To: dead
CAPT (later COL) Joseph Kittinger jumped from something like 102 kft during Project Excelsior ... he used a drogue chute to prevent spinning. This also prevented him going supersonic.
14 posted on
02/07/2012 11:36:18 AM PST by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: ArrogantBustard
58 posted on
02/07/2012 1:45:36 PM PST by
Colonel_Flagg
(Why, yes. I AM in a bad mood.)
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