Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site nyit.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!nyit!mark From: mark@nyit.UUCP (Mark Smith) Newsgroups: net.rec.skydive Subject: Re: A lonnnnng fall. Message-ID: <162@nyit.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Jan-86 19:25:56 EST Article-I.D.: nyit.162 Posted: Wed Jan 1 19:25:56 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Jan-86 04:58:47 EST References: <7772@ucla-cs.ARPA> <92800006@infoswx> <373@link.UUCP> Organization: NYIT Computer Graphics Lab., Old Westbury, N.Y. Lines: 17 > I read about Kittinger in "Parachuting Folklore", a book by Horan(?) which I > Because he used a drogue chute for part of the decent, it is not classified > as the world's longest freefall, even though the drogue exerted little force > on him. The story about the world's longest freefall didn't sound too appetizing, escpecially when his blood boiled in his face. What's a drogue chute? -- Mark Smith NYIT Computer Graphics Laboratory Old Westbury, New York ...{philabs,sbcs}!nyit!mark