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Old March 21st 07, 09:03 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Jack
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Default High altitude jump from a nearly forgotten age

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