Could the evil escape the Falcon in an outfit for two?

I am everything Hawk and Winter Soldier“The last Marvel session on Disney +.” Calm down, I’m not going to ruin anything serious. I want to talk about the wing garments in Section 1. Sam Wilson (Falcon) confronts the hostage situation on a military plane. The villains take the hostage and jump off the plane in winged clothes. If you haven’t seen these, they’re basically paragliders, with extra material between their arms and legs to make them look like wings — that’s the name.

The guerrillas don’t have wing suits, so they tie them to the back of a bad guy jumper. After that, Falcon flies to chase, and there are some things in action; see, no real spoilers.

But really, it’s just a chance to talk about some fun physics. So let’s look at the following two questions. One: At what speed can a man fly with a south suit? Two: What would happen if you had one more (kidnapped) man in the back of the plane sweater?

Free Fall

Let’s start with something simple and then make it harder. (That’s what we like to do in physics.) Suppose you’ve jumped from a plane and there’s no atmosphere. Yes, it would be very strange, but think about it. In this case, only one force would be acting on you – the gravitational force that pulls you down, as a result of the interaction between you and the Earth. Gravitational force can be calculated as a product of your mass (in kilograms) and gravitational field (which we use) g for this). While you are about 100 kilometers from the earth’s surface, the gravitational field is about 9.8 tons per kilogram.

What does this constant downward gravitational force do in an airless world? That’s where Newton’s second law comes into play. It gives the following relationship between force and acceleration:

Two important notes. First, both forces and accelerations are vectors. (That’s why they have an arrow on them). This means that there are two magnitudes and direction matters. Second, this statement deals with net strength (full force). Since there is only gravitational force, you would accelerate downward; your speed would increase as you fall. But that’s just a fall and not a winged outfit.