deepfishy

Writing inspires a certain information pack-rattery in the hunt for useful resources. I have no idea what I'll be doing with this (if anything), but the Free Fall Research Page is a fascinating documentation of people who have been lucky enough to survive falls from a great height, including free fallers in WWII aviation, "wreckage riders", and unlucky skydivers. I blame Biggles for my own fascination with the topic :). Also, there's something endearingly steampunk about "Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium: Alfred Muhler fell from the wreckage of a German zeppelin into a monastery (June 7, 1915)".

(via Popular Mechanics: How to Fall 35,000 Feet - And Survive)