X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com X-SpamCatcher-Score: 1 [X] Return-Path: Received: from mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.115] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.4) with ESMTP id 1760675 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:28:35 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=204.127.131.115; envelope-from=keltro@att.net Received: from mwebmail08.att.net ([204.127.135.29]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc11) with SMTP id <200701151727371110092a1pe>; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:27:47 +0000 Received: from [64.250.200.19] by mwebmail08.att.net; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:27:22 +0000 From: keltro@att.net (Kelly Troyer) To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Subject: Off Topic_Perhaps of Interest Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:27:22 +0000 Message-Id: <011520071727.21528.45ABB978000C18C2000054182160375964019D9B040A05@att.net> X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Jul 31 2006) X-Authenticated-Sender: a2VsdHJvQGF0dC5uZXQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_21528_1168882042_0" --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_21528_1168882042_0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Guys Interesting to me as a sometime skydiver........Thought Mark Steitle might be interested as ceremony is in Austin ,TX........Honors one of our relatively unknown Heros....... -- Kelly Troyer "Dyke Delta"_13B ROTARY Engine "RWS"_RD1C/EC2/EM2 "Mistral"_Backplate/Oil Manifold Texas CAP Squadron Will Honor 'Long Lonely Leap' Skydiver Col. Joseph Kittinger Holds Record For Highest Parachute Jump Colonel Joseph W. Kittinger, USAF-Ret., will be honored by the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) when it renames its Austin, TX-based TX-352 squadron in his honor during a special ceremony on January 23 at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Kittinger holds the longstanding record for the highest parachute jump in history, from 102,800 feet, achieved on August 16, 1960. Then-Captain Kittinger, test director of the Project Excelsior government research project, piloted a gas balloon to the high altitude and jumped from his open capsule in -94 degree F temperatures above the New Mexico desert. He reached the speed of sound as he sped through the stratosphere in a four minute, thirty-seven second free-fall before opening his parachute at 17,500 feet and continuing safely to earth. The historic 15-minute journey became known as the Long Lonely Leap, and heralded the beginning of the manned space-race. Kittinger is the subject of two books, The Long Lonely Leap and The Pre-Astronauts. He also served multiple tours as an F-4D Phantom II pilot in Vietnam and was one of the few Air Commandos to score a victory over a MiG-21. Toward the war's end he was shot down and spent 11 months in the Hanoi Hilton. Kittinger also holds many aviation and aeronautical records, including the first solo crossing of the Atlantic in a balloon in 1984. The ceremony begins at 7 p.m. at TxDOT Flight Services, 10335 Golf Course Rd. in Austin. The program will include film footage and several speeches by CAP members, as well as a patriotic lecture by Colonel Kittinger. The public is invited to attend the free event. FMI: www.cap.gov, www.eaa.org --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_21528_1168882042_0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Guys

Interesting to me as a sometime skydiver........Thought Mark Steitle might be interested

as ceremony is in Austin ,TX........Honors one of our relatively unknown Heros.......

--
Kelly Troyer
"Dyke Delta"_13B ROTARY Engine
"RWS"_RD1C/EC2/EM2
"Mistral"_Backplate/Oil Manifold

Texas CAP Squadron Will Honor 'Long Lonely Leap' Skydiver Col. Joseph Kittinger
Holds Record For Highest Parachute
Jump

Colonel Joseph W. Kittinger,
USAF-Ret., will be honored by the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) when it
renames its Austin, TX-based TX-352 squadron in his honor during a
special ceremony on January 23 at Austin-Bergstrom International
Airport. Kittinger holds the longstanding record for the highest
parachute jump in history, from 102,800 feet, achieved on August
16, 1960.

Then-Captain Kittinger, test director of the Project Excelsior
government research project, piloted a gas balloon to the high
altitude and jumped from his open capsule in -94 degree F
temperatures above the New Mexico desert. He reached the speed of
sound as he sped through the stratosphere in a four minute,
thirty-seven second free-fall before opening his parachute at
17,500 feet and continuing safely to earth.

The histo ric 15-minute journey became known as the Long Lonely
Leap, and heralded the beginning of the manned space-race.
Kittinger is the subject of two books, The Long Lonely Leap and The
Pre-Astronauts. He also served multiple tours as an F-4D Phantom II
pilot in Vietnam and was one of the few Air Commandos to score a
victory over a MiG-21.

Toward the war's end he was shot down and spent 11 months in the
Hanoi Hilton. Kittinger also holds many aviation and aeronautical
records, including the first solo crossing of the Atlantic in a
balloon in 1984.

The ceremony begins at 7 p.m. at TxDOT Flight Services, 10335
Golf Course Rd. in Austin. The program will include film footage
and several speeches by CAP members, as well as a patriotic lecture
by Colonel Kittinger. The public is invited to attend the free
event.
FMI: www.cap.gov, www.eaa.org

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