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January 30, 2015
HALO
"If you're in a car driving down the road and you close your eyes, you have no idea what your speed is. It's the same thing if you're free falling from space. There are no signposts. You know you are going very fast, but you don't feel it. You don't have a 614-mph wind blowing on you. I could only hear myself breathing in the helmet." - Colonel Kittinger High Altitude Low Opening | Huckberry
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you'll know how fast you were going if your chute doesn't open in time.
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at January 30, 2015 2:23 PM
I've owned cars where if you closed your eyes you would have a pretty good idea of what your speed was. A '37 Plymouth sedan I drove in the early '50s, with a missing right front door window and no floor mats, comes immediately to mind. (For you youngsters, all cars of that era came with real rubber floor mats that lasted about 10,000 miles.)
Posted by: BillH at January 30, 2015 2:36 PM
Yeah Bill, my '38 Chevy coupe the same. Battery under the floor covering on passenger side, hand choke, starter button on the floor next to the gas pedal, got good at combining the start with give 'er a little gas. Trunk big enough to carry railroad ties. I miss that one more than all the rest of other the cars I owned.
Posted by: chasmatic at January 31, 2015 10:53 PM