If You Jumped Out of an Airplane, Lets Say 10,000 Feet Going to 30 on Southwest 472 to Albuquerque?
And you didn’t have a parachute. But you were wearing a wind breaker, Abercrombie shirt, shorts, no socks, tennis shoes and a timex watch. Could you use what you had on to slow your self enough not to get killed? Take for granted you were landing in the sand in the desert.
I’m not sure if your question is either tongue-in-cheek or simply a joke. But any paratrooper that lands anywhere in the world will hit hard–unless the jumper has the foil parachute with complete negotiable toggle controls and knows how to use them.
To jump at 10,000 feet, most jumpers will have the rectangular, foil parachute and are capable of landing even on tip toes, or commonly called, a Shirley Temple landing.
Desert sands are tougher than you think and so is a body of water. If the wind isn’t right and runs counter to a good, soft landing, the jumper will face injury or death. The items you mention in your narrative would have no measure of protecting the person. Even a large, baggy jacket would be of no consequence. The rate of descent is too much for anyone to survive.
I recommend that the Lord’s Prayer be executed during the free fall.
Not without the socks
Remember to not shave that day too. The wind resistance on your face is going to make all the difference.
no
I don’t see where you’re headed with this….
Best you could hope is to slow your decent down to about 120mph. Hitting the sand at that speed will bring about a sudden stop to your life systems…………
There are documented cases of people parachuting from 10,000 feet, their chute not opening, and surviving. Very rare.
If you jumped out the front door of the plane, Pratt & Whitney will shoot your remains all over Texas…
…not to mention the terrible nosedive the plane will suffer when it decompresses as you open the door of the plane…
There are some theories that say one can "roll" a particular way and survive a fall from that height. The government is actually funding some research in that area and apparently a few people have done it successfully but I am pretty sure the methods are top secret as of yet. Anyway, you would want to spread out as much as possible and hit any and all clouds that you possibly could (people have actually been stuck in clouds before and been lowered to safer heights)….. and look for a very large sand dune and try to roll down the steepest slope….. Also before you hit, you might want to wrap everything you possibly could around your head so that even if you were paralyzed you might stand a chance at surviving……very slim chance…
in all likely hood you would hit the ground….bounce and then pop like a balloon.
You would land on the Sandia Crest Snow ski area and slide down on the ski run to the lodge for a nice hot cup of cappuccino..then go back up to the TRAM restaurant patio to watch the most spectacular sunset on earth …..
Before being transported by ambulance to Anna Kaseman.ER…
Unlikely.
However, the human body is very weird and has survived strange things. You will probably live after impact. A few seconds, at least.
If you could slow down (I assume using the windbreaker like a sail) you could probably live. Others have lived through less.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17113222/
no. you would die
just remember that there are lots of sharp rocks out here in the desert. New Mexico is about the same as Arizona. Unless you are over Yuma, AZ there is NO sand.
Its a common misconception that the desert is sandy.
In fact its not.
I learned this after I moved tot he desert.
and btw one last thing. Dont land in a cactus.