WEBVTT - How Skydiving Works 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:11.360 Welcome to Stuff you Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio. Hey, 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:13.880 and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:16.840 and Jerry's here too, and that makes this Stuff you 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:22.240 should Know, Good Old Fashion Explainer Edition. Yeah, it feels 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:25.880 like a throwback. Yes it does. I can't cannot believe 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.960 we did not do this already. I agree. And my 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:34.400 stomach may have just been so loud that the microphone 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:36.760 picked it up. I didn't hear it, but I want 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:41.640 to hear it in the edit if it did. Oh geez, wow, 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.680 my mouth. I know, no, I already eight. You know, 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:47.800 sometimes when you have a really empty stomach and you 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.839 put I made one of my my good hot bone broths, 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.720 icy bone broths, and then for the next thirty minutes, 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:59.120 your stomachs just like screaming like what is that? Or 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.360 it's thank you? Yeah, maybe thank you. I wish I 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:05.760 knew my whole life. I wish I knew what my 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.280 stomach was saying to me. What is your sphincter saying? 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.640 You can usually tell us what you can usually tell 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.679 how your stomach is feeling based on your sphincter. Sphincter, 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:20.560 don't lie, Oh man is that a truism or what, Yes, 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:25.759 it is, sphincter's gonna spink yep it spinker's fine. That's 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.880 then I think your stomach saying thank you. Okay, so 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:31.880 we are moving on, Chuck, We're gonna move on. We're 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.440 talking about skydiving today, and like I said, I'm surprised 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.360 we hadn't done it already. Um. I met a guy 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.080 who has I think he founded like one of the 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:45.400 Navy's um skydiving clubs. And here's a very nice man 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:48.080 and asked if we'd ever done skydiving before, and I 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.360 said I don't know, and I looked and sure enough 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.640 we didn't. So here we are doing skydiving, and I 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:58.520 think it's pretty appropriate. Well, first, have you ever skydived? 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:03.120 I can't remember. No, I have not. And it's the 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.720 kind of thing that like, I'm totally game to do. 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:10.200 But I don't see myself making that initiative. But if 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.320 someone got something together, I'd be like, yeah, trurell, I'll 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:13.960 jump out of a plane. I think that's how it 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.560 typically happens. It's like a group and there's one like 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:20.040 initiator and everybody's like or whatever. Yeah, but you you 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:23.000 have not of course, no, I have I have Oh wait, 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.080 I feel like we talked about this. What have you done? 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.520 I went up to thirteen thousand feet and jumped out 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:31.760 of a plane tandem. It was it was so so 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:36.960 scary the way up. Everybody's laughing and joking and I 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.399 was just quiet, and somebody looked over him. He's like, Josh, 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.799 your knuckles are pretty white. And I was like, that's 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.880 super funny, right, And I was like, I don't think 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.639 I even responded to that. I was too nervous. And 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.160 we got up to thirteen thousand feet and I had 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.840 this giant dude strapped to my back. Yeah, that's what 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:58.520 you want. And We're kneeling together at the opening of 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.480 this plane and I'm like, I'm I'm not doing this 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:04.959 and he's like, yes, you are. And we were out 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.239 of the plane and I don't remember the first couple 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.240 of seconds. I think I've talked about this before. The 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.360 first couple of seconds or just my mind didn't form 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.200 any memories. And then I kind of came to when 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.639 we're plumbering toward the Earth and I was like, this 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:19.360 is pretty great. Actually, that's amazing how it was just 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:23.239 like twenty years ago or ten years ago, gosh, more 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.040 than twenty years ago now they think, Yeah, I was 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.440 in my early twenties, which is kind of the time 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.800 you try it usually because you have very little to 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:35.080 live for at that point. You know. Sometimes the you know, seniors, 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:39.040 the aged Yeah, they like to like take a challenge 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:40.840 box off, you know, and say like I'm gonna get 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.560 skydiving at seventy or whatever. Yeah, I just saw I 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.880 think like a mom and her son sons seventies and 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:50.080 the mom's nineties they went sky diving. Not what I 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.839 expected you to say. Yeah they went skydiving. Wow, look 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.960 good for them. So we are talking skydiving, Chuck. I 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.880 strongly recommend trying it at least once. One reason why 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:05.480 is because it's gotten really really safe. Like I wouldn't 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.080 just say, like go go base jump, Like I would 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:09.920 never tell somebody to go base jump. That is not 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:14.000 at all safe. But people have been skydiving and investing 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:15.840 in like figuring out how to make it safe for 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.840 so many years that it has gotten pretty safe. Yeah. 