Six feet, evidently.
With summer upon us the contractor I work for has won bids on installing new playground equipment at schools.
It is surrounded by curbs (flush with the ground, usually) and filled in with a foam rubber type substance about 3-4 inches thick. The equipment is installed before the foam filling and curbs are. Our job is to outline the proposed curbs to keep the equipment installers within the six foot limit. We then return and stake the curbs to meet the requirement of the curbs being no closer than six feet to the outermost part of the equipment. (Some of the curbs look like a revision cloud when working in tight areas.)
I was maybe 8 years old when mission control cleared me for launch from the Suspended Ways In Neutral Gravity - Single Elongated Traverse. I can tell you that I flew much further than 6 feet.
Depends on whether the flight was powered only by the pilot or if assailants (buddies, usually) were involved in the takeoff.
I would love to see some of the Youtube-worthy video of the scientists determining said safe distance using real youngsters.
Yeah Newt, but you have to admit - they don't make the vast majority of kids today like they used to make them back in our day. I guess the measurement should be based on how far can today's typical 125lb 8 year old kid can fly out of swing. Or maybe the real question is can today's typical 125lb 8 year old kid even fit in a swing? I guess the ADA or whatever government agency may need to reset the base requirements for playground toy loading strength, swing width, swing set chain strength, etc.
Yeah. You got that right. I was 10 before I weighed 125 lb.
Not much fat, mostly muscle. Could toss a classmate about 10 feet; even further if from the top of the slipper slide.
Sir:
I was only ever self powered. Anything else would have been cheating...
A few years ago, I set up a 3-swing & 1-tire swing set that's 14ft high. With 6 grand sons (and 3 grand daughters), so far nobody's gotten airborne yet ... however, the oldest is only 7, so there's plenty of time for the "no fear" syndrome to inculcate.
> A few years ago, I set up a 3-swing & 1-tire swing set that's 14ft high. With 6 grand sons (and 3 grand daughters), so far nobody's gotten airborne yet ... however, the oldest is only 7, so there's plenty of time for the "no fear" syndrome to inculcate.
By 7 I had launched from a set about that high. It was a wild flight until I hit. :excruciating: The next time I didn't launch quite as high. I learned fast. Too high hurts. Especially on a hard pan gravel covered playground. Of course swinging as high as the crossbar while still hanging on had its own thrills.
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