Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-june Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!uw-june!pablo From: pablo@uw-june (David Cohn) Newsgroups: net.rec.skydive Subject: A lonnnnng fall. Message-ID: <49@uw-june> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 17:58:18 EST Article-I.D.: uw-june.49 Posted: Thu Nov 7 17:58:18 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 05:32:52 EST Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 14 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 attached to this brave soul registered him approaching the speed of sound. Does anyone have details of this jump ( who, when, why, how did they get him up that high, how fast, how long, did it really happen?). Not that I'm planning on beating his/her record, I'm just a bit curious. ------- -pablo ("Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before." - Brian Orr)