Tue, 09 Oct 2012
Joseph Kittinger's 1960 skydive from 31km - Video
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Colonel Joseph Kittinger's 1960 "19 1/2 mile" jump.
Reaching a speed of 988 km/h during the 4:30 of free-fall (the film says 450 mph, but Wikipedia has the recording at 614 mph).
The jump made several world records for the highest, fastest and longest skydive.