Crossword clues for freefall
freefall
- Time before the parachute opens
- Skydiver's thrill
- Sky diver's thrill
- Paratrooper's start
- Parachutist's thrill
- Occurrence before the chute opens
- It's 2002, and Sid the Skydiver finds his stocks in ___ ...
- It ends when the parachute opens
- Downward movement under the force of gravity
- Descent, before the parachute opens
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context physics English) The state of being in a motion affected by no acceleration (force) other than that provided by gravity. 2 (context common usage English) The state of falling with no interference from outside forces other than the air resistance (no open parachute, etc.) 3 (context by extension English) The state of worsening out of control. 4 (context as a modifier English) Of or related to freefall in any sense. n. 1 (context physics English) The state of being in a motion affected by no acceleration (force) other than that provided by gravity. 2 (context common usage English) The state of falling with no interference from outside forces other than the air resistance (no open parachute, etc.) 3 (context by extension English) The state of worsening out of control. 4 (context as a modifier English) Of or related to freefall in any sense. vb. To drop in a state of '''freefall'''.
Wikipedia
Freefall is the code name of a fictional comic book character Roxanne "Roxy" Spaulding from Wildstorm Comics. She is a member of the superhero team Gen¹³.
The Freefall is an amusement ride developed by Giovanola and marketed throughout the world by Swiss company, Intamin. Two generations of this ride were developed. First generation Freefall rides can be identified by the angled supports at the base of the lift tower. Second generation Freefall rides were identical, but the tower's base structure on those variants did not taper outward.
It was a common ride at major amusement parks until the late 1990s, when the classic freefall rides began being replaced with larger, higher-capacity Drop Tower alternatives. Since then, Freefalls have been disappearing from midways, to be replaced by the newer-technology rides such as the Intamin Giant Drop (2nd generation), Gyro Drop (3rd generation), and the S&S Power series of compressed-air tower rides.
Currently, Demon Drop at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom, Free Fall (Elevador) at Beto Carrero World, Brazil, Hollywood Action Tower at Movie Studios Park, Italy, Freefall at Rusutsu Resort, Japan,'' Free Fall'' at Central Park, Japan, Free Fall at Nagashima Spa Land, Japan, Free Fall at Tokyo Sommerland, Japan are the only remaining Intamin first generation Freefall rides in operation.
Freefall is the title of the first solo album by British Christian singer-songwriter Steve Flashman.
Freefall (sometimes known simply as Tunnels 3) is the second sequel to the book Tunnels, and is the third book in the series by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams. Contrary to a number of erroneous comments in the media, Freefall was not the final novel in the Tunnels series, and the fourth book, Closer, was published by Chicken House in the UK on 3 May 2010.
'' Freefall'' picks up the story where the second book left off, and describes the events after Will Burrows, Chester Rawls, Elliott, and Bartleby have plummeted down a huge opening in the Deeps, finding themselves at an even greater depth in the Earth. As the story unfolds, Will and his father, Dr. Burrows, discover a way back to Topsoil and return to Highfield, a new character, Martha, is introduced, and there are two major confrontations with the Rebecca twins, the main antagonists of the series.
Freefall is a 1994 action film starring Eric Roberts, Jeff Fahey and Pamela Gidley. It is directed by John Irvin, written and produced by David Zito and Les Weldon.
The story tells about undercover INTERPOL agent Grant Orion (Roberts), who, after recently being falsely accused of a crime, attempts to prove his innocence to wildlife photographer Katy Mazur (Gidley) while rescuing her from an assassin organisation led by her fiancé Dex Dellum (Fahey).
Originally intended for a theatrical release, the movie was released straight to VHS in the United States by Vidmark Entertainment and in Canada that same year by Cineplex Odeon. In 2002, Platinum Disc released a DVD of the film.
Freefall is an EP by Chapterhouse released in 1990. Its first track, "Falling Down", was used as part of their debut album, Whirlpool. The other tracks were released on the 2006 reissue of Whirlpool along with Sunburst and Pearl.
Freefall is a BBC television film written and directed by Dominic Savage, that premiered on BBC Two on 14 July 2009.