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.000 I think that's a great idea. I mean, Ed has 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:23.359 it at the end. He helped us out with this. 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.080 But we may as well not bury the lead and 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.279 say that in twenty twenty one, I guess was the 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:33.120 most recent year he could find something was ten fatalities 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.160 per one hundred thousand jumps, which is point to eight 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:41.680 deaths Now, I'm sorry, point two point two eight per 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.960 one hundred thousand, not ten per one hundred thousand, right right, 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.080 and already screwed it up. So less than a quarter 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.599 of a person dies or just over a quarter of 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.200 a person dies up for every hundred thousand jumps, which 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:56.960 is not bad. So yeah, and it's actually the old days, 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:01.000 it's really good. Yeah, the old days being two thous eleven. 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:05.240 It was at point eight one, which seems high compared 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.880 to point two eight, but it's actually pretty low. Like 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:09.920 if you go back to the sixties, you're at like 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.240 eleven and we're like under one here. Now we're at 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.640 just over a quarter. So it's definitely gotten a lot, 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:20.160 a lot safer. Yeah, And we'll talk about the multiple 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.560 redundancies and backup shoots and all that stuff, and I'm 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:27.080 sure we'll probably for the avid jumper, we'll probably get 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.479 some of this slightly wrong, because we always do. But 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:34.279 should we go back to the old days, Yes, let's 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:36.480 because people have been like, I want to jump off 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.640 a high thing, but I want to live, so how 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.839 can I do that? And the parachute is kind of 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:45.440 a I think, even even if you're taking into account 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:50.200 like hindsight, it's a pretty obvious low hanging fruit invention. 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.440 But that doesn't mean that they knocked it out of 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:57.200 the park immediately. There was they didn't understand exactly how 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.360 to do it, but the idea of what to do 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.320 came to a lot of people over the years. Yeah, 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:06.640 I mean, I think just even a kid jumping off 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.680 of a wall with an umbrella, like, there's this weird 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.279 human instinct of let me hold open a shoot like 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.520 thing and jump off of something, and that seems to 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.320 have certainly taken hold in France. France had a lot 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.920 of early jumpers, And then we talked for sure in 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:29.919 our Eiffel Tower episode about Franz Reichilt, who died in 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:34.760 nineteen twelve while testing a parachute design from the Eiffel Tower. 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:39.320 But before that, the first documented jump period was way 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:43.640 before that, in seventeen eighty three from an observatory in France, 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.440 And it seems like the French were just always experimenting 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.800 with you know, sort of the rigid like wooden framed 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.960 shoots and then silk shoots, and we'll talk about silk later. 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.679 It was a pretty good early choice for the fabric, 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.719 but it wasn't until the early nineteen hundreds that we 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.520 look at sort of the first modern parachute right right, 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.280 And this kind of gives you an idea of what 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.840 skydiving is like. The origin of skydiving came from a 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:15.440 carnival act, yeah, where a guy named Charles Broadwick whose 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.320 stage name was John Murray used to go up in 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.320 a hot air balloon and jump out of it the 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:24.680 way around was it? No, neither one of them are 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:26.960 really that stage namy. Now that I look at it, 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.920 I know exactly. It's just kind of two normal names. 