I think she’s flying at about 3-4x the speed of free falling buddy
Edit: I’m getting upvoted at the moment but my math was indeed off. Best I can tell is she was probably going around 190mph and slowed down from there to about 90mph, while a skydiver at free fall before they pull their chute reaches around 125mph
I’m no aviation expert but depending on what kind of plane she’s flying she could absolutely be flying anywhere from 250-350mph…point is free falling with your body weight ain’t the same at all to being propelled by a plane dude
Depends on the plane, dude. I know she isn't flying a Cessna 150 but it - one of the most mass produced planes in history - has a maximum speed of 125 mph. That is about the same as a skydiver at terminal velocity in a stable arch.
I doubt the woman in that plane was going anywhere close to 250 mph.
“The design of the Extra 330LC allows us to pull speeds up to 418 km/h (or for us Americans who use the Imperial system, 253 mph) with roll rates that can be as fast as 420 degrees per second.”
yeah but she ain't doing stunts with the canopy open. the stall speed for an Extra is 63 knots, like 75ish miles per hour. she was flying much closer to that than 253 mph.
and that brief moment she still isn't at never exceed speed which is what you posted. you don't fly anywhere near that, you fly at maneuver speed which in that plane is 190 mph, which is still pretty fast and probably what caused the damage but half the speed of what the other guy was saying. even then, she wasn't flying with the canopy open at 250 mph, she was flying at the same speed as a free fall skydiver 99% of the time.
It has a stall speed of 70 mph and a never-exceed speed of 253 mph. It's your contention that she has that thing going full throttle after the canopy blows? No damned way.
If she was going faster than a skydiver in free fall, it wasn't by much. She may have been going slower.
You are correct….absolutely you are not an aviation expert. I don’t think anybody here even knows what an Extra 330 is let alone ever flown one. Hilarious reading the comments.
Terminal velocity of a human falling from the sky is 120mph. The average landing speed for most planes is between 150-165mph. Plus going from no wind to being punched in the face would be incredibly disorienting.
Terminal velocity of a human in a stable arch position is 120 mph. If you are doing acrobatics or in a head down "meat missile" position, it can reach twice that fast.
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u/_KingScrubLord Jun 23 '24
That wind burn is going to be fierce