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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant
Damn, I knew it, thats not what the MFF committee told us!!! No one told us our lungs might collapse!!!!  
Sad part is one million readers will be thinking that is true....
"They fell at speeds reaching 140mph, hurtling past the highest ridges of the snow-laden Himalayas, before each released a parachute, made three times the size of a normal canopy to cope with the thin air. The jumpers wore oxygen masks to prevent their lungs from collapsing as they fell. Wearing neoprene underwear was compulsory — to prevent them from being frozen to death."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4886596.ece |
Perhaps a bit higher and they might have exploded!
So much for the credibility of the press.
Still in all, a pricey nonmilitary jump that made a record of sorts; with 30 more to follow.
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