Swoop Speeds....

[iam 0]

This may be like asking "how long is a piece of string", but what speeds do the top swoopers achieve when landing.

Cheers

Ian

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[Yoshi 0]

I am not sure about MAX speed, but 70 mph is definately acheivable
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[skygod7777 0]

well at WFFC in the speed round or competion, jeff mullins got 65 mph, and won.

i'm sure that the speeds are more on average of like 55 or 60.

later

[AggieDave 6]

I think Hooknswoop has been clocked at 98mph coming out of his hook turn and around 80mph in his swoop. He has the exact numbers, though.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[Hooknswoop 19]

93 mph in the dive, 78 mph as I planed out. Anyone have an Expert Cypres that is getting close to the 12 year, 3 month mark?

Hook

[craddock 0]

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well at WFFC in the speed round or competition, jeff mullins got 65 mph, and won.

i'm sure that the speeds are more on average of like 55 or 60.

later

That comp was held into the wind the day Jeff won with that speed. The day before Jeff hit 75 I think. Mike Jazz was right there with him. I think I just edged out Andy Anderson that evening for third. I did three swoops with the gun that day and hit 65,67,66. Pretty consistent although I was setting up way back from the gun and swooping the entire pond. Most jumpers were trying to set up close to the radar to just make the gates for a max. reading. This could allow a higher recorded speed as the gates were pretty high and you could enter them with vertical speed. If you were swooping the pond he recorded your max speed as soon you were leveled off. I think Jeff was wearing at least 35 pounds of weight at one point. He looked pregnant!
Hope this helps
Josh

That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

[RichM 0]

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93 mph in the dive, 78 mph as I planed out. Anyone have an Expert Cypres that is getting close to the 12 year, 3 month mark?

Hook

Going for the first hook caused cypres fire? I smell beer

Rich M

[jumpkid 0]

I clocked my friend AJ at 101 Kph. I think that is about 65 Mph or so. He was on a 84 Velocity, loaded around 2.0, I think. That was the top speed, I had lots of high 90's but we dont have a pond at our DZ. So we tend to hold back a little.

[AggieDave 6]

100Kph = roughly 62mph.

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[Steel 0]

Now this is a competition I would like but unfortunately I have never been around a radar gun to offer numbers. I have considered buying one but haven't quite convinced myself to spend the money on it. I can only say it would be awesome if somebody could show up at Skydive Dallas with one. For a long time I have wondered at what speed I do come in at.

Psycho Bruno out

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[AggieDave 6]

Dude, I know of *atleast* 2 cops that jump there regularly, just ask them to bring one or bring their squad car with them, etc.

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[skycat 0]

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Now this is a competition I would like but unfortunately I have never been around a radar gun to offer numbers. I have considered buying one but haven't quite convinced myself to spend the money on it. I can only say it would be awesome if somebody could show up at Skydive Dallas with one. For a long time I have wondered at what speed I do come in at.

Psycho Bruno out

You are loading your canopy the same as hooknswoop so I'm sure it's in the same ballpark as his numbers. Then again I'm sure he is much faster now since he has ~600 jumps on the canopy and that zapping was done when he had something like 10. Also the fact we now live in CO I'm sure makes a huge difference.

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[maretus 0]

In first ever finnish swoop competition, Kujo was clocked at 97 Km/h and few others at 90 km/h range. Kujo is jumping smallish VX, don't know the exact size / wingloading. There is a article about the competition at :
http://www.dropzone.com/news/RedBullSwoop8211masterso.shtml

http://www.ufufreefly.com