[Moonman62]

Who took the pictures?

[Toddsterpatriot]

Alan Greenspan.

[Wardenclyffe]

I think most were taken from the gondola, though it looks like some of them are satellite images. Here's an artist's rendering from just below the famous jump.

[Young Werther]

While attending Comm Officer school one of my classmates was a major who had survived an ejection from a B-58. He had been encased in the ejection shell but was banged up and no longer fit for flight duty He was attending Comm School and was destined to finish as a groound pounder!

While at Minot AFB I met a Lt Col who was now the Base Personnel Officer. He had survived an ejection from an SR-71. When I asked him at what altitude he was at he said around 60,000 feet! I advised him that I was the Base Top Secret Control Officer and he could tell me the real altitude.

He said, "Well we were crusing at about 116,000 when the poop hit the fan and we hit the silk!