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.
Can I have your stuff when you’re gone?
you could post before you land if you type fast while falling
did she continue in that line of work ?
I worked with this Russian Girl who jumped out of airplanes every weekend. She told me that she had successfully completed over 2000 jumps.
Sometimes I wonder if she is still alive
The airline put her on a desk job after her fall.
I’d still ask you to donate.
Maybe an organ or two.
Just before you hit the ground, jump up.
Are you thinking of flying United anytime soon?
Gunner would tell you to get a job.
She went on to play the immigrant neighbor on Two Broke Girls?
My lungs are in good shape. I don’t vouch for the rest.
Some Freepers have too much time on their hands including me.
0 chance if you get thrown out.
youd be unconscious long before you hit the ground...
STEP AWAY FROM THE BONG
From 33,000. Cross your legs so you freeze in that position. That way when you hit the ground you screw in and save the cost of burial.
I would say you have a better chance of surviving then getting through 8 years of a Kamala Presidency
You are probably correct.
she was wedged in the fuselage after an explosion. Trees and snow broke the fall somewhat. She did die a few years ago at age 66.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbpJeg8A9S8
25,000 feet fall, no parachute: https://youtu.be/GaANi96Z-Wg
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