Check out this awesome video of a Battlefield 3 tour de force made (to seem) real. Battlefield 3 fans may remember the original in-game stunt, in which a fighter pilot leaps from his cockpit and then shoots down an enemy jet with a rocket launcher before landing safely back in his jet.
(Rumour has it the original move was so badass that the A-Team theme just sort of kicked in spontaneously.)
If you like what you see, you can watch another “Battlefield made real” video of infantry combat created by the same crew.
Chuloopa
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 11:01 AMPhysics: People fall faster than fighter jets
N3RD1001101
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 11:12 AM… which is true considering planes are designed to be excellent gliders…. :)
Rod
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 11:24 AMUnless there’s butter on the underside of the jet.
Johnny Sweetbread
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 11:45 AMNot entirely true. Larger masses will fall faster than lighter masses.
Areodynamic drag is also an issue. I would hypothesise that a jet facing upwards or downwards would have less drag than a sky diver with legs/arms out.
Chuloopa
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 11:54 AMi was being tongue-in-cheek :) lol
Julzz
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 8:14 PMOk guys Phyisics 101. Weight does not change falling speed. The only factors that effect falling speed is surface area and air resistance. If you were to drop a 1kg weigh and a 100kg weight in a vacuum they would both hit the ground at the same time. So all though I do not have any evidence, chances are a skydiver falling head first would in fact fall faster then a jet which is designed to glide.
Water Bear
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 1:29 PMer, no they don’t.
Russell
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 2:13 PMActually, they fall at the same speed. The speed of gravity. :P
Just look it up. Search is your friend. Objects of different sizes, masses and shapes will still fall at the same rate.
Unless the plane starts gliding. That’ll change things up.
frank
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 6:56 PMnot quite, but mmmkay…
link
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 11:16 PMits true they accelerate at gravity 9.8blahblablah meters per second however the shape etc will effect this due to air. in perfect vacuum it doesnt matter since all objects fall at the same rate. we should also consider the ejection seat. if it is aimed slightly towards the nose as the jet stalls/stops and he jumps out he will proceed to be pushed higher. also if the jets air breaks/ reverse thrust were on as he jumped out this would cause the plane to continue to slow down faster while inertia will allow him to only slow down at gravity rate. fairly simple physics.
Charles
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 11:55 AMPhysics: People can teleport through glass.
effektd
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 12:25 PMWell, can’t say I’m impressed, the only “real” thing was the ground, him parachuting down and that’s about it.
Nice effort, but yeah, massive fail on the impressive side.
link
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 11:29 PMreally? I thought it was a pretty good tribute to the rendezook footage.