We're adding a lot of content to the site this week. First of all, check out the Colugo video if you haven't already. It discusses some of the suit's key features. Also, we just put up a clip which demonstrates (in addition to what is already shown in the Colugo presentation video), what the Colugo is capable in terms of glide, click here for that.

Also, we've put up a few Reviews from the early adopters of the suit, and we will be setting a Squirrel Team page and bringing back the Squirrel People page in the next few days. Check back soon.

Cheers from all the Squirrel Team... Enjoy your suits, and fly like an animal ;-)

Right now our factory is in full production, and we are receiving several suits per week at our base in the USA where they are then inspected and re-shipped within 24hrs to our customers around the world.
First and foremost, we'd like to send a huge thanks to our customers, who have been waiting for many months in some cases. We really appreciate your patience and hope you'll agree that it's worth the wait.

For those of you who are considering playing with a Squirrel this summer season, our advice is to place your order as soon as you can. Orders placed now (up to mid-April) will definitely be shipped before the end of June. Our intention is to keep delays under two months throughout the summer but demand has been greater than we expected, so this may be difficult.

Stay tuned for a short edit describing some of the Colugo's features... and cheers from all the Squirrel Team, we hope to see you up there this summer.

We have taken the viewpoint that if there is an important feature that is needed on your wingsuit, then it should be standard and you should not have to pay extra. High quality rubber soles, carbon-fiber grip sticks, chest pockets and belly-cam access points, the handy nut-sack, and more… all of these things are standard in every Squirrel suit. Click on the image at left, or here, to see a quick summary of what you get when you order your suit. Cheers, from all the Squirrel Team!

We've just received some custom colored high-strength YKK #10 coil zips. We will be using these on all of the crucial load-bearing parts of the suit, and you'll be able to choose between five different colors when you order. All custom color options are free of charge, and we can work with you to add accent colors beyond what will be available on the order form. We will also be offering some excellent logo work, stay tuned for more info and photos.

We're still refining some details, and have recently added carbon fiber grippers to both the Colugo and Aura. These ultralight and stiff carbon sticks feel great in the air, and shave a few grams off of your pack as well. We're excited about this addition and will be making them a standard option (no extra charge) on all of our suits.

Our first suit, the Colugo, is now in a final prototype phase. We had originally planned to release the first Colugos during the summer, but with each round of prototypes the design improved and we decided to continue working through the end of the season here, and do a limited release during the northern hemisphere winter. The Colugo is our suit of choice for serious terrain flying in big mountains. A fast start, high agility, and plenty of power to pull out of dives are its key qualities. More info can be found on the Colugo product page.

Developing this suit was a lot of fun! We have been jumping various prototypes since the beginning of 2012, and the summer testing took us all over the Alps, from the Vercors to Lauterbrunnen and the Dolomites, as well as many helicopter jumps in Germany and Switzerland. We hope that you enjoy flying this suit as much as we did making it.

What's our story? Well, the shortest possible answer is, "If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself."

Here's a bit more detail: We had been discussing the idea of creating our own wingsuit design for several years, but this idea gained momentum during the summer of 2011. The initial plan was not to produce suits to sell to the public, but make just a few custom suits for ourselves to fly; our dream was to have exactly what we wanted, without having to ask anyone else to make it.

In early 2012, we secured production capacity in the Ozone Paragliders Workshop and suddenly had the possibility to produce wingsuits for more than just ourselves. Since then, we have been through a whirlwind of progress and design progression. We have experimented with a wide range of possible designs, from complex rigid wings with expanding cutaway sleeves to the most basic constructions of nylon and thread. We have pursued designs that focused purely on glide performance, and designs with only comfort and ease of use as the end goal. Luc Armant, a fluid dynamics expert and a designer for Ozone Paragliders, has driven our profile / planform development and we have made prototypes with a wide range of profiles of varying camber and thicknesses.

The overriding lesson for us during this development has been that by far the most important design parameter is safety. For us, approaching the design table with anything else in the forefront of our minds is not an option. The key points for every design we make are: cleanest pull possible, most dependable wing pressurization, and the most stable and “balanced” trim flight. Glide and speed, while very important to us, are secondary and we believe that no performance advantage is worth dying for.

Our first suit, the Colugo (google it if you want to know what it means), is our all-mountain terrain flyer for pilots of intermediate to expert ability – pilots who want to carve the terrain and fly the most aggressive lines will love the agility and power of the Colugo. Other models will follow shortly; the Aura, our “big” suit, will satisfy pilots for whom maximum glide is the priority, and our beginner suit, meant for your first flights, will be coming soon. Anyway, that’s enough for now, stay tuned for more info.

Cheers, from Matt and all the Squirrel Team.