It 8217;s hard to say exactly how far; inaddition to the local terrain, it depends heavily on your choice of clothes. Asa comment on a BASE jumping records wiki puts it,
如果你要问水平滑翔距离能达到多大，这还真不好说，要看你穿什么衣服。低空跳伞记录页面上的一条评论是这么说的：
The record for longest [fall time] withouta wingsuit is hard to find since the line between jeans and wingsuits hasblurred since the introduction of more advanced . . . apparel.
“不穿翼装的最长下落时间记录很难确定，因为随着更加先进的服装的出现，牛仔裤和翼装之间的区别已经变得很模糊了。”
Which brings us to wingsuits-the halfwaypoint between parachute pants and parachutes.
唔，我们说到了翼装——降落伞裤子和降落伞的中间体。
Wingsuits let you fall much more slowly.One wingsuit operator posted tracking data from a series of jumps. It showsthat in a glide, a wingsuit can lose altitude as slowly as 18 meters persecond-a huge improvement over 55.
穿着翼装下落能够极大地减缓垂直下落速度。一名翼装飞行员在论坛上发布了一组翼装飞行的数据，这些数据显示穿着翼装滑翔的下落速度能够降到每秒只有18米，比之前的每秒55米慢了许多。
Even ignoring horizontal travel, that wouldstretch out our fall to over a minute. That 8217;s long enough for a chess game.It 8217;s also long enough to sing the first verse of-appropriately enough-REM 8217;s“It 8217;s the End of the World as We Know It,” followed by-less appropriately-theentire breakdown from the end of the Spice Girls 8217; “Wannabe.”
即使不算水平滑翔，仅仅是这么低的垂直速度也已经能大大延长坠落时间了。这段时间足够你下完一盘棋，也妥妥地够你听完REM的It 8217;s the End of theWorld as We Know it的第一段，说不定还能听完辣妹组合的Wannabe最后的rap部分——只是可能而已。
When we include the higher cliffs opened upby horizontal glides, the times get even longer.
如果我们算上水平滑翔的话，下落的时间就会更长。
There are a lot of mountains that couldprobably support very long wingsuit flights. For example, Nanga Parbat, amountain in Pakistan, has a drop of more than 3 kilometers at a fairly steepangle. (Surprisingly, a wingsuit still works fine in such thin air, though thejumper would need oxygen, and it would glide a little faster than normal.)
有很多山能让你的翼装飞行持续非常久的时间。比如巴基斯坦的南迦帕尔巴特峰有一段落差超过3000米的很陡的山坡。（令人惊讶的是翼装在这种高度下居然还能正常使用，不过请自备一个氧气瓶，而且滑翔速度会比正常时更快一些。）
So far, the record for longest wingsuitBASE jump is held by Dean Potter, who jumped from the Eiger-a mountain inSwitzerland-and flew for three minutes and twenty seconds.
到目前为止，世界上最久的低空翼装跳伞时间纪录由迪恩•波特保持。他从瑞士的艾格尔峰上跳下来，在空中飞行了3分20秒。
What could you do with three minutes andtwenty seconds?
在这3分20秒内你可以干什么？
Suppose we recruit Joey Chestnut and TakeruKobayashi, the world 8217;s top competitive eaters.
假设我们招来了乔伊•切斯特纳特和小林尊这两位世界顶尖的大胃王。
If we can find a way for them to operatewingsuits while eating at full speed, and they jumped from the Eiger, theycould-in theory-finish as many as 45 hot dogs between them before reaching theground . . .
如果我们能够设法让他们在翼装飞行的时候还能全速吃东西，假如他们从艾格尔峰上跳下来，他们——理论上——能够在落到地面之前吃完45个热狗……
. . . which would, if nothing else, earnthem what just might be the strangest world record in history.
……这样他们就能成为这项可能是最为古怪的世界纪录的共同保持者。
1 For those keeping score, that meansWagner 8217;s is 2,350 times longer.
1．相比之下，瓦格纳的歌剧《尼伯龙根的指环》要比它长2350倍的时间。
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