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Message: [QUOTE="JMD, post: 188070, member: 24087"] Sorry, but gravity works the same on 1 pound as it does on a ton, disregarding wind resistance, which is negligible in your case. Remember that Italian guy who dropped weights from the crooked tower about 400 years ago? :p It may take more horsepower to get the fat rider going the same speed, but once he attains the same speed as the skinny one, their flight paths should be identical. As stated earlier, landing is a different story, because that involves momentum, which is half the mass times the velocity squared. But even there, you can see that velocity, being squared, plays more a role than weight (mass, for our purposes here). :cool: [/QUOTE]