This is the sort of thing one learns writing pulp fiction…

If you fall from ten thousand feet – say, if somebody threw you out of an airship during a fistfight – you reach the ground in about a minute.

You reach terminal velocity in about fifteen seconds, and at that point you’ve fallen about 1500 feet.
From the moment you reach terminal velocity, it’s 6 seconds per 1000 feet – or 51 seconds for the remaining 8500 feet of your jump.

So – total time for free-falling from 10.000 feet, 66 seconds, or, little more than a minute. Continue reading →