Posted on 04/10/2021 1:31:47 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Not that I would consider doing such a thing cavalierly. I would have to give this some serious thought first. Or I would need a stewardess to have an extra heavy hand with the complimentary on-flight beverages. (I'm sitting in First Class after all).
How could I survive a free-fall from 33,000 feet (6.25 miles!)? Perhaps I could land in the world's biggest haystack. Or the world's largest mattress? Maybe the world's biggest trampoline in which I would bounce 2,000 feet in the air while doing a few dozen cartwheels? Now that would make for some good hits out on the YouTube.
Anyway, 33,000 feet up in the air is pretty high up. I would get dizzy looking down from a perfectly safe aircraft and contemplating just jumping off of it and hoping for the best.
Speaking of stewardess, we have a very pretty stewardess who was named Vesna Vulović who did just that back in 1972.
Apparently a bomb went off in the airplane she was working on while it was over the very difficult to spell Czechoslovakia (thank you cut and paste) while it was 33,000 feet up in the air and she was the Sole Survivor" as the doomed airplane tumbled out of the sky from 33,000 feet up.
I am going to eventually post a thread titled "What happens when your airplane loses its wings at 33,000 feet up in the sky" but I'm getting ahead of myself. I don't want to post any spoilers here (but teasers are ok).
Anyway, this bundle of loveliness named Vesna Vulović got all the way down to the ground and somehow survived from this great height sans parachute.
Was she sneaking mini-bottles of Wild Turkey while in-flight serving the passengers? We do not know the answer to that question. But she did survive and she should have been much more famous than she was.
All I know is I'm happy she survived and lived to tell the tale.
Surviving by landing in lutefisk or missing the lutefisk and not surviving. That’s a difficult choice.
Make sure you wear your mask on the way down in case you don’t survive, or they’ll claim you died of Covid.
About the same chase as if you jumped out at 33,001 feet.
It worked in Angels and Demons... But you have to have a windbreaker on or else you’re dead.
Decisions, decisions.
You can reach terminal velocity after about 500 meters, so I don’t think the other miles make much difference.
NJ? You have a problem with that?
“chance”
Just roll with it when you hit.
Also happened in WW2 to a number of bomber crewmen.
That’s an Austin Lounge Lizards song!
Last Words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED6eLMlr6bM
Lyrics
https://www.elyrics.net/read/a/austin-lounge-lizards-lyrics/last-words-lyrics.html
The curtain of darkness is fallin’
And my friends are all here at my side.
Are those the sweet voices of angels
As I rise on that heavenly tide?
All hearts overflowin’ with sadness
And those words left so often unsaid
Then I could hear a voice whispering softly,
“Could I have all your stuff when your dead?”
“Could I have your TV and your pickup?
And I’ve always admired your shoes.
Could I have that old dining room table?
And there’s a couple of chairs I could use.”
“Well, you know that you’re headed to glory,
And like a star, up to heaven you’ll shoot
When they write the last page of your story,
Could I try on that seersucker suit?”
It was the voice of my dear brother Thomas.
He was kneelin’ down close by my side.
His breath had just come from a funeral
For a mouth full of teeth that had died.
Well, I prayed my last prayer for salvation.
I was feelin’ the touch of God’s hand.
But I could still hear the voice of my brother
As they struck up that old angel band.
“Could I have your old ski boots and surf board?
And maybe that four-poster bed?
Would you mind if I took a few records?
Just Nirvana, The Stones, and the Dead.”
Well, you know that you can’t take it with you
To your heavenly home up on high.
When you pass through those gates, and they had you your wings,
Could I have all your stuff when you die?
But the angels consulted St. Peter
And flew me back to my hospital bed.
My life was a new day a-dawning,
And the angels took Tommy instead.
The following song is on topic as well.
The Other Shore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnZ1STg8UIA
On the other shore, on the other shore
We will reunite with all the things we ever owned before
Our single socks will all be to their rightful pairs restored
We’ll meet all our possessions on the other shore
You’d have to survive to post about it in FR, especially if you’re in the habit of using/screwing up <html tags.
OTOH, if you tweeted it out as you fell, you’d get banned by @Jack before you hit the ground!
I do trend that way, don't I?
ROFLMAO.
Well, except for the ending. Maybe I should retract that question. LOL
That’s Hillarious!
I’m not familiar with the Lounge Lizards. I’m going to have to check them out.
Hillbillies In A Haunted House - Austin Lounge Lizards
ROFLMAO!!!
Check out Highway Cafe of the Damned.
Hi.
“Highway Cafe of the Damned.”
Good movie.
5.56mm
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