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Skydiving
Skydiving is a sport in which a person jumps from an aircraft, then free falls for some distance before deploying a parachute to slow their descent back to the ground. Skydiving is also used as a military tactic. It can be a means of quietly getting troops zones.
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Did anybody go sky diving and get killed?
In 2005 there were 27 deaths, and 2.1 million reported skydives.
(This is not "lots" of deaths in comparison to any other "extreme" sport.)
See http://uspa.org/about/page2/relative_safety.htm
http://uspa.org/about/images/memsurvey06.pdf
http://uspa.org/about/images/memsurvey05.pdf
Here are opinions and answers from FAQ Farmers:
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- Of Course, But! The experience is awesome! An expensive sport. But worth the experience! Try it sometimes!
- There are lots of deths in Skydiving because you never know what is going to happen after you jumped off from the plane
Almost all skydiving deaths are down to incompetence. The training is safey, safety safety, so just do what they tell you and you should be fine!
How much would going skydiving cost?
The price varies quite a bit depending on the location (also known as a dropzone) and altitude you choose to jump from. Pricing for a tandem jump in the US varies from $100 to $350. The former will usually get you up to 10,000ft and the latter will usually get you a jump from 18,000ft. For $36,500 you can do a tandem jump at Mt. Everest (29,035ft - 8848m).
What do you call a person who jumps from a plane with a parachute?
A paratrooper?
Either that or SkyDiver
Is it possible to engage in skydiving on the moon?
This depends on the gun and type of explosive charge. If it contains its own oxidizer, it might fire.
Wind primairly affects a parachute at landing causing turbulance, and where ground speed becomes a factor. If flying a ram air parachute with the wind, your ground speed will be wind speed + canopy speed, so not a good configuration to land. Also, wind causes turbulance, which can collapse a canopy.
What are the lowest and highest terminal velocity while skydiving?
In a belly to earth body position, the average terminal velocity of a skydiver is around 120mph. This takes approximately 10 seconds to reach this speed. The most common discipline in the sport is formation skydiving and that takes place in this orientation.
However, the terminal velocity of a skydiver can have variables which can greatly affect this speed:
- The clothing / jumpsuits they wear. Skin-tight nylon is more aerodynamic than rough cordura material. Heavier jumpers tend to wear cordura in their jumpsuits.
- The size and weight of the skydiver. A tall thin person will need to near skin-tight clothing to increase their speed. Otherwise they may fall around 10mph slower. Visa verca a small heavy person may need a baggy cordura jumpsuit to help them reduce their fall rate.
- The orientation of the skydiver. In addition to the belly-to-earth body position, there is also a headup/headdown body position which is used for the discipline of freefly. This is around 150 to 160mph. In fact, in the discipline of speed skydiving, the jumper has no official terminal velocity as they accelerate for the duration of the freefall, often reaching speeds in excess of 300mph.
Whit is the cause of most skydiving accidents?
Over confidence and unfamiliarity with advanced equipment.
What is e advantages of skydiving?
For me skydiving is one of the most amazing sports in the world. There isn't just one reason why I do this extreme sport. But in short:
- The sport is a great leveller of people. You get to meet with and become friends of people from all walks of life, educated, uneducated, bricklayers, layers, posh, not-so-posh. When we skydive, there is no class divide.
- The human body was never designed to fall. So in freefall it gives you a small glimpse into what it must be like to be a bird. Flight put simply, is a beautiful thing.
- You get the opportunity to combine many skills - the ability to think fast, to work in a team, to compete, to communicate in freefall, to navigate and to bend air forcing you to change direction or orientation quickly.
- There are many dropzones, competitions and events which are held around the world. So you get the chance to travel and experience the world from a different perspective.
I jump at a dropzone called Skydive Hibaldstow located near to York, UK. There, they jump from 15000ft. From that height you can see all the way to the coast some 20 miles away. It makes for a beautiful view which in turns makes the sky diving experience even better.
How do you dive wile sky diving?
You breathe underwater using a a open circuit breathing apparatus which is commonly known as "S.C.U.B.A." : self contained underwater breathing apparatus.
The diver carries on his back a aluminum or steel tank, which holds compressed air.
The compressed air is reduced to a safe level to breathe using a demand regulator which is connected to the top of the tank.
This regulator is comprised of 2 stages, the 1st stage brings down the pressure from the tank which is around 2000 to 3000 psi. The pressure reduced air which is around 140 psi then travels down a hose to the 2nd stage which works on a demand system! This is the unit you see next to the divers mouth, the diver creates a seal around the mouth piece much like you would with a snorkel. A piston or a diaphragm holds back the air and only releases it when the diver breathes in. The used air that the diver breathes out is released through two exhaust ports. A scuba diver can spend just under a hour underwater depending on how deep he dives or conditions like water temperature and comfort level.
