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The USAF had a program in the 1959-1960 in which successful free jumps 
were made from balloons at up to ~32 km (100,000 ft.). The relevance was 
astronauts and SR-71 bailouts. This would top that achievement 
comfortably.

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

Chuck

On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 11:20 AM, Owen Byrne wrote:

> John Hall wrote:
>
>> Why so fast?  Normal terminal velocity is much slower.
>>
> Not at 40,000 m. I found this article 
> (http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,53928,00.html) :
>
> "The last person to try to break the highest free fall record died in 
> the attempt. In 1965, New Jersey truck driver Nick Piantanida suffered 
> catastrophic equipment failure when his facemask blew out at 57,000 
> feet. Lack of oxygen caused such severe brain damage that he went into 
> a coma and died four months later."
>
> And in amongst the flash at
> http://www.legrandsaut.org/site_en/
>
> you can discover that he will break the sound barrier at 35,000 m,
> presumably reaching top speed somewhere above 30,000.
>
> Owen
>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: fork-admin@xent.com [mailto:fork-admin@xent.com] On Behalf Of
>>> bitbitch@magnesium.net
>>> Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 8:36 AM
>>> To: (Robert Harley)
>>> Cc: fork@spamassassin.taint.org
>>> Subject: Re: The Big Jump
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> So uh, would this qualify for the Darwin awards if he doesn't make it?
>>>
>>> Freaking french people...
>>>   :-)
>>> -BB
>>> RH> Today a French officer called Michel Fournier is supposed to get
>>>
>> in a
>>
>>> RH> 350-metre tall helium balloon, ride it up to the edge of space (40
>>>
>> km
>>
>>> RH> altitude) and jump out.  His fall should last 6.5 minutes and
>>>
>> reach
>>
>>> RH> speeds of Mach 1.5.  He hopes to open his parachute manually at
>>>
>> the
>>
>>> RH> end, although with an automatic backup if he is 7 seconds from the
>>> RH> ground and still hasn't opened it.
>>>
>>> RH> R
>>>
>>> RH> ObQuote:
>>> RH>   "Vederņ, si averņ si grossi li coglioni, come ha il re di
>>>
>> Franza."
>>
>>> RH>   ("Let's see if I've got as much balls as the King of France!")
>>> RH>   - Pope Julius II, 2 January 1511
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best regards,
>>> bitbitch                            mailto:bitbitch@magnesium.net
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>