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.640 But I guess he did. He thought John Murray didn't 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.240 have enough mustard to it or something. Yeah, So he 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:36.840 would go up in a hot air balloon and jump 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.440 out with a parachute of his own design, which apparently 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.200 was good enough to keep him alive. And he was 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.440 touring the US in the eighteen nineties early nineteen hundreds, 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:51.800 and he had two different wives who were assistance with 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:56.480 his act, but die in these parachuting accidents. Yeah, and 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:58.760 I don't know if that drove him to it or 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.600 if it was just I could see it driving driving 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.760 him to it. He really spent a lot of time 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:07.360 refining the parachute and the whole idea of a parachute 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.520 coming out of a backpack on your back. That came 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:15.680 from Charles Broadwick slash John Murray. Yeah. Yeah, he was like, 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:17.640 let's stop this thing in there. I'm not sure what 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:19.280 they were doing before. Were they just kind of holding it? 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.440 I think so, yeah, kind of like base jumping. I 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.560 think yeah, yeah, so they were a guess holding it. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.640 Then he put it into a backpack again. I wish 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.800 I had a little more information about his wives dying, 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:32.800 if it was like, hey, you try this, or if 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.800 it was just genuine accidents. I think the first one 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:40.120 later on people said that it was more likely suicide. Yeah, 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.000 I think the first one in nineteen oh five. Okay, 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:47.160 but anytime there's two spouses that die that, I don't know, 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.679 that little suspicion is raised. It is definitely. But or 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.720 also talking about people engaging in the earliest forms of 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:57.560 sky diving, you know, so there's a lot of risk 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.240 to it, for sure, But the Milly obviously is where 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.760 a lot of the early parachuting went on. Obviously, in 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:09.760 World War One, I believe they developed the rip chord 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.280 by that point, right, yeah, where you pull like a 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.920 little handle and the parachute goes whoop out of the backpack. 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.880 They also came up with what's called the static line. 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.040 Like if you ever see in like a warm movie, 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.040 especially World War Two, those guys like clipping into a 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.800 line with like a rope, that's a static line, and 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.839 when that's just dropping guys right exactly, there's no this 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.520 isn't for thrills. This is for getting you behind enemy lines, right, 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:40.280 So they deploy their parachute immediately, and the static line 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.040 does that when you jump out, that line stays attached 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.240 to the plane for a second, and it's also attached 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.120 to your shoot so it just pulls your shoot out 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.800 immediately and then falls away and then you kind of 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:53.520 float to safety, hopefully behind enemy lines. So the static 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:57.160 line and the rip chord were both designed by the military, 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:02.320 and I guess people, I'm guessing from the military. That's 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.880 where people started getting like the idea of like we 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:08.080 should just do this on weekends too. Yeah, I have 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.959 a feeling that's what happened. I wouldn't be surprised if 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:15.040 retired military were some of the first instructors privately yea, 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:17.280 because they certainly jumped a lot, and that's the only 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.120 way you could get the kind of experience back then. 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:23.480 But I believe sites jumped down as the very first 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.520 skydiving center opened in nineteen fifty nine in the United States, 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.319 that it's still up and running today, which is pretty cool. Yeah. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:33.960 An Orange, mass Oh, an Orange. I don't know why 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.000 Massachusetts has a town named Orange. Maybe it's just like 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:43.040 wishful thinking for orange shoes. Not Florida. I looked it up. Yeah, 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.120 because Florida is actually like kind of a huge state 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.640 for skydiving over the history of the sport too. But no, 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:56.360 Moorida's jump site is called Fall Foliage, Florida, right exactly, 0:10:56.679 --> 0:11:01.680 Red Maple Leaf, Florida. But the sixties is when it 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.840 started to develop and then big time, And I'm glad 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.840 you love it. Don't just get then in the seventies, 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.400 you know, I remember, and I'm sure you do. Growing 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.240 up in the seventies and eighties, skydiving just seemed like 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.720 not like everybody was doing it, but it just seemed 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.200 