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Free fall

Perhaps the most exhilarating aspect of skydiving is the period of free fall when you plummet towards earth at about 200 kilometres an hour. This photograph shows two skydivers in free fall above Lake Wakatipu.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Aerial recreation – Parachuting and skydiving, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6101/free-fall (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 2 March 2009.