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Article #26Re: A lonnnnng fall.
From: scw
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1985 18:26
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1985 18:26
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In article <49@uw-june> pablo@uw-june (David Cohn) writes: > > I remember hearing recently that the record for the longest freefall >was set from something like 100,000 feet with a pressure suit and oxygen. >Supposedly, at that altitude, terminal velocity is high enough so that >the instruments [...] his/her record, I'm just a bit curious. If memory serves, the jump was in the late 50's/early 60's. The Fellow (an Air Force Capt as I recall) jumped from a high altitude balloon (He also holds/held the balloon altitude record), and yse his terminal velocity was just under Mach 1.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!lll-crg!ucdavis!ucbvax!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!ucla-cs!scw From: scw@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.rec.skydive Subject: Re: A lonnnnng fall. Message-ID: <7772@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 13:26:27 EST Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.7772 Posted: Tue Nov 26 13:26:27 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 29-Nov-85 11:07:14 EST References: <49@uw-june> Reply-To: scw@ucla-cs.UUCP (Stephen C. Woods) Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 11