Skydiving for the insane

jflail2
jflail2 Posts: 2,868
edited August 2007 in The Clubhouse
Crazy as hell
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  • BIZILL
    BIZILL Posts: 5,432
    edited August 2007
    old man's gonna break his hip.

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    I have no facts to back that up, but I never let facts get in the way of my arguments.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited August 2007
    He's going to set the record for the world's fastest corpse.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,605
    edited August 2007
    Face wrote: »
    He's going to set the record for the world's fastest corpse.

    I'd like to see the engineering behind this one.
    Must have some king of stepped plan. A normal chute would either rip away,
    or if strong enough , kill you with the "SNAP".
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  • edbert
    edbert Posts: 1,041
    edited August 2007
    I think the thought is that he will break the sound barrier and then the increasing air density will slow him down on it's own so that by the time his chute deploys he will be going the same speed that he would be on a regular jump.
    I know just enough to be dangerous, but don't tell my wife, she thinks I'm a genius. :D

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  • BIZILL
    BIZILL Posts: 5,432
    edited August 2007
    how the fugg's he gonna find his desired landing zone? sorry, didn't want to read entire story.

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    I have no facts to back that up, but I never let facts get in the way of my arguments.
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  • jflail2
    jflail2 Posts: 2,868
    edited August 2007
    BIZILL wrote: »
    how the fugg's he gonna find his desired landing zone? sorry, didn't want to read entire story.

    He hopes to make the jump over the Great Plains of Saskatchewan in Canada some time next month, weather permitting.

    They apparently chose a pretty large landing zone :D And that's exactly what it sounded like edbert.

    Blows my mind. My dad worked on Tr-1's for many years, so to hear about someone going higher than they go for a jump made me quiver just thinking about it.
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  • lanion
    lanion Posts: 843
    edited August 2007
    I'd be most worried about going into a death spin -- spinning out of control so fast you black out/redout and...well... don't pull your chute.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,605
    edited August 2007
    If you research the trouble planes had with the "sound barrier"
    or even the land speed record, a space suit could prove to be
    a very poor choice. I do agree at some point, air resistance will slow
    him down to "max velocity". The real question is, what would occur prior to
    this point. Also, 9500 feet is still a long way up to hit a chute.
    Someone may need to invest in a super sized spatula for the body
    recovery.:D
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