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From: mspurgeo@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Mike Spurgeon)
Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: Skydiving at supersonic airspeeds
Summary: It's already been done
Message-ID: <3547@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 24 Jun 91 22:47:26 GMT
References: <1991Jun24.135815.8781@cc.curtin.edu.au>
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
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In article <1991Jun24.135815.8781@cc.curtin.edu.au>, tcliftonr@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
> How gung-ho do they have to be?  What a story that would
> make!   "First supersonic skydiver in history strains for a
> morsel more of the unknown..."

Are you guys forgetting that it's already been done?  If I'm not
mistaken, subsequent calculations showed that Col. Kittinger DID
go supersonic briefly on his 102,000 foot jump.

Mike Spurgeon
Internet: mspurgeo@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu