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Article #326Re: Vacation / Road Map
From: larry
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 00:54
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 00:54
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>> FYI, balloon and helicopter jumps are the only skydives in which you >> ever feel like you're falling > > Well, I jumped out of a plane once, Cool! > and I felt like I was falling... Nah, it was just windy. LOL When you jump out of a plane you basically start your dive at about 80mph into the wind in the direction the plane is going, and over the course of the next several seconds that speed gradually increases to 115-120mph and your movement through the air transitions to vertical (i.e, you accelerate as you move through an arc). You never experience the full feeling of falling because there's always significant resistance from the air. But if you jump from a balloon or a helicopter, you start out in still air--no air resistance--initially and as a result feel a much greater sense of falling at the beginning of the jump than when jumping from a plane. In any case, you still won't see me 4000' up in an open box without my parachute. ;-) Larry
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