(SSGX Origins) Let's make a Wipeout game! This time for real!

[Xpand]

A body's mass doesn't affect the speed of fall. All objects under the same gravitational field experience the same acceleration, independent on the mass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C5_dOEyAfk

Actually, through Newton's second law of motion (Yep, Newton was a genius... His stuff fits almost everything):
F=m.a
P=m.a (where P is the weight and the only force acting on the body)
m.g=m.a (the masses cancel each other out)
g=a (the only acceleration the body is subjected to is the gravitic acceleration, the masses don't affect the variation of speed during the drop)

And that looks slow motion because you dropped the object from a big height. Try putting a cube 10 meters above a plane and see the time it takes to colide with the plane. According to my calculations it should take about 1.43 seconds. If at 100 meters: 4.52 seconds.
Don't forget when the ships jump they have a part of the thrust force going upwards, therefore it makes it fly a lot longer, depending if the force is too strong or too weak...