leroydb 0 #1 October 16, 2002 I am sure this has been thought of just not sure anyone has talked about it here. How about wearing a baggy suit falling really slow (Lets say 100 mph) Could you spot your self onto an open wind tunnel and "be caught" by the upward blowing air? say 100 or 120mph...? thoughts besides that I am crazy... if it wasnt for people like me, or the rest of us... we might not be jumping out of planes......Leroy ..I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #2 October 16, 2002 From your website.. I am an avid skydiver ...under construction...... When you are finished being constructed, I would not suggest you try this....It won't work. Unless you want to be deconstructed by horrendous deceleration trauma.... A better suggestion would be to strap a wind tunnel prop and turbine to your belly, and moments before impact, fire that sucker up and levitate to safety.... The baggy suit is critical to all this, you would need a baggy suit to house the turbine, and associated fuel tank, or fuel cell, and controls. You would need a turbine cos a regular pistion engine would be too slow and unreliable starting up, and its probably too bulky to fit on your belly.... You would have to be 100% sure that you could fly the assembly around and remain stable, otherwise, if you flip onto your back, the turbine and prop assembly would drive you into the ground. Please let us know how you get on.-------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bluefingers 0 #3 October 16, 2002 LMAO @ nacmac - I guess that answers it Kerry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ernokaikkonen 0 #4 October 16, 2002 >Could you spot your self onto an open wind tunnel and "be >caught" by the upward blowing air? No. Even if you hit the tunnel, you'll go screaming through the column of upward blowing air, and someone will be scraping you off the bottom of the tunnel. You see, the height of the column that actually is going 160 kph, is probably around 5 meters tall. You'd have to decelerate from terminal velocity to zero in 5 meters... That's not going to happen. And if it did, you'd still die from decelaration trauma. There'd be way too many G's. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ernokaikkonen 0 #5 October 16, 2002 >A better suggestion would be to strap a wind tunnel prop and >turbine to your belly, and moments before impact, fire that >sucker up and levitate to safety.... Wait wait wait... Check this out: You could, like, take a really big piece of cloth, and strap that on to yourself somehow, and then before impact, spread that cloth so that it decelerates your velocity to a survivable rate. You think it might work? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BPO 0 #6 October 16, 2002 DAMN! You might just have something there, Erno.. Maybe you should give it a try anytime soon and get the whole idea patented?! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #7 October 16, 2002 Nice idea Erno, but its not really very Hi tech..... I've seen sketches similar to the thing you describe by a dude called Leonard Da Quirm.... I don't know if he actually built it though.I know my friend Adrian..self confessed 'eccentric aviator' built and jumped a replica though...pics atached, ok to open erno. No fat elvis here yet.... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ernokaikkonen 0 #8 October 16, 2002 >I've seen sketches similar to the thing you describe by a dude >called Leonard Da Quirm.... I don't know if he actually built it though. >I know my friend Adrian..self confessed 'eccentric aviator' built >and jumped a replica though...pics atached, Wasn't ballsy enough to land it though, I hear... >ok to open erno. No fat elvis here yet Bloody hell, now I have to keep watching over my shoulder and be paranoid about all your attachments... Might as well get it over with Whew! Well it was not pretty, but it was nowhere near the boobies/dentures-pic. Sorry to spoil your fun... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #9 October 16, 2002 "Wasn't ballsy enough to land it though, I hear... " Not surprised either, 20-30 kilos of pine and canvas over your head, and no option to swoop the energy out of it.... He might be eccentric, but he's no fool. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ernokaikkonen 0 #10 October 16, 2002 Ahh. Yes of course. I guess old Leo didn't think it all through then: "If a man have a tent of closely woven linen without any apertures (openings) 12 braccia across and 12 in depth, he can throw himself down from any great height without injury." until the said 'tent' crashes on the man's head, that is. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FallRate 0 #11 October 16, 2002 You could go the easy route and wear a rig. Yeah, too damn simple. FallRate Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #12 October 16, 2002 "I guess old Leo didn't think it all through then: " The idea was good, but I think the Skyvan was busy the day he went to test jump it, and he couldn't fit the frame inside the local DZ's cessna...I think a braccia is equal to about 2 metres....so even if the skyvan was available he would have had a hard time fitting it in. Besides, his reserve was probably up for a repack... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scratch 0 #13 October 16, 2002 On a different note. If the old mad could see a modern canopy. I wonder what wild improvements he could come up with Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #14 October 16, 2002 "If the old man could see a modern canopy. I wonder what wild improvements he could come up with Umm, didn't he found the Relative Workshop, invent the marvellous 3 ring release system, and develop tandem jumping so that more people can play with us in the sky? hehe, sorry Bill -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scratch 0 #15 October 16, 2002 Bwhahahahahaha. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jraf 0 #16 October 16, 2002 You guys are hopeless in your faith in science. I believe in the power of mind. Landing through meditation. We all know that meditation leads to levitation, hence jump, meditate REAL hard and land gently in a pink and purple aura to the tunes of hindu music! jraf Me Jungleman! Me have large Babalui. Muff #3275 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bluefingers 0 #17 October 16, 2002 you haven't had your coffee yet have you? Kerry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jraf 0 #18 October 16, 2002 Now I had my coffee!!! What was the '60s song by Paul Anka :"Waking up is hard to, hard to do, and now I know, I know that it's true....." jraf Me Jungleman! Me have large Babalui. Muff #3275 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
happythoughts 0 #19 October 16, 2002 Let's do the math. Going 175 feet per sec. Wind tunnel stack is 20 feet high, so you will go through it 1/8 or 1/9 of a sec. Decelerating from 110 miles per hour to zero in 1/8 of a second? Yep, it would make you famous. You just couldn't do it twice. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slappie 9 #20 October 16, 2002 I think your onto something jraf. I really really think the Bugs Bunny method is by far most superior to anything you jokers have come up with yet. Have you seen the one where he's flying a B-17 an the gremlin comes an makes the plane blow up.. Well Bugs is on his way to meet the maker at 5,000mph then just before he hits the ground he holds up a STOP sign an stops. He then just lightly steps off an walks away. Now that is the way to go without a rig on!! "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #21 October 16, 2002 You watch way too much TV Slap... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slappie 9 #22 October 16, 2002 Ya think? But it's educational TV at least! "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stacy 0 #23 October 16, 2002 the same idea always worked for the coyote and roadrunner. as many times as that coyote hit the ground, he always was back in the next episode with out a scar. parachutes are expensive and overrated. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #24 October 16, 2002 "But it's educational TV at least! " "Bugs is on his way to meet the maker at 5,000mph " That educational TV really works Besides, Bugs, Wile E, and Taz etc only ever impact if its FUNNY and accompanied by that whistle then crunch noise followed by a small puff of dust, its Newton's law of cartoon gravity..... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #25 October 16, 2002 Under more examination: --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
