---
title: "Ex-Navy SEAL Sets Wingsuit World Record"
description: "Going loco at 36,000 feet (for a good cause)."
date: "2015-11-03"
modified: "2015-11-03"
authors:
  - name: "Max Goldberg"
    job_title: "Associate Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-goldberg.md"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/743/ex-navy-seal-sets-wingsuit-world-record"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "Racing"
---

# Ex-Navy SEAL Sets Wingsuit World Record

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When jumping out of an airplane just isn’t intense enough, try setting *a world record* while jumping out of an airplane. That’s how a skydiving expert’s mind works. That’s how Andy Stumpf’s mind works. Stumphf, a former Navy SEAL and current badass, was looking to raise funds and awareness for families of fallen SEALs. His idea: Set the wingsuit world record for farthest distance traveled.

![screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-4.22.47-pm.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/screen-shot-2015-11-03-at-4.22.47-pm.jpg>)

This video tracks his endeavour, from planning to decent. From roughly 36,000 feet, Stumphf plunges at 160 mph over the mountains, through a balmy atmospheric temperature of -52ºF. When all’s said and done, he has successfully traveled 18.257 miles across the California landscape.

*For more on Andy Stumpf, you can check out an interview [here](<https://stayloud.skullcandy.com/stories/questions-andy-stumpf/?utm_source=youtubr&utm_medium=social&utm_content=stories&utm_campaign=andystumpf>).*

https://youtube.com/embed/C9P7JvdUQ98

## Author
Before working at *The Drive*, Max Goldberg raced the streets of Westchester in an ambulance as a licensed Emergency Medical Technician. He has boundless enthusiasm.

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/maxems>)

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