How many people die in parachuting accidents?
Over a quarter of a million jumps were made in the UK last year and there was not a single fatality.
However, this gives the figures (worldwide) for 2010.
http://www.dropzone.com/fatalities/2010/index.shtml
How do you make an egg parachute?
Very much so. Joe Kittinger went as fast as 714MPH when he jumped from a balloon at an altitude of 102,800ft in 1960. By the time his parachute was deployed he would have been closer to 120MPH. This was meant to answer a different question about atmosphere and speed. My mistake. :(
There are two parachutists who claimed to be the first to jump out of an aeroplane. Both Grant Morton and Captain Albert Berry parachuted from an airplane in 1911 or 1912. Morton had a silk parachute folded in his arms which he threw out as he left the plane. Captain Berry had a 36 foot parachute packed into a metal case beneath the fuselage. The chute had a trapeze bar for him to hold on to as he jumped and descended to the ground.
André-Jacques Garnerin became the first person to make a parachute jump on October 22, 1797. He ascended in a hydrogen balloon and was dropped from about 6,500 feet over Monceau Park in Paris in a parachute 23 feet in diameter. The parachute was made of white canvas with a basket attached. In 1799, Garnerin's wife, Jeanne-Genevieve Garnerin, became the first woman to make a parachute jump. The first freefall jump from an aeroplane was made by Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick in 1914. In WW1 British Pilots were denied parachutes lest they used them to desert their aircraft !
How does the size or shape of a parachute affect the way it works?
If the hole is bigger the parachute speed will decrease
How do you become a skydiving instructor?
Try advertising yourself at local parks or skate shops. If your willing to relocate during the summer woodward skateboarding camp hires instructors. You can check that out a woodwardcamp.com that would be a great job. It is a good place and you get to skate the parks. Lakeowen is another skate camp that hires instructors. That is also during the summer. You can now get Certified and be eligible for insurance through Skateboard Instructors Association or www.skateboardia.org. SkateboardIA breaks down the initial moves you will teach into thee basic steps and actually teaches you how to teach using the intial Prof Skiers model. 16 hours for certification. Earn extra money having fun. Good luck!
What is the longest distance a man has fallen without a parachute and survived?
Vesna Vulović (Serbian: Весна Вуловић) (born 3 January 1950) holds the Guinness Book of Records world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 meters (33,316 feet).
The fall occurred on January 26, 1972, over Srbská Kamenice in Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), after JAT Yugoslav Flight 364, on which Vulović was a flight attendant, exploded. The cause of the explosion has never been established, but was attributed by the Yugoslav and Czechoslovakian authorities to a bomb placed on the plane by a Croatian Terrorist group, known as the Ustaša. The explosion tore the DC-9-32 to pieces in mid-air, and she was the only survivor. Vulović says that she was found in the middle section of the plane.
When was Parachute Jump created?
While there had previously been designs of parachutes and failed attempts to use them, the first functional parachute was invented and demonstrated by Sebastian Lenormand in 1783.
How do you make a slow parachute?
the circular parachute 134.88m/s its average descent
followed by a parallelogram one
How old do you have to be for skydiving?
That depends on which country you live in. In the United Kingdom, you can skydive from the age of 16 onwards with parental consent. I jump at a place called Skydive Hibaldstow which is a part of the British Parachute Association and a form will need to be signed by your parents or legal guardian.
Now if you live in the USA, I think the age is 18.
After three seconds what is the skydiver's velocity?
Being a layman, this will be a lay answer until an expert, or skydiver improves it. As I recall, the acceleration of gravity is 32 feet per second per second. My calculations suggest that in a vacuum, the skydiver's velocity would be 288 feet per second, or 196 miles per hour. However, since the diver is falling through the air of the atmosphere, there is frictional resistance, resulting in what is called drag, which limits the falling speed. Depending on the weight of the diver, the size and amount of loose clothing the diver wears, there will be a limited maximum speed of fall, refered to as terminal velocity, generally in the range of 120 to 125 miles per hour.
The answer is yes you can. It is much more common however to jump from a fixed wing aircraft rather than a helicopter. Typical helicopters that you can jump from are the Mi-8 and the Belly Huey. They are often available at boogies or Russian dropzones.
How much does it cost to skydive in Oklahoma?
$200 +/-. There are three skydiving centers (drop zones) in Kansas. The cost is fairly consistent at $200.
Martin Myrtle
www.aircapitaldorpzone.com
Wichita Ks
How old do you have to be to go indoor skydiving?
That varies from wind tunnel to wind tunnel. Personally, I have seen kids as young as 3 in tunnels.
