We'd like to send out a huge congratulations to Squirrel Team Pilot, Andy Farrington, who took 1st place at the inaugural RedBull Aces event flying his Squirrel proto. Almost 20 Squirrel team pilots participated in this event, and Squirrel suits took first overall and saw many pilots in the final rounds and top eight places. The RedBull Aces Event is the most exciting wingsuit race on the planet, and is the only race in which pilots fly head-to-head through a course that is at safe skydiving altitudes. It is by far the most exciting, most competitive, and probably the safest event in wingsuit flying. Why aren't all competition formats like this? The answer is simple: Wingsuit BASE race events are comparatively cheap and easy to organize. The Aces event takes wingsuit racing to the next level, and RedBull is the only company that has so far been willing to take a risk of this magnitude to bring a genuinely fascinating and legitimate wingsuit competition into the public eye.

At the event the majority of Squirrel pilots flew the new Colugo 2, which is in its final revision and will be available to order soon. There are a few key innovations in this wingsuit that have not been seen before, including mini-ribs at the leading edge of the arm wing which create the smoothest forward-chord section ever seen on a wingsuit, a stiff / slick / wrinkle-resistant Dacron coated leading edge material, super-low-drag arm wing inlets, and an advanced profile developed specifically for speed and stability at steep angles of attack. We delivered the Colugo 2 to most of our team pilots on Friday, and Tuesday morning they were racing them in head to head heats, and winning. A huge thank you to all of the pilots who trusted us and were patient with us during the development of this exciting new design.