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MACH 0.9 Freefall from the upper Stratosphere!

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:48 pm
by New92
This guy is the ultimate adrenalin junkie. And how do you follow up an act like that? Why, opt for two tours in Vietnam, get shot down twice and spend a year as a POW in a North Vietcong torture camp!

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/ae ... 0243.shtml

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 7:11 pm
by Richard
We read about this guy, and other daring pioneers, in my JROTC class. This guy had BIG cajones. Also interesting, Chuck Yeager flew the Bell X-1 and broke the sound barrier with a broken rib.