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How Fast Is Skydiver (terminal)?

53.0 m/s
191 km/h · 119 mph

Belly-down skydivers reach terminal velocity at about 53 m/s — 195 km/h. Head-down can hit 320 km/h. Felix Baumgartner broke the sound barrier in free fall from 39 km up in 2012, reaching 1,357 km/h.

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Indoor 'skydiving' uses vertical wind tunnels with fans powerful enough to suspend a person — the same fan technology used to test full-size aircraft.

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