Longest wingsuit time of fall

What to remember

A fall lasting 661.29 seconds, or 11 min 01.29 s: that is the wingsuit flight Sebastián Álvarez Orellana completed on 22 March 2025. On the same day he also set the distance record for the discipline, covering 53.45 km. Both marks were ratified.

Staying up that long means turning as much of the fall as possible into glide. That is the job of the wingsuit: fabric wings stretched between the arms and torso and between the legs add surface area, slow the descent and stretch out the horizontal path. A flight starts from an aircraft or a fixed object and ends when the parachute opens.

The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale recognises two competition disciplines in wingsuit flying. Performance flying measures time, horizontal distance and speed; acrobatic flying is judged from a camera flyer's footage of each team's compulsory and free routines.