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On Mon, 26 Sep 1994 heinzl@wi*.lk*.de*.co* wrote:

> shooting for the world record parachute height - going from a hot air 
> balloon.  I remember that these balloons were up at a height of 100,000 feet

They were helium balloons

> (+- a few thousand at various times).  Now, they were wearing suits,
> but I thought that they were exposure suits for the cold with supplementary
> O2 and not some type of pressure suit (i.e. they did not maintain pressure 
> the way an astronaut's suit would).  Am I mistaken (were these suits
> pressure suits?)???

They were actual pressure suits, just like astronaut suits. If Mike 
Menduno was around in the early '60's, he would have called it Technical 
Skydiving.

Interesting aside: During free-fall, the officer who did these jumps would 
accelerate up to the speed of sound!

-Dan
dan@sh*.ne*							mig@shadow.net
Murphy's laws of combat #38:
			"Tracers work both ways."

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