Skydiving

[Ugly Bastard]

Originally Posted by Beebs

You're telling me he had enough faith in his ability to hit those boxes, or fucking die?

Yes 100%. Hitting that big target would not be too difficult at all. Anyone with a ton of wingsuit experience is comfortable piloting it in extremely close proximities. It's easy to adjust rate of descent and trajectory with those suits. Basically he knew he could steer himself into the boxes without too much problem.

Dude just watch the video again and notice the rate and speed at which he is coming in and then imagine him hitting the ground directly with his body. He would bounce and be dead on impact.

[Beebs]

I still think that's a survivable motorcycle crash.

[Ironic Mustache]

I don't know what the actual MPH impact is, but it's head on. Assuming that the natural, terminal human velocity is what I'm conservatively guessing (given the slowing of the suit) is AT BEST still around 60 MPH. My extensive experience in the motorcycle injury field leads me to believe that he would have been liquified. Not just dead, liquified.

[Ugly Bastard]

Insane video of an 80 year old woman on a tandem (skip to 2:00 mark): Tandem skydiving goes terribly wrong (Video) : theCHIVE

[Beebs]

Originally Posted by Ironic Mustache

I don't know what the actual MPH impact is, but it's head on. Assuming that the natural, terminal human velocity is what I'm conservatively guessing (given the slowing of the suit) is AT BEST still around 60 MPH. My extensive experience in the motorcycle injury field leads me to believe that he would have been liquified. Not just dead, liquified.

Disagree; he pulls up before impact, with his head above his feet, sort of like a 20 degree angle.

We need to figure out just how much force those boxes dissipate.

I guy I used to work with drove his bike through a deer at 140, shattered every bone from his knuckles to his elbow.

[Ironic Mustache]

Originally Posted by Ugly Bastard

Insane video of an 80 year old woman on a tandem (skip to 2:00 mark): Tandem skydiving goes terribly wrong (Video) : theCHIVE

It looks like that might have started because she was refusing to jump and started slipping out of her pack at the door.

[Ugly Bastard]

He deployed really early (smart) and tandem canopies descend really slowly. He was probably up there for 10+ minutes with that woman strapped to him likely being completely hysterical if not also continuing to present a challenge that she wouldn't fall out of the harness. That must have sucked.

[Orgazmo]

Is it normal that he forced her out of the plane?

[Ugly Bastard]

I've never seen or heard of anyone needing to be physically forced out but I would say as a protocol it's probably abnormal for a tandem master to do that when the passenger is very obviously refusing to get out of the plane.

[Ironic Mustache]

Holy shit I thought the place looked familiar but just assumed most places look like that. That happened at the same place I jumped.