The Bodyflight wind tunnel at a diameter of 5m (16.4ft) and a flight area 8m (26.25ft) tall, offers flyers real space to manoeuvre!
Producing up to 4000 HP of airflow, our size, power and air quality is unrivalled. All types of flyers are welcome from whether you’re a complete beginner or a world champion we are able to offer flights at prices that suit you.
How does it work?
Bodyflight is a recirculation wind tunnel. Air is drawn up though the central flight chamber by the massive propeller at the top. The air passes the propeller and continues into the ‘Air returns’; these are the hollow walls surrounding the flight chamber. The air travels all the way down to the base of the tunnel where it is directed back upwards again into the flight chamber.
This style of tunnel provides perfect wall to wall and net to net air quality with no drop offs and no loss of lift.
Since opening in September 2005 Bodyflight has expanded to include some new facilities.
FlowHouse
Opened in May 2010 nearly five years after the wind tunnel first opened FlowHouse signals the start of a new sport on the Bodyflight site. Flowboarding is the latest board sport taking the world by storm. It combines all the best bits from surfing, wakeboarding, snowboarding and skate boarding, wrapping them neatly up into one new and exciting sport. FlowHouse centres around a 10-metre wide sheet wave called a FlowRider that allows you to surf on the surface on specially designed boards.
How does it work?
A Flow rider sprays a sheet of water, about four inches deep, over a trampoline like ride surface. This water then disperses through small holes In the grating at the back of the ride where is rejoins the water tanks underneath the ride surface.
It then travels though the filter system to be cleaned before going though the pumps and back out of the nozzles onto the ride surface to be re-circulated once again.
Vertigo
Launched in September 2008 Vertigo is the extremely popular 30 metre simulated BASE jump from the top of the Bodyflight tower. You are placed in a full body harness attached to a Power Fan decender and leap from the top of the tower experiencing freefall before you gently touch down on the landing platform below.
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