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How Speed Flying works – perhaps better than a wingsuit?
by Marshall Brain | November 16, 2010
You have probably seen wingsuits: – Want to try a wingsuit? – Interesting – The powered wingsuit Wingsuits look like a lot of fun. Is there something better? This might be it – it is called speed flying: You don’t have to use skis – you can speed fly on foot as well: So what [...]
Is it possible to get vertigo from a video? This would be the one, as a worker free-climbs to the top of a 1,768 foot tall transmission tower to make a repair. In the process you get to learn a lot about how a transmission tower works…
You asked: How do parachutes work? — Jack, Milton, W. Va. Marshall answered: Old-style round parachutes use the idea of drag to slow down the parachutist. Without a parachute, a skydiver will fall through the air at about 125 mph. The round parachute increases the surface area, and therefore the drag, by a factor of [...]
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