Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25221943-20160422175117/@comment-1519475-20160516145634

I saw an interview with someone who had a mishap using a Fulton Recovery System. Normal procedure has the subject facing backwards, relative to the airstream, but this fellow got twisted around and faced into the air flow. He described the wind being so powerful that air was forced into his lungs and he had great difficult exhaling. The only stats I could find on airspeed were a reference to an early test conducted with aircraft speeds of 125 mph. Based on the above and the lack of breathing apparatus, we can put the upper bound far lower than simply Mach 1 and closer to 100 mph. A generous approximation gives the EXO-7 about 2.9m^2 of wing. I can grind some math later to see how fast that would need to go to lift on the order of 400lbs, or 2 adults and a small amount of gear, but my hunch is that this will be one of those times where I need to put the slide rule down and just enjoy the movie.