like a big, hot, thrill sport, and that's where it 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:23.440 really kind of became refined, and people started pushing the 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:27.520 envelope and going higher and faster and doing crazier things 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.239 up there. And that's when like kind of modern skydiving 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:32.920 really came into its own. And there were two things 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.960 that happened that completely broke open skydiving from like an 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:44.719 arcane adrenaline junkie ex military recreation to like anybody can 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.640 come do this. One was they changed the design of 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:51.240 the parachute from that round, you know example of a parachute, 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.080 the old timey one where you couldn't control it, like 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.280 it was keeping you from plummeting to the ground and 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:59.040 you should be grateful for that. That was enough. But 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.400 then a person from Canada in the sixties came up 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:08.400 with the like the ram air parachute. Their name was 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:14.160 Domina Galbert and they were a kite designer and they said, hey, 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.439 these kites, actually you could turn them into a pretty 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:21.240 cool parachute. And so those kind of wing like wide, rectangular, 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:25.720 rounded parachutes that you see today that those are ram Air. 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:27.760 We'll talk a little more about them. So that was 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.319 a big one, because now you could control where you landed. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.520 And then the second thing was some dudes in the seventies, 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:40.040 actually a couple initially Peter Chase and Gloria Maybury, who 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:44.120 were married, decided to try what's called tandem jumping, which 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.319 is what I did, where a more experienced person is 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:50.320 strapped to a novice and you jump out together, and 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.599 the experienced person is the one who like pulls the 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.440 rip cord and guides the whole thing. You're just basically 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.679 along for the ride. And now, all of a sudden chuck, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.720 it went from having to have tons of experience, possibly 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:06.400 a military background too, I'm going to show up, do 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.760 an hour long course and jump out of a plane 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:13.600 an hour later after I get there. And that's suddenly 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.800 people who are just complete amateurs who are curious could 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.200 show up in skydive. And that's really where the whole 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:23.079 thing blew open. In the seventies. Yeah, and that's I mean, 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:26.280 I have a feeling of skydiving. We're still at the 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.200 point where even if you needed one day of training 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.560 to come back the next day, the rate of people 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.080 trying this out would just plummet plummet. Probably not the 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:40.440 best words to use. But the fact that they made 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.920 it to where you can go you don't have to 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.280 know anything, and you can go out that same afternoon 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.760 and jump out of a plane. That's what really kind 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.160 of entice people, I think, to try it out. And then, 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:51.840 of course, like you said, just the fact that you're 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.480 you know, they show you how to use the gear, 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.920 and they walk you through that quicklike lesson, which I 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.880 imagine is just like let me handle anything. I'll walk 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.040 you through it all. When we come to the ground. 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.000 That's really the only other time where you need to 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:08.720 worry about stuff, which is you know what, like pull 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:10.640 up your feet so you don't break your legs, yes, 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.800 and I'll land for you and you'll kind of sit 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.679 on your butt, yeah, like you're strapped to the front 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:20.720 of the instructor like a baby, but not facing them. 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.000 They'd just be weird. You're both facing the same direction. 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:28.240 That's the romantic style. But you know they're they'll they'll 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.680 also going to be explaining kind of. It's not like 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:33.760 they just say here's what you do and just shut up, 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.240 like they're gonna say, listen, we're gonna be flying. It's 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.640 you know, ten to fifteen thousand feet and we'll be 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:43.120 going one hundred ish miles an hour when you jump out. 