Captain Joe Kittinger

Afternoon Play: The Man Who Jumped To Earth

Thursday 11th of November 2.15pm Radio 4

  Quote

The real life story of Captain Joe Kittinger and Project Excelsior. As jet planes flew higher and faster in the 1950s, the USAF became increasingly worried about the safety of flight crew who had to eject at high altitude. So Project Excelsior was initiated to perfect a parachute system that would allow a safe, controlled descent after a high-altitude ejection.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vrxk5

greater than jazz

and this Radio 4 program is linked to BoC how?

  On 11/7/2010 at 6:48 PM, sirch said:

and this Radio 4 program is linked to BoC how?

Isn't he the guy in the first part of the Dayvan Cowboy vid?

  On 11/7/2010 at 6:48 PM, sirch said:

and this Radio 4 program is linked to BoC how?

noob

  On 11/7/2010 at 7:50 PM, kaini said:

  On 11/7/2010 at 6:48 PM, sirch said:

and this Radio 4 program is linked to BoC how?

 

noob

sorry, Daddy kaini, i know you live here 'n that, but.. *shrug*

perhaps you could explain the link to BoC for us as you seem to know everything about everything and name yourself after a BoC track.. cheers! :)

btw, if it's got anything to do with 'Dayvan Cowboy' era Boards then i won't know anything about it. cos that's around the time that they lost their touch and went shit, imo.

i've stopped caring about them since.

  On 11/7/2010 at 8:17 PM, sirch said:

  On 11/7/2010 at 7:50 PM, kaini said:

  On 11/7/2010 at 6:48 PM, sirch said:

and this Radio 4 program is linked to BoC how?

 

noob

 

sorry, Daddy kaini, i know you live here 'n that, but.. *shrug*

perhaps you could explain the link to BoC for us as you seem to know everything about everything and name yourself after a BoC track.. cheers! :)

it was explained in the post above my one. and i think you might be taking watmm a bit too seriously. you're very easily offended.

  On 11/7/2010 at 8:48 PM, kaini said:

it was explained in the post above my one. and i think you might be taking watmm a bit too seriously. you're very easily offended.

ah right, cool.. ta

and no, i'm not taking watmm too seriously.. if i took it that seriously i'd have a subscription and be on here 24/7.

kittinger footage is awesome and everything but a radio play about kittinger? nah.

  On 11/7/2010 at 8:20 PM, sirch said:

btw, if it's got anything to do with 'Dayvan Cowboy' era Boards then i won't know anything about it. cos that's around the time that they lost their touch and went shit, imo.

i've stopped caring about them since.

Yeah, nice get out clause

  On 11/8/2010 at 4:50 PM, keltoi said:

kittinger footage is awesome and everything but a radio play about kittinger? nah.

yeah that's what i was thinking. my Dad listens to Radio 4! maybe when i'm in my 60's i will too..

  On 11/8/2010 at 5:06 PM, mcbpete said:

  On 11/7/2010 at 8:20 PM, sirch said:

btw, if it's got anything to do with 'Dayvan Cowboy' era Boards then i won't know anything about it. cos that's around the time that they lost their touch and went shit, imo.

i've stopped caring about them since.

Yeah, nice get out clause

lol, well, it's true. it's been a long, long time since BoC have done anything as good as their A Beautiful Place/ Geogaddi days, imo.

but if they brought out a new album tomorrow then sure i'd listen to it and see what it was like. i wouldn't be into it straight away tho just cos it's BoC!, y'know.. it might be pants.. like Campfire was. but if it's good it's good and i might start caring about them again. :)

gonna give this a listen. just read a bit about Felix Baumgartner who is attempting to break his record and the sound barrier during freefall

Does anyone have the actual footage of this that isn't Dayvan Cowboy

I apologize if it's already been posted, I didn't search or anything.

  On 11/12/2010 at 11:24 PM, Spittal said:

Does anyone have the actual footage of this that isn't Dayvan Cowboy

 

I apologize if it's already been posted, I didn't search or anything.

i'm sure there was a dedicated thread to this but i can't find it. anyway here is a live-feed of the jump due to take place in about 3 hours

http://www.youtube.com/user/redbull/stratos

*due to take place very shortly

  On 11/13/2010 at 3:47 AM, extherium said:

  On 11/12/2010 at 11:24 PM, Spittal said:

Does anyone have the actual footage of this that isn't Dayvan Cowboy

 

I apologize if it's already been posted, I didn't search or anything.

 

I'd no idea how amazing this really was by simply watching the Dayvan vid. Thanks for posting!

Added to the BoC channel on Youtube(?) http://www.youtube.com/user/boardsofcanada?feature=g-all-a

Dayvan Cowboy, Felix Baumgartner footage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk

héhé

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk