http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070209-wingsuit.html

Will "Flying Squirrel" Suit Let Skydivers Jump Without Chutes?

This is probably one of the coolest articles that I have read in a while. It is about how we have used technology that we learned from animals to do something that is absolutely amazing. This is article is about how we have taken the idea of how a flying squirrel works and created a skydiving suit to resemble it and to land without a parachute. The suit is comprised of rigid wings on the arms and between the legs. The suit slows the falling rate of a human from one hundred and twenty miles an hour to just thirty miles an hour which is survivable but the only problem is that with the suit there is also forward speed that plays into part that could potentially be lethal. They are working on a forward breaking system so that you can use the suit without a parachute.