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Terminal velocity. When the parachutes cannot fall any faster.
The reason parachutes were designed was so that people could fall at any height and not get hurt at all.
The spreading of the arms and legs slows the fall and gives the skydiver more control of the fall.
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Yes, skydivers do spend the first several seconds of their jump in free fall. They do not usually open their parachutes until they are about 2,000 feet above the ground. Opening the parachute too soon might cause the parachutist go extremely way off course or result in an updraft that will cause injury.
The surface area, mass and the shape of the parachute affect the time of fall of the parachutes. Also the height, where the parachute have been dropped from. ( There are more factors that this).
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Because it can balance out there weight when they hold out there arms and legs so they wont start flipping.
A round parachute operates as an aerodynamic decelerator. The theory is to put out enough surface area that the resulting drag results in a fall rate that is survivable and that the jumper can walk away. With rectangular parachutes, or ram air, the parachute is more akin to a glider. The parachute is a wing creating lift, so gravity powers it through the air, and drag keeps it from accelerating infinitely.
If you mean by wings slowing its fall. Yes they do the impact is less.
to travel downwards beneath the gravity of the atmosphere and break a persons immediate fall.