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Michael Farensen

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Feb 14, 2003, 7:20:16 PM2/14/03
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Hi everybody,

First: I know virtually nothing about skydiving, so please forgive me
any stooopidities...

When recently zapping through TV, I came to a documentary about the
history of skydiving; stunned, I watched some weirdo jump out of a
weather balloon in 18+ miles. After a little internet research I'm
pretty sure that I was watching the Joe Kittinger "Excelsior III"
jump.

Does anybody know about an online source where to download movie files
of his freefall?

THX in advance
Michael
(x-post, f'up2 rs)

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I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or
numbered. My life is my own.
- No. 6, "The Prisoner"

pilotdave

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Feb 15, 2003, 1:49:50 AM2/15/03
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> Does anybody know about an online source where to download movie files
> of his freefall?

Right now it's a short clip in a nearly 50 meg video about StratoQuest
(Cheryl Stearns' attempt to break kittinger's record) at
http://www.skydivingmovies.com in the /from tv/ folder.
stratoquest.mpg (requires an mpeg2 codec which can be found in the
empgplay_115.zip file). I'm trying to extract that section for you
but it's not working well.

Dave
http://www.skydivingmovies.com

DAVID TYLER

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Feb 15, 2003, 3:50:38 AM2/15/03
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On 15/2/03 6:49, in article 23647d16.03021...@posting.google.com,
"pilotdave" <pilot...@yahoo.com> wrote:

This site seems to need a password.

Alex

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Feb 15, 2003, 9:27:02 AM2/15/03
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Use the username "anonymous" and use your email as the password. It
can get busy at times, so if you can't get on try later.

pilotdave

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Feb 15, 2003, 1:37:54 PM2/15/03
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> > Dave
> > http://www.skydivingmovies.com
>
> This site seems to need a password.

That just means the server is full (25 connections max right now). No
password is required normally.

Dave

Michael Farensen

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Feb 17, 2003, 3:45:43 AM2/17/03
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pilotdave wrote

[Kittinger jump in movie file]


> I'm trying to extract that section for you but it's not working
> well.

I'd be grateful for a short message if you should succeed; in that
case, please remove the SPAMBAIT from my address.

THX, Michael

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I AM NOT A NUMBER! I AM A FREE MAN!

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