Set in autumn 2007, Freefall is a dramatic satire of the mortgage crisis that led to the worldwide economic downturn. Dominic Cooper stars as Dave Matthews, a charismatic corporate psychopath who sells mortgages in Watford, Hertfordshire, to families denied credit whether they can afford repayment or not. In the series, Dave meets up with an old school mate, Jim Potter (played by Joseph Mawle) who becomes another of Dave's mortgage victims. Despite a confrontation from Jim, Dave feels nothing and moves on to sell expensive solar panel packages to upper middle class house wives. Aidan Gillen stars as Gus, a high flying workaholic who sells corporate mortgages.
This film highlights the delusional atmosphere of all walks of life prior to the economic collapse, from the naive working-class Jim to the high-flying workaholic Gus. Even Dave believes his own unfounded salesman spiel, crippling himself with a colossal £800,000 mortgage he quickly has to dispose of to "some rich mug". The film portrays the varying degrees of the collapse's effect on the different types of people involved, with Dave simply moving on to a different job compared to a complete breakdown and tragic end for Gus (shockingly the case for some bankers of the time).
A critic noted that the series' take on the credit crunch by writer and director Savage had heartfelt approach, but was hurt with the lack of subtlety.
Usage examples of "freefall".
And despite what EvenSong apparently thought, SpikeFeather agonised daily over his inability to act quickly enough to save FreeFall.
Oldsters died that way -- freefall diving without a backpack on, deliberately wandering near when they released the cloned elephants on a new world, banjaxing the safeties and stepping into the hopper of a strata machine -- but then ambulance crews took over.
Chief bosun Thomas Amidon lowers the Avon halfway down, gets lifted up by the next wave, can't keep up with the trough and freefalls to the bottom of the cable.
He moved quietly to the edge of the nearest promontory, then let himself drop into nothingness, counting to twenty through a heart-stopping freefall before he spread his arms and felt the air lift him.
I was floating free inside the cramped cockpit, within a freefalling constellation of water, tumbling paddle, and plunging kayak.
One second he was freefalling, the next he had been swallowed by the clouds.
As Paul watched, the rocky earth crumbled away beneath them and they went hissing and shrieking down the mountain, freefalling in a hail of loose stones and dirt.
A person in a spacesuit, freefalling straight down to the surface of Whirlygig, would hit at a speed of two kilometers a secondfast enough that the object in the suit afterwards would hardly be recognizable as human.
It climbs steeply until its acceleration reaches two Gs, then freefalls, creating a weightless environment for twenty or thirty seconds.
A jolt and a moment of giddy freefall, then a resounding splash, and I was up past Inv thighs in freezing water.
He kicked off his boots, stripped off the shipsuit, rolled under the cover, pulling the freefall strap across him, and was asleep before his arm dropped slowly back.
To a place like this one had to come walking firm and heavy on one's own two feet, just in case when they did the analyses they thought to check for what was usually there, but according to people who should know the end-products should be flushed out by a thirty-six hour abstinence, which was freefalling.
She had osmoted some with this limp fatso, his mind in freefall and turnaround, a rag-and-bone man, hollow, stuffed, made out of junk, junk.
He sets up each turn perfectly, coming in low for the high-banked curves so that his apogee -- and mine a few seconds later -- will be teetering right at the lip of the icy bank, careering out of the banked turn at just the right speed for the next descending straight, then banging and skipping down the long icy ramp so fast that vision blurs, the pounding comes up through my tailbone and spine so that vision is doubled, trebled, and my head pounds with the pain of it, then blurs again with the spray of ice chips flying, creating halos in the moonlight, bright as the unblinking stars spill and reel above us -- the brilliant stars competing even with the Oracle's glow and the asteroid moons' quick, tumbling light -- and then we are braking low and bouncing hard and riding high again, arresting into a sharp left that takes my breath away, then skidding into a sharper right, then pounding and flying down a straight so steep that the sled and I seem to be screaming into freefall.
Both FreeFall and EvenSong reddened, but whatever retort they might have made was cut off when Axis looked to the upper Chamber.