniel De La Blanca visited Almaty for the first time. The flights took place on June 18 and 20 in coordination with all responsible services of the city. The AN-2 aircraft delivered the athletes to the designated ejection point at an altitude of about 4,000 meters, which was geographically located above the Butakovka Gorge. The flight of athletes in the air on wing suites was about two minutes. The athletes rounded the Kok-Tobe TV tower, flying from it only 10m at an altitude of 220m, and landed on a hill. The Almaty Tourism Department, Visit Almaty Company and the city Akimat helped the Red Bull Skydive team to make this unique jump a reality and solve all organizational issues. The Emergency Department of Almaty ensured the safety of the landing points. Wingsuit – “wing suit”, or as it is also called “flying squirrel” – is a professional suit for aerial acrobatics, the design of which allows the incoming air flow to fill the wings between the legs, arms and body of the pilot, allowing the athlete to make a planning flight. The horizontal flight speed develops up to 250 km/h.
Wingsuit flight over the Big Almaty Lake
Полет на вингсьютах. Часть 2. Теперь над БАО. Команда воздушных акробатов Red Bull Skydive Team Flying on wingsuits. Part 2. Now over BAO. The team of aerial acrobats Red Bull Skydive Team carried out the second flight – over the Big Almaty Lake. The athletes made a jump from a height of 4,000 meters from the southeastern side of the lake, crossed it in free flight and landed successfully. The flight took place on June 21, 2019. The flights were organized with the support of Visit Almaty, the Akimat of Almaty and the Almaty Tourism Department @kikimov_maksat. Red Red Bull Skydive Team is an international team. Marco Waltenspiel and Marco Furst live and train in Austria, Daniel De La Blanca – in Spain. ⠀ “We conduct joint trainings every month. We train in all disciplines of skydiving, we focus on flying. It is very important to know how your team members act in flight. After all, during a free fall you can’t communicate, so you need to know everyone as well as yourself,” Marco Wurst shared the secrets of the aeronautical cuisine. The development of flights over Kok-Tobe and BAO was carried out for a month and a half. And yet, until the moment of takeoff, the project could be canceled at any moment. By winter, it will be time to develop new projects, including athletes who plan to return to discussing a new ambitious project in Almaty, the details of which have not yet been disclosed.
