Bill Daniels wrote:
I caught this photo on the Soaring Wikipedia. As it happened, I knew then
Capt. Kittinger during these tests.
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See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kittinger-jump.jpg
Where are today's heros?
Obscured by the system, TV, and the Internet, yet not unknown to the
cognoscenti. Then we had Life magazine: now the information burden
of the mundane obscures the truly significant.
The rest of Kittinger's story is nearly as formidable as his balloon
jump.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger
Jack