Question: All quantities are known except the person s projected area. This is an adult ( 8 5 kg ) falling spread eagle. We can estimate

All quantities are known except the persons projected area. This is an adult (85 kg) falling spread eagle. We can estimate the frontal area as

A=(2 m)(0.35 m)=0.70m2.

My question is, how did they find these numbers to calculate this? 

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