http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=562
National Museum of the US Air Force
Excelsior Gondola
As new jet aircraft flew higher and faster in the 1950s, the USAF became increasingly concerned with the hazards faced by flight crews ejecting from high-performance aircraft. The emerging space age introduced the problem of how to provide astronauts with a safe method of escape while within the atmosphere. Without proper stabilization, a crewmember ejecting from an aerospace vehicle at high altitudes could enter a life-threatening flat spin of up to 200 rpm.
Project Excelsior, with then-Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger Jr. as test director, was established in 1958 to study and solve these high altitude escape problems. Mr. Francis Beaupre, a technician at Wright Field working on the Excelsior project, devised a parachute system that would safely enable pilots to eject from high altitudes. His system, the "Beaupre Multi-Stage Parachute," consisted of a stabilizer parachute that would prevent uncontrolled spinning and tumbling at high altitudes. A timing and altitude system automatically deployed both the stabilizing and main parachutes at the appropriate moments to ensure the safe and controlled descent of the pilot or astronaut.
As Project Excelsior did not have the resources to use high performance aircraft to test the new escape system, a balloon gondola was designed and built by the skilled staff at Wright Field to carry the pilot to the desired altitudes for the tests. The balloon held nearly 3 million cubic feet of helium to lift the open gondola high into the stratosphere. Capt. Kittinger made three high altitude parachute jumps from the gondola using the Beaupre-designed parachute system. On Nov. 16, 1959, Capt. Kittinger made the first jump from Excelsior I at an altitude of 76,400 feet. During Excelsior II, the second test on Dec. 11, 1959, Capt. Kittinger jumped from an altitude of 74,700 feet. On the third and last jump in Excelsior III on Aug. 16, 1960, Capt. Kittinger jumped from a height of 102,800 feet, almost 20 miles above the earth. With only the small stabilizing chute deployed, Capt. Kittinger fell for 4 minutes, 36 seconds. He experienced temperatures as low as minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit and a maximum speed of 614 miles per hour. The 28-foot main parachute did not open until Capt. Kittinger reached the much thicker atmosphere at 17,500 feet. Capt. Kittinger safely landed in the New Mexico desert after a 13 minute, 45 second descent. Project Excelsior successfully proved the new parachute system would solve the problem of high altitude escape by crewmen.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Thursday, June 07, 2007 posted by H.V.O.M at 8:07 PM
The U.S. military DD-214 form that I received from the official personnel records center contains a primary speciality number of 1189, which was created for this official federal undercover identity I am still using. Subtracting 59 from 1189 produces 1130, which is the billet number for a regular commissioned U.S. Navy officer with the U.S. Navy SEAL qualification.
12. Record Of Service
a. Date Entered AD This Period: 84 May 15
b. Separation Date This Period: 90 May 14
c. Net Active Service This Period: 06 years 00 months 00 days
d. Total Prior Active Service: 02 years 00 months 00 days
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 7 June 2007 excerpt ends]
From 5/1/1967 ( my first flight by myself as jet pilot and as active duty U.S. Naval Aviator and Astronaut ) to 7/27/1972 ( I was primary test pilot for the first flight of the F-15 Eagle fighter jet and for the F-15 Eagle fighter jet program ) is: 1914 days
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 10/11/1968 ( I was Apollo 7 spacecraft astronaut in orbit of planet Earth ) is: 1914 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-15_Eagle
27 July 1972
The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) F-15 Eagle is an all-weather tactical fighter designed to gain and maintain air superiority in aerial combat. It was developed for the U.S. Air Force, and first flew in July 1972. The F-15E Strike Eagle derivative is an all-weather strike fighter that entered service in 1989.
http://www.boeing.com/history/mdc/eagle.htm
F-15 Eagle Tactical Fighter
July 27, 1972
1980 film "The Final Countdown" DVD video:
Alert 1 - USS Nimitz CVN 68 US Navy F-14 Tomcat combat air patrol: [ radio transmission ] Eagle Control, this is Alert 1. They just strafed the hell out of that yacht!
Warren Lasky - United States Department of Defense civilian contractor employee from Tideman Industries: Why would they attack a yacht?
You are not going to get away with your complicity to murder and to domestic terrorism and international terrorism. Not on my watch. Too bad for you.
[ Ronald Moore & Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis-Nazi the cowardly International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States federal government actively instigate insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government with all Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis-Nazi & Ronald Moore staff partners contributors employees contractors lawyers managers of any capacity as severely treasonous criminal accomplices and that are active unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States that actively make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in the United States and in the Severely Treasonous and Criminally Rebellious State of Washington by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings ]
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0952778
IMDb
The Internet Movie Database
Dominic Zamprogna
Born: April 21, 1979
SGU Stargate Universe (TV series) 2009
Dr. Boone
Battlestar Galactica (TV series) 2004-2006
James 'Jammer' Lyman
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season3/galactica-302.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
3X02 - PRECIPICE
Original Airdate (SciFi): 06-OCT-2006
NCP formation.
