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HarrogateTobias

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Still the highest skydive in history and it was 51 years ago....

The jump set records that still stand today, among them, the highest parachute jump, the longest freefall, and the fastest speed ever attained by a human through the atmosphere.

[video=youtube;81gn2oLeC_U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81gn2oLeC_U[/video]
 
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I have seen this so many times ,and i stll had to watch it again !
A bunch of boffins said to him its fine it will work and he believed them !! Mad man !!!!!

Jason
 
Better with a sound track, probably the most amazing act man has done, apart from inventing drink...
Boards of Canada Dayvan Cowbow [video=youtube;lrBZeWjGjl8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrBZeWjGjl8[/video]
Amazing!!!!!
 
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Joe Kittinger
I worked for Rosie OGradys in Orlando back in the early 1980s and he flew the sky wrighting byplane. Had many conversations with him about terminal volocity, sky diving and stuff. Did not find out all the fame until later. But man he did have some great stories to tell.
 
Another thumbs up for Dayvan Cowboy. The album it's from - Campfire Headphase - should be a bushcraft classic.
 
Joe Kittinger
I worked for Rosie OGradys in Orlando back in the early 1980s and he flew the sky wrighting byplane. Had many conversations with him about terminal volocity, sky diving and stuff. Did not find out all the fame until later. But man he did have some great stories to tell.

WOW! that would be an ace coffee break.
 
Joe Kittinger
I worked for Rosie OGradys in Orlando back in the early 1980s and he flew the sky wrighting byplane. Had many conversations with him about terminal volocity, sky diving and stuff. Did not find out all the fame until later. But man he did have some great stories to tell.

Thats incredible. your a lucky guy, what did he say about the jump? if you can remember
 
It was many years ago. I didnt know his feats then all I knew was his flying and that he skydived. I wish I knew more back then. He was a humble man but would answer questions when asked.
 
Kittinger fell for 4 minutes and 36 seconds reaching a maximum speed of 988 km/h (!!!!) before opening his parachute at 5,500 m. If there is a definition for awesome, that’s it.

And the best part is that a year before he made a jump from 23.2 km where an equipment malfunction caused him to lose consciousness, but he was saved by the automatic parachute (he went into a flat spin at a rotational velocity of 120 rpm; the g-force at his extremities was calculated to be over 22 times that of gravity, setting another record). He recovered and was raring to go back at it.

Col. Joseph Kittinger is a stud.

And Boards of Canada are phenomenal.
 
Kittinger fell for 4 minutes and 36 seconds reaching a maximum speed of 988 km/h (!!!!) before opening his parachute at 5,500 m. If there is a definition for awesome, that’s it.

And the best part is that a year before he made a jump from 23.2 km where an equipment malfunction caused him to lose consciousness, but he was saved by the automatic parachute (he went into a flat spin at a rotational velocity of 120 rpm; the g-force at his extremities was calculated to be over 22 times that of gravity, setting another record). He recovered and was raring to go back at it.

Col. Joseph Kittinger is a stud.

And Boards of Canada are phenomenal.

i didnt know that thanks. i was told from BBC QI that the speed on a human at full velocity was 120mph but in thin air it mush me more... im not sure

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