tdog 0 #1 August 15, 2005 Ok, so this post is half way between the bonfire and legit skydiving.... In the quest to land a super small canopy and a wing suit, now the TV has shown us it is POSSIBLE to land a RAFT! On Mythbusters, they take "buster" the crash test dummy out for some helicopter "jumps"... On the round life raft he falls out twice and goes in at terminal (or near terminal) - and you get to see exactly what a body looks like as it goes in with the high speed camera, and what is left of it after. Good wakeup call to respect the sport if you ever find yourself getting a little lazy... Thank god I have not seen this first hand with a real human, and I hope I never have to. They, on the third jump, suspend him under the raft and he actually does pretty good using the raft as a canopy... Broken bones, but would have lived... On the rectangular DC10 slide/raft, he actually lands without a single broken bone and the G Force sensors show he would have lived quite easily... They say on the show that the raft would never be able to exit a plane, so the myth is "busted". I sent an e-mail to the host, Adam, linking a picture of the SIM cover (raft dive) and the video of raft dives from SkydivingMovies.com. He actually responded to me that "but you would not want to land that, would ya?" I think he has a point, the raft loading on the SIM cover is just way to high. It is like 20 to 1, whereas buster landed a raft loaded 1 to 1 like a good respectable student. The show is on skydiving movies: http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=2554 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BlindBrick 0 #2 August 15, 2005 Meh, why bother with a life raft? All you really need is to have the good firtune of your airliner disintegrating with a snow covered mountain nearby. It worked for that stewardess in Europe. -Blind"If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
