One giant step..

Maliki · Post by **Maliki** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:16 pm

I posted this over at MC's but i thought some of you would like it as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81gn2oLeC_U

That is an awesome video in my opinion.

Terminus · Post by **Terminus** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:37 pm

Oh yeah, the Kittinger film... Excellent... And an unbelievably brave man...

Maliki · Post by **Maliki** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:44 pm

Believe it or not i never heard of him until recently.I'm pissed at my teachers for not telling us about him.They could have cut five minutes out of telling us about LBJ"s Great Society or Gloria Steinman and the ERA over the three years that we would learn about them at the end of may(Our textbooks ended with Nixons impeachment)To say...You guys want to see/hear something cool?[8|]

robpost3 · Post by **robpost3** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:20 pm

Thanks that was cool!!! I mixed out the techno plop and put Pink Floyd Learning to Fly...wow...

Arctic Blast · Post by **Arctic Blast** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:55 am

Wow...first time I had ever seen this, as well.

Maliki · Post by **Maliki** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:25 am

ORIGINAL: Arctic Blast

Wow...first time I had ever seen this, as well.

Repost my brother.Repost the link to all.Lets make this man a household name.Lets replace the hate of of a national conversation of a nappy headed dyke...with one of a person whom risked all..to further our understaninding of the universe[:D]

Would anyone here take a step of faith from a mile up..let alone ten miles high?

sven · Post by **sven** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:14 am

ORIGINAL: Maliki

Repost my brother.Repost the link to all.Lets make this man a household name.Lets replace the hate of of a national conversation of a nappy headed dyke...with one of a person whom risked all..to further our understaninding of the universe[:D]

Would anyone here take a step of faith from a mile up..let alone ten miles high?

do a google on him....his POW years were fascinating.

Helluva guy.

Doggie · Post by **Doggie** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:55 am

I first heard about him in elementary school in West Virginia, circa 1964 or so.  About the same time we were learning about West Virginian Chuck Yeager.  They were always mighty proud of that boy back in west Virginia.

JudgeDredd · Post by **JudgeDredd** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:02 am

Well, pretty amazing

Marc von Martial · Post by **Marc von Martial** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:10 am

I guess the term "hero" applies here. Awesome.

old man of the sea · Post by **old man of the sea** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:43 am

he's one cool monkey

Neilster · Post by **Neilster** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:46 am

From memory, he had a leaky glove that made his hand swell up massively.

Cheers, Neilster

pasternakski · Post by **pasternakski** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:03 am

ORIGINAL: Neilster
he had a leaky glove that made his hand swell up massively.

Cheers, Neilster

Didn't that happen to Michael Jackson, too?

JudgeDredd · Post by **JudgeDredd** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:12 am

Yes...but it wasn't because he had a leaky glove! muuuaaaahhhhhaaa

Maliki · Post by **Maliki** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:33 pm

ORIGINAL: sven

ORIGINAL: Maliki

Repost my brother.Repost the link to all.Lets make this man a household name.Lets replace the hate of of a national conversation of a nappy headed dyke...with one of a person whom risked all..to further our understaninding of the universe[:D]

Would anyone here take a step of faith from a mile up..let alone ten miles high?

do a google on him....his POW years were fascinating.

Helluva guy.

I read a thing where he cooperrated with the NVA.I don't give a shit what his life was like afterwards..That one instance made him a fucking hero..Who here would jump 20 miles..with zero garuntees?

No one.

pasternakski · Post by **pasternakski** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:07 pm

Well, I jumped about 1 3/4 million feet ... 6-10 thousand at a time...

sven · Post by **sven** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:50 pm

ORIGINAL: Maliki

I read a thing where he cooperrated with the NVA.I don't give a shit what his life was like afterwards..That one instance made him a fucking hero..Who here would jump 20 miles..with zero garuntees?

No one.

My understanding is he refused to break, but also refused to wallow in tortured self-emotional flagellation. He was known for his cheerful demeanor and faith that sooner or later he would go home. 307 days later(over the course of two calender years) he did.

The USAF allowed him to stay on until 1978(when he was 50) and so far as I know he was not stripped of any clearence so I doubt he broke.

On the other hand even if he did I agree he was still brave and the fact is confronted with the Hanoi Hilton damn near everyone broke to whatever degree....except maybe Stockdale.

Maliki · Post by **Maliki** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:11 am

ORIGINAL: pasternakski

Well, I jumped about 1 3/4 million feet ... 6-10 thousand at a time...

I remember the time i fell off a barstool.There might even be a video of it on Youtube also.

I think it had a soundtrack to it too.
[:D]

pasternakski · Post by **pasternakski** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:51 am

ORIGINAL: Maliki
I remember the time i fell off a barstool.

AND LIVED? WITH NO GUARANTEES?

Maliki, you be mah heeee-ro!

Maliki · Post by **Maliki** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:27 am

ORIGINAL: pasternakski

ORIGINAL: Maliki
I remember the time i fell off a barstool.
AND LIVED? WITH NO GUARANTEES?

Maliki, you be mah heeee-ro!

Aww..shucks.

I didin't do anything more than anyone else here would have done.

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