Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half seconds to appraise your situation, decide to use the emergency parachute, and decide which way to put it out (it's a little different for different malfunctions). It takes from a second to a second and a half to reach down against a 125 mile an hour wind to find the ripcord on your stomach and pull it and then punch the bag to make sure the chute is knocked out. It then takes two seconds for the emergency chute to become fully open. At this point you are travelling at the terminal velocity for a falling human...
...jumping away from the airplane will be the most terrifying act. It is not. Before you leave, you are crouched on a step almost entirely outside the fuselage of the plane. This experience gives you the feeling of existing as a flying being. You are faced forward into the wind that you are beginning to develop a true understanding for; you expect then, when you step off, to just mingle with it a little further...
...progress of your situation in terms of the instantaneously huge distance between you and the airplane. Because the airplane is turning and accelerating and because your downward speed is accelerating while your forward velocity is decelerating due to wind resistance, the airplane loses the meaning it once had as a geometrical point of reference...
...college; but because you can't see the alternative future possibilities of the course of your interests, your life-determining decisions will be based on petty emotions which are irrelevant to the events they determine. You go to Harvard to study physics, and then you later wind up as to study physics, and then you later wind up as a writer...
...They are the roughest, toughest, longest-going people on earth," he said. "You just wind them up and they...