"Peter Clark" wrote in message
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On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 15:28:18 -0400, "Gary Drescher"
wrote:

"Peter Clark" wrote in message
And as CJ pointed out, same site,
http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/ffallers.html has entries for two
falls from 20k and 22k, outside of the destroyed airframe, and
survived.

Unfortunately, the site lacks any documentation for those claims. They
*might* be true, but all the site itself tells us is that someone
somewhere
in the world says so on some unspecified basis.

Um, googling Alan Magee brings up an article in the Free Republic
reprinting (reposting?) an article from the Albuquerque Journal which
references a 1981 Smithsonian Magazine as the original source of the
story.

Even a perfunctory googling of the 1st name on the link I gave (Lt.
I.M. Chisov) brings up the same link
(http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1071076/posts) and references
Hecht, Eugene. Physics: Calculus. 2nd ed. p. 85 as their source. The
209blah link is the third one Google brings up...

I'd found the physics-text reference via Google, but that doesn't seem like
an authoritative source for a news story. The Smithsonian Magazine reference
looks more promising; thanks for the pointer.

--Gary