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Record-seeking skydiver makes 13-mile test jump
Associated Press ^
| 3/15/2012
| Marcia Dunn
Posted on 03/15/2012 8:15:58 PM PDT by U-238
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Joseph Kittinger still holds the record.He set historical numbers for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest drogue-fall (four minutes), and fastest speed by a human being through the atmosphere.
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posted on
03/15/2012 8:16:05 PM PDT
by
U-238
To: U-238
Kittenger is currently advising Felix Baumgartner .
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posted on
03/15/2012 8:17:24 PM PDT
by
U-238
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks U-238. And the most risky thing I’ve done lately is drive on 28th St.
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posted on
03/15/2012 8:19:42 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.)
To: U-238
'Zactly....been there, done that.
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posted on
03/15/2012 8:21:53 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Carterize Obama in November)
To: U-238
Why is it called a jump?? It’s really a gravity induced fall.
LOL
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posted on
03/15/2012 8:22:02 PM PDT
by
Ecliptic
To: U-238
I jumped from 13,500 feet...once... and it was tandem. It was the most fun I ever had, just need to do it more often.
I had it video taped and they dubbed in Van Halen's 'Jump'. Maybe I'll go again when my kid turns 16.
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posted on
03/15/2012 8:24:00 PM PDT
by
scripter
("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
To: ErnBatavia
Joe Kittenger! You beat me to it.
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posted on
03/15/2012 8:24:52 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
To: U-238
I saw Kittengers jump on TV the other day.
Terrifying.
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posted on
03/15/2012 8:27:09 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: mylife
Talk about pucker factor... I don’t like getting on a ladder. My crazy days are over..
To: scripter
I have hundreds of jumps, so wish to tell you something.
Relative work - where jumpers hook up with each other - - is one of the most fun things in life. I loved to jump last. You have to catch up to the other jumpers and to do so would go into a dive that would speed you past 200 mph. It was the biggest rush imaginable.
Good luck to this jumper. That’s a LONG time to fall.
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posted on
03/15/2012 8:42:23 PM PDT
by
gortklattu
(God knows who is best, everybody else is making guesses - Tony Snow)
To: U-238
Joseph Kittinger still holds the record...
To: ErnBatavia
They don’t use those front mounted reserve chutes any more. Mine worked for my only malfunction, thank God. They’ve all gone to twin packs on the back.
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posted on
03/15/2012 8:51:22 PM PDT
by
gortklattu
(God knows who is best, everybody else is making guesses - Tony Snow)
To: goseminoles
My crazy days are over too.
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posted on
03/15/2012 8:56:27 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: U-238
Has there been video of this test jump posted anywhere?
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posted on
03/15/2012 8:58:41 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Ronaldus Magnus
And he did it with a leak in his pressure suit!
His hand swelled to double its normal size.
He looked like HDS when he was recovered on the ground.
(Hammered Dog S***)
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posted on
03/15/2012 8:59:39 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: gortklattu
I was the first of about 14 into the plane so I was the last out. While standing half inside and half outside the plane, I asked the instructor if anybody chickened-out at that point. As he said 'no' we both jumped. What a thrill! I remember looking back at that perfectly good plane and realized I jumped out of it (or was pushed)! :-)
Definitely want to do it again.
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posted on
03/15/2012 9:16:25 PM PDT
by
scripter
("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
To: U-238
I feel off a 100 foot ladder once...
Thank god I was only on the second step!
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posted on
03/15/2012 9:24:24 PM PDT
by
hadaclueonce
(you are paying 12% more for fuel because of Ethanol. Smile big Corn Lobby,)
To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
03/15/2012 9:31:03 PM PDT
by
U-238
To: U-238
Both crazy mofo’s with much larger huevos than I............
To: doorgunner69
I would do it in a heart beat. Anything to get that adrenaline going
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posted on
03/15/2012 11:45:46 PM PDT
by
U-238
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