VKB is an acronym for Værdal'n

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og BASE, a BASE jumping group based in

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

, Norway. They specialize in high-speed tracking and proximity flying: wingsuit flight close to the mountain side. The group takes its name from a jump from a crane at

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. Most of the members know each other from the former

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. They decided in 2003 to take a scientific approach to the sport, and have been designing their own tracking suits to achieve a better glide ratio."Leker med Livet"
''Byavisa'', 13 May 2008, These suits started out as simple modifications of normal outdoor clothing and have evolved to the Grusomme Gratis Gunda 3, or G3. The group have unusual access to testing facilities, including sophisticated computer modelling and a

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, enabling them to fine-tune their designs. VKB AS is registered as a manufacturer of clothing and other textile products. They also use a special program to log

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readings 20 times a second to accurately record a flight. Using the mountain face as a "vertical runway", members have been able to achieve unpowered horizontal flight at speeds of . VKB's first DVD, ''SuperTerminal'', released in autumn 2005, showcasing proximity flying,Chris McNamara
"A Short and Too Eventful BASE Jumping Career"
Sportgevity, retrieved 30 July 2014. received good reviews from the BASE and skydiving community. Part One of the feature is purely tracking whilst Part Two is Wingsuit flying. As bonus material there is over an hour of footage from Norway and

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, some of which was previously published on skydivingmovies.com. VKB have also released several short movies online.

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External links

Værdal'n Karsk og BASE
at Offheading.com Parachuting organizations Sports clubs and teams in Norway