Yep! I've found the:
Free Fall Research Page
It has great stories and tips on how to survive a chuteless fall. Good entertainment.
Posted on 02/04/2002 7:00:41 PM PST by Willie Green
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:34:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
During WW-II a British turret gunner fell about 20,000 feet from a damaged aircraft, passed out (lack of oxygen), fell through a pine tree and landed in deep snow, with a broken leg. When the Germans found him unconscious they thought he was some kind of commando and beat the bejesus out of him trying to get a confession. After a while they realized he as telling the truth and the lucky sumbitch became something of celebrity in the eyes of his captors.
He kept having dreams about falling, falling, falling.
One day, his plane was shot down --bisected cleanly in the midsection by flak. He fell 13,000 feet to the ground in the tail section, unable to get out.
He landed in just that manner in a tree that, lo and behold, he ended upsharply deccelerated by the branches, which sharply broke away, one after the other in rapid succession.
He was unhurt.
Yep! I've found the:
It has great stories and tips on how to survive a chuteless fall. Good entertainment.
>Hmmm, it could work. He's soft and squishy.
>Just the type of thing I'd like to land on
>while flying through the air at terminal velocity.
On the other hand, the collision would be elastic, so you'd end up almost as far in the air as you started. Which would be OK if you could keep landing on the Nadler on each subsequent descent.
Well, Frank Zappa sings about a lady "who was totally Chenille and her old man was a Marine."
If I had a daughter I'd name her Acetylene. I like the sound of that.
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