Paratrooper survives 1600ft. fall...with video

Holy shit. Only with a broken hip
 
Holy crap! Impressive the hip was the only injury.

Of course if I remember correctly. Above 50'-100' or some such distance not too awfully high in reality, you can't actually fall any faster. Terminal velocity has been reached.

I've read of a few skydivers who didn't even have a partial chute somehow surviving from way up.

Only experience I can pull from is falling off an 8' ladder hurts way more than parting ways with your mx bike 20' in the air at speed and tumbling to a stop down the landing. It's the sudden stop that'll hurt a man
 
It is pretty crazy the differences in injuries from airborne ops. I have seen the aftermath of a person whose chute did not fully open and they more or less went splat and then videos like this where people get away relatively unscathed.
 
Spartan said:
So, according to the video he had a streamer, which would have slowed him down at least a little from terminal of around 120mph

Anyone with experience know approximately how fast he would have been going?
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Lessee... equation is speed = distance/time elapsed. Terminal velocity is the square of two times (mass)(acceleration due to gravity) divided by density times (projected area)(drag coefficient). Mmmmm....multiply that....carry the one...move decimal over two places.

The answer is:

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