What about Luke Aikins, who jumped without a parachute into a net from 25000 feet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qF_fzEI4wU
Altitude doesn't really make a difference past ~1,500 feet. At that point, you've hit terminal velocity.
I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived
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#33Related: A Serbian flight attendant who survived a fall of 10,160 metres without a parachute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87
Tangently related: Israeli F-15 pilot who loses a wing in a mid-air collision and still successfully lands. https://theaviationist.com/2014/09/15/f-15-lands-with-one-wi... Interesting tidbit: they slapped a replacement wing on and returned the aircraft to service.
And totally different tangent, GM will not warranty a C7 because of a minor crack on the chassis[1] so it's declared totaled and offered for 7.5 grand or so.
[1]http://gmauthority.com/blog/2017/09/one-tiny-crack-led-a-c7-...
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#34What about Luke Aikins, who jumped without a parachute into a net from 25000 feet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qF_fzEI4wU
Altitude doesn't really make a difference past ~1,500 feet. At that point, you've hit terminal velocity.
I know, the point was that he landed without parachute. If I had a choice to jump at 1500 feet or 25000 without a parachute, I would take the latter option.
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#35At least the life vest inflated!
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#36Awesome read. Can anyone explain the quote below? I don't really understand how the minesweeper understood the signal. --- The Coast Guard amphibian gained altitude and flew off. (I learned later that he headed for a squadron of minesweepers that was returning to the United States from a tour of the Western Pacific. He was unable to tune to their radio frequency for communications. But this ingenious pilot lowered a…
They were dragging it perpendicular across the front of the ship, so, the wire is like a hand waving "this way, follow the line", which was pointed towards the location of the guy.
It is not a standard or anything, so abnormal enough to get the drift.
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#37Huh, an F-8, just like Lt Col William Rankin who spent over 40 minutes stuck in a thundercloud after ejecting from his F-8:
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#38What about Luke Aikins, who jumped without a parachute into a net from 25000 feet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qF_fzEI4wU
or the guy who wing-suited into cardboard boxes https://youtu.be/DEP8juRSBRo?t=1m33s (headphone warning: loud)
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tangently related: Israeli F-15 pilot who loses a wing in a mid-air collision and still successfully lands. https://theaviationist.com/2014/09/15/f-15-lands-with-one-wi... Interesting tidbit: they slapped a replacement wing on and returned the aircraft to service.
And totally different tangent, GM will not warranty a C7 because of a minor crack on the chassis[1] so it's declared totaled and offered for 7.5 grand or so. [1] http://gmauthority.com/blog/2017/09/one-tiny-crack-led-a-c7-...
https://jalopnik.com/heres-how-a-corvette-was-totaled-becaus...
A small crack, but not minor.