Scuba Do
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Doing pretty much anything with my kids, but especially backpacking or golfing (though I am terrible at the latter) with them.
And you?
And you?
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m3830431
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kids are all grown up.
Diving this weekend?
Diving this weekend?
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ch0ppersrule
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no clue, but i jumped from 15K feet
do you skip breakfast?
do you skip breakfast?
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Captain Kittinger was assigned to the Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. For Project Excelsior (meaning "ever upward", a name given to the project by Colonel Stapp), as part of research into high altitude bailout, he made a series of three parachute jumps wearing a pressurized suit, from a helium balloon with an open gondola.
The first, from 76,400 feet (23,287 m) in November, 1959 was a near tragedy when an equipment malfunction caused him to lose consciousness, but the automatic parachute saved him (he went into a flat spin at a rotational velocity of 120 rpm; the G factor at his extremities was calculated to be over 22 times that of gravity, setting another record). Three weeks later he jumped again from 74,700 feet (22,769 m). For that return jump Kittinger was awarded the Leo Stevens parachute medal.
On August 16, 1960 he made the final jump from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,330 m). Towing a small drogue chute for stabilization, he fell for 4 minutes and 36 seconds reaching a maximum speed of 614 mph before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m). Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, causing his hand to swell. He set records for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest drogue-fall (14 min) and fastest speed by a man through the atmosphere.
Ever try a toothpaste sandwhich, with onion and beer?
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ch0ppersrule
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how hard IS this ground?
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Check the kitchen table.
Do I really have to go to work tonight?
Do I really have to go to work tonight?
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