Record-seeking skydiver makes 13-mile test jump

Associated Press ^ | 3/15/2012 | Marcia Dunn

[crazyhorse691]

. 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

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Dude, there are jumps where the incoming fire pretty much eliminates about half of those other jumpers and getting to the ground alive becomes the numero uno object in your head...your definition of fun sucks!!!

[hattend]

If you can find it, the best account of the balloon experiments of the 50s is Kittinger’s Book, “The Long, Lonely Leap”.

I still find it now and then on eBay, I have 2 copies in my library.

[Daffynition]

[gortklattu]

I instructed for about four years. Only one student chickened out - but that was before the tandem days. The students went out alone.

If you jump again, try to get another jumper to swoop down to you.