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From: scw@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.rec.skydive
Subject: Re: A lonnnnng fall.
Message-ID: <7772@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 13:26:27 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 26 13:26:27 1985
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Reply-To: scw@ucla-cs.UUCP (Stephen C. Woods)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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In article <49@uw-june> pablo@uw-june (David Cohn) writes:
>
>   I remember hearing recently that the record for the longest freefall
>was set from something like 100,000 feet with a pressure suit and oxygen.
>Supposedly, at that altitude, terminal velocity is high enough so that
>the instruments [...] his/her record, I'm just a bit curious.

If memory serves, the jump was in the late 50's/early 60's.  The Fellow 
(an Air Force Capt as I recall) jumped from a high altitude balloon (He
also holds/held the balloon altitude record), and yse his terminal velocity
was just under Mach 1.