Skydiving

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. :(

If the hole is bigger the parachute speed will decrease

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!

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.

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.

the circular parachute 134.88m/s its average descent

followed by a parallelogram one

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.

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.

$200 +/-. There are three skydiving centers (drop zones) in Kansas. The cost is fairly consistent at $200.

Martin Myrtle

www.aircapitaldorpzone.com

Wichita Ks

That varies from wind tunnel to wind tunnel. Personally, I have seen kids as young as 3 in tunnels.

In the USA the statistical odds of dying in a skydive are something around a million to one. That said in reality the odds of dying skydiving for all practical purposes depend on the skydiver himself. In excess of 95% of all skydiving fatalities are caused by human error, extremely rare that it's a gear failure. The gear has redundant systems, and is extremely reliable. Also, it typically requires a chain of events to end in a skydiver dying, eliminate any link in that chain and everyone walks away. In other words "Don't do anything stupid, and you'll be fine!"

An average belly-to-earth formation skydiving body position is around 120mph. This is the same speed for a beginners tandem skydive. Freefly headdown skydives are about 160mph. The fastest discipline is speed skydiving where Christian Labhart from Austria recently did 526 km/h average over the vertical kilometer. That is over 320mph!

At the end of the skydive, the competitior must pull out of the headdown streamlined dive and slow down to 120mph to safely open the parachute.

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Touchdown The only necessities are air and gravity. The parachute works with them to decelerate your falling speed from around 120mph, or so, to about one foot per second on landing.

The youngest person to ride a bicycle was Tod Sleeman from Liverpool, UK born on the 19th of September 1991. He was aged 18 months and 3 days.

That depends. An experienced jumper needs to be open by 2000ft, and inexperienced one needs to be open at 2500ft. If you go above 15,000ft above sea level you will need oxygen in the airplane as the air is too thin without it. Most of the jumps are usually around 12,000ft above ground level.

Skydivers who are more interested in the canopy (parachute) flying aspect of skydiving usually exit at around 3000ft to 5000ft and open their parachute just after exit. That maybe for CRW (canopy relative work) or making formations with open parachutes or swooping which is a discipline that focuses on parachute landing with respect to accuracy, distance covered over the ground and skimming across water during landing. Students may do low exits for fun and to improve their canopy handling skills. The cost of a low exit jump (Hop and Pop) is usually lower than a high attitude exit so jumpers on a budget will opt for this type of jump. As someone who has done a few hop and pops onto the beach, it is a lot of fun and variety in jumping is the spice of life.

Commercial operators in New Zealand will take tandem and sports jumpers from 9000ft to 16500ft and the maximum altitude is 20000ft though only a few operators have the aircraft capable or the inclination to do so and a premium is charged for that altitude. Sports jumpers need to have completed a high altitude course and supplementary oxygen is required for such jumps.

That depends on which country you live in. The best way to find out where to skydive is to look for you National skydiving association. For example in the UK, its the British Parachute Association. They hold a list of all parachuting centres (also known as dropzones).

Another way is to use a search engine and type your location, for example 'skydiving Yorkshire'. The vast majority of dropzones have websites and they should appear when you search.

If you are looking to do just a single skydive, it is recommended to do a tandem skydiving jump as your first. This is where you are harnessed to an experienced instructor and you can experience freefall for up to a minute.

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I would add that the first jump method is not "recommended." True, the vast majority of first jumps are done with the tandem system these days. That said, what is best for any particular student depends on the student and his motivation. You can also make a first skydive through Static Line, Instructor Assisted Deployment, and Accelerated Free Fall. Every method of first jump has it's advantages, no method is the best, but many skydivers will tell you that one is better than another. People will push one method over another generally for business reasons, personal opinion, or ignorance of the other training methods.

Have a nice day!

Martin Myrtle

Air Capital Drop Zone

The simple answer is very dangerous indeed. It can be made safer by spending a lot of time and money training to become good in skydiving (min 500 jumps) from aircraft first. You can also reduce the chances of accidents by not jumping in high winds, finding a good mentor, constantly having a learning attitude towards the sport.

Rudolf Baumgartner was born on September 14, 1917 and died on March 22, 2002. Rudolf Baumgartner would have been 84 years old at the time of death or 97 years old today.

It depends on the type of jump and the height you originally jumped from. Tandem jumps open no lower than 4000ft. Solo jumps can be as low as 2000ft, but are usually around 2500ft or higher.

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99.99999% of skydivers live, with the equipment today, the chance of dying is 0.00001%

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