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.040 So all this stuff is just to sort of give 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:49.080 you the lay of the land, and it's I don't 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.560 think it necessarily helps you with your jump, but it 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.560 just you know, you know what's going on, you know 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.280 how high you are, you now fast you're going. Did 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.840 they even bring up terminal velocity? I don't know, but 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.720 this is what I proposed, I say, I don't remember 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.680 if they did or not, probably, but I say, we 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.760 take a break and pretend that it's the night before 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:11.560 your first jump, and then the sleep is the ad break, 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:13.600 and then when we come back, it's like waking up 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.560 and going to the airfield to participate in your first 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:43.960 guy dive. Ever, how about that? That's super exciting. Okay, 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:51.640 good morning, Chuck. It's time. It's time for your first 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:56.600 sky dive. So what are we gonna do. Well, we're 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.120 gonna do all the things we talked about in the 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.240 first segment, and then I'm going to jump out of 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.280 a plane, but your mind structure, so you're gonna be 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:06.920 strapped in my back right and this plane, by the way, 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:11.000 is going to be typically a prop plane. Yeah, you're not. 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:12.680 We're not jumping out of a gin or we know 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.800 it'd be such a bad idea. So you're jumping out 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:17.480 of a prop plane for a couple of reasons. One, 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.960 they're easy on the gas, and if you're flying people 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:24.120 up to skydive, you want to be economical with your gas. 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.000 And then they have a low stall speed, meaning they 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:31.440 can go to really slow speeds without their engine stalling out, 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.800 which is a problem. Although if you're ever going to 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.200 be on a plane that goes down, that's the plane 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.160 that you want to be on that's going down because 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:41.960 you're strapped to somebody with a giant parachute on their back. 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.600 But for the most part, when you're jumping out, you're 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.200 jumping out about one hundred miles an hour out of 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:52.120 probably a Beechcraft king Air with maybe fourteen other people, 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.880 and you're gonna be up there between ten thousand to 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.360 fourteen thousand feet. Like I said, I jumped out at 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:03.200 thirteen thousand and it seemed perfecto. And when you jump out, Chuck, 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:09.080 get ready to rumble. Yeah, you're you know, a terminal 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.080 velocity is what I mentioned before the break, and that 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.600 doesn't have anything to do with death. They picked a 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:17.639 very terrible word there to name it. But one hundred 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.760 and twenty miles an hour. And we'll talk more about 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.280 terminal velocity kind of throughout, but that is, you know, 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:27.640 regular human jumping out of a plane with their arms 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:31.480 and legs out, belly down, just sort of standard skydiving. 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.680 You can we've all seen James Bond movies and stuff 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:39.119 where they and well, terminal velocity I think was the 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.399 name of the movie with Charlie Sheen, right, I think 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:43.679 I saw that in the theater. Yeah, And it's the 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:45.840 coolest thing when you're a young kid and you see 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.400 someone tuck their arms in and put their head down 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:50.520 and all of a sudden they're flying through the air 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.000 faster than one hundred and twenty miles an hour. You 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.159 can learn how to do that stuff with training, but 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:57.760 typically one hundred and twenty is what you get up to. 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:01.959 Although when you out of a plane, you're going one 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:06.359 hundred miles an hour horizontally, so there's a period of 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:10.800 time where you're I guess following diagonally until you reach 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:14.200 the point where you're just following vertically. Right. They should 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:15.960 have a name for that. They do. It's called going 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.680 over the hill. No, I mean like a name like 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:23.479 terminal velocity, like, oh there something zone. I'm gonna call 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:26.680 it the diagonal okay, the diagonal zone, but more follows 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:28.480 an arc because when you jump out of the plane, 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.679 remember the plane's going one hundred miles an hour. You 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.200 were in the plane. Even though you just left the plane, 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.320 you're still going roughly one hundred miles an hour in 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:37.760 the same direction of the plane. But you slow down 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.000 so quickly that it's not like you're keeping up with 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.640 the plane even for a second. So you fall away, 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:45.560 but you're still kind of you've got like that horizontal 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.000 motion before you hit that arc and you start to 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:50.399 fall downward. And the whole reason there's such a thing 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:54.080 as terminal velocity is because of friction from the air. 