A difficult photo to develop.

[alain 0]

The highest jump in the world, 102,000ft up, a little cold and a long climb to altitude.... However, the view is great and pretty impressive. So, just wondering... how the hell did he take the photo... and how did he bring the camera back to develop the film??? Any ideas...

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http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/coldwar/pe.htm

I think you'll see that he didn't take the photos at all, but rather a camera mounted on the gondola did automatically.

I assume the gondola was located and recovered with the use of a radio beacon. Not really a big deal even by 1959 standards.

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[quade 3]

Oh, I left out one more link that's pretty interesting . . .

http://www.canadianarrow.com/spacediving.htm

I wonder how much the jump ticket would be?

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[andy2 0]

I wonder how many points a good 4 way team could turn on that dive?

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[Blahr 0]

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I wonder how many points a good 4 way team could turn on that dive?

Probably not as many as you might think. That jump has a hell of a hill.

No air, no control.

[SLOfreefall 0]

That picture is great!!!

[D22369 0]

I wonder how many points a good 4 way team could turn on that dive?

--> I think they would find that the air is "very" thin there, and their controll would be ..... tenuous at best..........at least till they got to the lower alts....

Roy

They say I suffer from insanity.... But I actually enjoy it.

[evilivan 0]

.....not to mention the suits they would have to wear....

"If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation."
David Brent

[storm1977 0]

Not to metion if you funnel thing could get hairy since the fall rate at altitude could reach 800mph. Swooping into formation is just not an option.

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[TEB6363 0]

Not as good a view, but Tunnel time would be cheaper

Once the plane takes off, you're gonna have to land - Might as well jump out!!

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Oh, I left out one more link that's pretty interesting.

Old news:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/13/176248

my critique here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9951&cid=509644

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You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

[Ron 7]

looks like he is gonna bust a cloud.....

FAA!!!! over here!!!

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[councilman24 36]

This was testing for the airforce as part of the space program. No FAA allowed.

Colonel Kittinger was the keynote speaker at the 2001 PIA symposium in San Diego. Got to meet and greet and I have his autograph on the cover of the Life magazine that used this photo as the cover. A cool part of parachuting history.

Terry

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[alain 0]

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looks like he is gonna bust a cloud.....

yep, that's what i prefer in that pic

thanx all for input

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I dunno how he did it, but he got 800 feet of extra altitude then . . . 102,800.

Well, clearly, he has a bigger set than most.

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