How high would wind speeds have to be to blow a 160-pound human being away?

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@kickycan,

kickycan wrote:

How high would wind speeds have to be to blow a 160-pound human being away?

It depends on how bit the kite you're holding onto is. Smile

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@kickycan,

Let see a skydiver reach steady state speed at around 120 MPH so his weight is balance at a wind speed of 120 MPH.

Now there is a square relationship between force and wind speed.

So very roughly a 60 mph wind speed would produce a force of 1/4 your body weight on you.

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@BillRM,

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Let see a skydiver reach steady state speed at around 120 MPH so his weight is balance at a wind speed of 120 MPH.

Now there is a square relationship between force and wind speed.

So very roughly a 60 mph wind speed would produce a force of 1/4 your body weight on you.

I love trying to figure out the mind set of someone who would vote down a post like the one above.

If someone had a disagreement with my logic/reasoning I would think off hand that the normal thing would be to post in what way I happen to had gone wrong.

This is not an emotional thread after all.

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@BillRM,

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I love trying to figure out the mind set of someone who would vote down a post like the one above.

We agree on some things, Bill.

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So if Kicky got blown away, we may never know..... Sad

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@BillRM,

BillRM wrote:

Quote:
Let see a skydiver reach steady state speed at around 120 MPH so his weight is balance at a wind speed of 120 MPH.

Now there is a square relationship between force and wind speed.

So very roughly a 60 mph wind speed would produce a force of 1/4 your body weight on you.

I love trying to figure out the mind set of someone who would vote down a post like the one above.

If someone had a disagreement with my logic/reasoning I would think off hand that the normal thing would be to post in what way I happen to had gone wrong.

This is not an emotional thread after all.

I hear that there is a large deep sea-diver contingent here at a2k. That deep sea-divers are mortal enemies to skydivers around the world. With this hypothetical, you pushed someones wrong buttons.

You might have made a powerful enemy here at a2k.

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@tsarstepan,

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That deep sea-divers are mortal enemies to skydivers around the world. With this hypothetical, you pushed someones wrong buttons.

Lord so I have even more people disliking me because as a young man I was dumb enough to jump out of perfectly good aircrafts?

Oh talk about being a geek even when it came to skydiving I remember writing a program on the TI-59 programmable calculator to graph out the delta V and the forces involved in jumping before doing so.

Footnote the G shock of a chute opening can be express in mathematic terms but not the happiness when it occur and you then look up and see a good chute over your head.

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