Sky-Diver Drag Race: What’s Quicker, Gravity or a Lamborghini Aventador?

Anyone familiar with rudimentary physics knows that acceleration due to gravity is 32.2 ft/s2 (9.8 m/s2). Just a handful of cars can match that in longitudinal acceleration, and even then only for a moment or two. But 32.2 ft/s2 is a lab number; in the real world, aerodynamic drag slows a falling body significantly. To [...]

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Jean Marc Gounon Emmanuel de Graffenried Lucas di Grassi Cecil Green