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:58.879 And if you and a bowling ball jumped out of 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:00.919 the plane at the same time in a vacuum, you 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.040 would fall to the earth at the same rate. But 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:08.200 because of air friction, um you fall at different rates. 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:10.320 And like you said, it's about one hundred and twenty 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:12.560 miles an hour, and when you reach terminal velocity, you're 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.000 still going really really fast, about one hundred and twenty 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.280 miles an hour, but you're not speeding up any longer. 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:21.080 That's that's the difference. You're not accelerating any longer. And 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:23.200 that would be pretty cool. It would be pretty cool. 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:25.159 And you can actually do that when you become a 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:29.280 skilled skydiver. You can hit terminal velocity and then like 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:31.800 go from say belly to like you said, a forty 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:35.400 five degree angle and start free falling again. Like you can. 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:38.560 You can stop and start your freefall just by moving 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:42.000 your body and changing the amount of friction that you're 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:46.359 providing the air that you're plummeting through. Yeah, when you 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:48.520 get down there, and this is something I kind of 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:52.320 never knew the exact numbers on, but you know that 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:54.800 when that shoot opens, it looks like a pretty violent 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:58.879 reaction when it jerks you up. Um, it's gonna slow 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:02.160 you down very very quickly. Yes, to the point where 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.040 you're going to be feeling about two point seven five 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:08.400 g's of your body. I think ED said you're decelerating 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:12.920 by about thirty meters per second per secondly, Yeah, that's 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:15.760 what I said. No, I think it's per second per second, oh, 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:20.720 per second per second. Yeah. Prosecco, prosecco, what is per 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:22.800 second per second even mean, that's what I'm saying, Like, 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:24.399 I don't know what it means either, but when you 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:26.040 say it like that, it's like, wow, that must be 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:28.879 really fast. They had to say per second twice. They're like, 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:30.840 we couldn't even come up with a better term for that, 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:34.120 so we're just doubling up on it. Slap another per 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:37.920 second on it. So that is that is a really 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:41.240 quick slowdown, and eventually you'll get down to about I mean, 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:43.480 when you're landing, you're in the like the fifteen to 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:46.160 eighteen mile an hour zone. Not bad at all. I mean, 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:48.440 especially going from one hundred and twenty miles an hour 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:52.480 about two hundred miles an hour if you're tandem to seventeen. 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:56.040 That's pretty gentle comparatively speaking. And like you said, when 0:20:56.080 --> 0:21:00.639 that shoot opens, you stop, you stop accelerating downward or 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:04.359 even hitting terminal velocity, and now you're accelerating upward even 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:07.960 though your body's still falling downward. So that's negative acceleration, 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:10.080 and that's what you're doing as you kind of start 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:12.040 to slow down and hit that seventeen mile an hour 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:14.880 thing and then land and Chuck, I know that we've 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:19.520 completely abandoned the whole story. But congratulations on your first skydive. 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:22.640 You did really well. Oh boy, that was a lot 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:24.159 easier I thought I thought it was going to be. 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:27.080 And technically, now I think about it, you've done skydiving, 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:30.640 it's just been indoor skydiving and you did great. Yeah, 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:32.720 I mean we have to mention that. I think we 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:35.359 have no way around it. We did a parachute emergency 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:37.760 short stuff and I know for a fact we mentioned 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:40.639 it in that. Yeah, but if anyone's curious, Josh and 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:43.520 I did a Toyota commercial years ago, back when people 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:47.560 cared about us representing their brand and we used to 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:51.679 get those calls occasionally. Yeah, and we were put in. 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:54.000 They flew us out to LA and we shot a 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:56.239 mile neighborhood. It was super cool and one of the 0:21:56.240 --> 0:21:58.560 things we did was go to a wind tunnel one 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:02.080 of those indoor jump facilities and you know, sort of 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:05.080 explain something while we were doing that, and it's online 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:06.760