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Just jump out of a plane

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jibberkid69
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with all these crazy mother fuckers doing cliffs over 200, why not just jump out of a plane. im pretty sure that after 200-250ft of dropping you'd be cruising it at terminal velocity, so really, the impact would be the same. so someone (jamie pierre) should just jump out of a plane without a parachute and stomp it
Mar 29 2006 7:46PM
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chrismoJBEATS
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yeah haha
wit skis on???
Mar 29 2006 7:50PM
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doitbig
Posts: 4818 - Karma: 315
what kinda plane flies at 250 feet?
Mar 29 2006 7:52PM
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chrismoJBEATS
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hah that too
Mar 29 2006 7:56PM
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SkeetMasta
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c-130's do
Mar 29 2006 7:57PM
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Ahmets_Brother
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i think he means drop from higher than 250 because yoru alrady at the same speed as you would be from 1000 feet....but thats so sketchy with wind and shit
Mar 29 2006 7:59PM
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Pman13a
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that would be tight as shit, and its true thats probably your maximum velocity
Mar 29 2006 8:47PM
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Melvs
Posts: 15174 - Karma: 480
I don't think 250 ft gets you to terminal velocity... however, it's close, and as soon as people figure out they can drop something beig enough to reach that, and walk away, lord knows we're going to see some insane things.
Mar 29 2006 8:53PM
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AKFREERIDE
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Its not. you dont reach terminal velocity for quite a long fall. my friend whos know in college figured this out last year. i heard about pierres drop potential of 250 or somethin feet and i thought hed be at terminal. i mean, if you do 250, why not like 400.

I was wrong. as are you. my friend turned out to be a physics nerd, along with a damn good skier. anyway, he figured out what terminal velocity and the drop needed to reach it and i dont remember it exactly, but it was way more. like 600 to reach maximum speed.

he figured all of that out in his head and scribbling on a Orbit gum box. it was crazy.
Mar 29 2006 8:58PM
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BusyJohnSohn
Posts: 3483 - Karma: 29
or they could just sky dive with skis on, they could do like 4 hundred backflips and then in your profile you could write 400 backflips as your best trick.
Mar 29 2006 9:01PM
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IcePointa
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you get terminal velocity at about 400 or so i think.

I wanna see someone use a wingsuit and land on skis without a suit, that might happen someday, and itd be the ultimate hi-lo jump.
Mar 29 2006 9:03PM
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billy092
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that would be sick, i wanna go skydiving so bad
Mar 29 2006 9:06PM
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IcePointa
Posts: 1879 - Karma: 19
Lemme rephrase this. I want to see someone land with a wingsuit but not a parachute. The wingsuits have a decent glide ratio and would take away a good portion of the impact.
Mar 29 2006 9:08PM
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C_Ewart
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Haha.
Mar 29 2006 9:09PM
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Melvs
Posts: 15174 - Karma: 480
ya, if I knew the coeff of drag due to air it wouldn't be a super hard problem to figure out...

in fact this is the simle equation:

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Vt=terminal velocity
m=170 pounds = 77.1107029 kg
g=9.81 m/s^2
Cd=drag coefficient= 1.3
ρ=1.29 kg/m^3
A= approx 1 m^3

anyone who wants to figure it out...

so Vt=38.74600 (meters / second) = 86.6723336 mph

I'm bored now, but that's the velocity you'll be reaching, and I know that pierre and others doing 20+ footers are going around 60.
Mar 29 2006 9:12PM
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jameslovesponies
Posts: 306 - Karma: 8
^^^yah word wingsuits have like a 2:1 glide ratio so you could probably drop 40,000 and be about the same speed falling as pierre on a 200 or so drop except a smooth pow landing on a soooooooooper steep slope would be critical because you would be going like uber fast laterally
Mar 29 2006 9:13PM
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skiierman
Posts: 28699 - Karma: -5,563
Bahahahha terminal at 200ft? Come on now, it's around 1,000ft. you dummy heads.
Mar 29 2006 10:35PM
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cjb1776
Posts: 599 - Karma: 10
jumping off a cliff is cheaper than using a plane
Mar 29 2006 10:37PM
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ajax
Posts: 2852 - Karma: 1,245
even if it were possible, jumping out of a plane isn't even skiing, it would just be an insane stunt
Mar 29 2006 10:43PM
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iskilibertys
Posts: 996 - Karma: 23
cheaper than a plane, but you use a helicopter most of the time to get up there, so you could jump out of the helicopter instead, even though terminal velovity is not even close to 250 feet ad youd probably die
Mar 29 2006 10:45PM
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Arabian.
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It was sick what jamie pierre did, its just, he's an asshole, or so i've heard, and i hate how he's always like, 'jesus was on my side, blabla bla jesus. god jesus. jesus touched my balls.' religious people piss me off.
Mar 29 2006 10:47PM
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