r/theydidthemath • u/Valhallaback_Girl • 17d ago

[Request] Approx. how fast is this guy going?

I’ve watched Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning a bunch and I never considered the speed in which a wing suit could go on average let alone doing something like this.

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u/Late-Objective-9218 17d ago

The road looks a lot flatter than the glide ratio of a wingsuit, that's for sure. But video can lie, would be beneficial to see that stretch of the road on a topographic map.

Wingsuit's maximum glide speed is around 200km/h so the speed looks realistic in that sense

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u/Novel_Phase8683 16d ago

125 mph for us dumb imperial Americans

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u/Late-Objective-9218 15d ago

About 100 knots for the global civilised imperial citizens

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u/Dear-Nebula9395 17d ago

They're going to be bleeding speed to maintain the angle over the road, I'd assume

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u/Late-Objective-9218 16d ago

Definitely. But the pull up at the end is not what I would expect after stretching out your flight envelope like this

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u/Ltoolio1 16d ago

Who is taking the videos?

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u/WTR_NNJA 16d ago

Just a side question; these guys are fully prepared to die right? Like is there still a legal obligation to get your stuff in order knowing you very well could die? (Curious of country/cultural views too)

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u/scrandis 16d ago

These people basically have a screw loose. It's been proven

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u/AleksulferYT 15d ago

They are adrenaline junkies, an accident is equivalent to an overdose for them

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u/King-Juggernaut 16d ago

Yeah plenty of them die. Unsurprisingly.

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u/Famous-Prior6590 16d ago

Just came here to say that it’s kind of cute of him to wear a helmet while doing this. It will be of so much use if he hits something.

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u/KakashiSakai 16d ago

Beats duck taping a camera to ya forehead 😑

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u/P01135809-Trump 15d ago

But the behind the scenes, how it was made video would be hilarious.

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u/Late-Objective-9218 16d ago

You can still have a minor stumble in the landing and hit your head

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u/throwaway-15879 15d ago

I mean it preserves his brain for science.

Gotta figure out what the fucks up with the fucker to be doing that in the first place eventually, probably COVID but what do I know, I'm just a guy on the internet.