Cavil, to Jammer: Here are the names of those to be arrested and sent to detention.
Jammer: I, uh -- I know some of these people.
Cavil: I'm sure you do. They're all insurgents, jammer. We have to break the cycle of violence.
Jammer, to group: Okay, suit up.
(They put on their balaclavas.)
Cavil, to group: You won't have to wear those much longer. Eventually your people will see you as heroes.
(He leaves, Jammer breathes deeply.)
Jammer: Not tonight. (To NCP group, in night vision.) Take numbers five through ten. Okay, take the tents to the right. Follow down to the end. Rest of you guys gotta keep quiet, okay?
NCP raids the town.
NCP Officer: This is New Caprica Police!
NCP Officer: You're under arrest for colluding with the insurgency.
NCP Officer: You're wanting for questioning in the graduation bomb.
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season3/galactica-304.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
3X04 - EXODUS (2)
Original Airdate (SciFi): 20-OCT-2006
Galactica CIC.
Kelly: Jump preparation complete. My board is green. Ready to jump, sir.
Helo: Stand by to launch blue squadron.
Adama: this is the Admiral. All hands, brace for turbulence.
Colonial One.
Three: Baseships just closed on the Battlestar targets. There's no Galactica, no Pegasus. Drones. Decoys. The whole thing's a trick.
Simon: Where's Galactica?
(Baltar stares.)
New Caprica battle.
Man: They've got us pinned down. We're trapped.
(Galactica falls into the atmosphere.)
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season3/galactica-303.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
3X03 - EXODUS (1)
Original Airdate (SciFi): 13-OCT-2006
Mathias: Be different when the balloon goes up. Explosions, shooting, chaos.
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2008_4513637
chron
Houston Chronicle Archives
POTPOURRI
From wire and Internet reports
Thu 02/14/2008
Houston Chronicle
Defense chief has arm crisis
As defense secretary, Robert Gates has been to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. But it was the path to his front door in Washington on Tuesday night that took him down, even if only momentarily. Falling victim to the hazardous ice sheen that coated much of the region on Tuesday, the former Texas A&M president slipped and fell hard
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season3/galactica-304.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
3X04 - EXODUS (2)
Original Airdate (SciFi): 20-OCT-2006
Kelly: Altitude 99,000, falling like a rock.
Helo: Launch! Launch them all!
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season3/galactica-304.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
3X04 - EXODUS (2)
Original Airdate (SciFi): 20-OCT-2006
Pegasus CIC.
Apollo: Set main batteries to autofire cycle-B. Lock engines ahead flank. [On comms.] This is the Commander. Abandon ship, abandon ship. All hands, abandon ship. Report to evac raptors and jump to rendezvous point. Good work, and I'll see you on the other side.
Dualla: Okay, all right, people, let's move! Out! Let's go! You too, Commander.
Apollo: Yes, sir. [Alone, addressing the ship] Thank you.
(Pegasus is destroyed, taking out not one but two basestars.)
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002331----000-.html
Cornell University Law School
LII / Legal Information Institute
U.S. Code
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 113B > § 2331
§ 2331. Definitions
As used in this chapter—
(1) the term “international terrorism” means activities that—
(A) involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended—
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C) occur primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, or transcend national boundaries in terms of the means by which they are accomplished, the persons they appear intended to intimidate or coerce, or the locale in which their perpetrators operate or seek asylum;
(2) the term “national of the United States” has the meaning given such term in section 101(a)(22) of the Immigration and Nationality Act;
(3) the term “person” means any individual or entity capable of holding a legal or beneficial interest in property;
(4) the term “act of war” means any act occurring in the course of—
(A) declared war;
(B) armed conflict, whether or not war has been declared, between two or more nations; or
(C) armed conflict between military forces of any origin; and
(5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that—
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended—
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season3/galactica-303.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
3X03 - EXODUS (1)
Original Airdate (SciFi): 13-OCT-2006
Insurgent bunker.
Chief: We've stored arms and munitions in key areas throughout the city.
Mathias: I can supplement that with mortars, RPGs, even a few shoulder-mounted anti-aircraft missiles aboard the Raptor.
Chief: Great. When we give the signal, our people are gonna attack the airbase, the detention center, the power station, other critical facilities. The plan is to sow as much chaos and confusion as possible the moment Galactica and Pegasus arrive. That should help cover the evacuation.
Mathias: No Pegasus. Just Galactica.
Roslin: Why? Why no Pegasus? What happened?
Mathias: Don't know, sir. Way beyond my pay grade. What about your evac plans?
Tory: We've designated and assigned 500 block captains to cover each sector of the city. Each block captain is responsible for rallying and guiding the people in his or her sector along their escape route to their designated ship.
Zarek: Don't suppose you've been able to rehearse any of this.
Roslin: Indeed. We've had three full-dress rehearsals under the guise of fire and natural disaster drills.
Mathias: Be different when the balloon goes up. Explosions, shooting, chaos. There's gonna be some panic out there.
Roslin: they'll do fine. These people know that at some point, they're gonna be responsible for saving themselves.
