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tr027
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With this someone could break the record for both highest skydive and highest base jump:
http://www.cnn.com/....elevator/index.html
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/10/02/space.elevator/index.html
RiggerLee
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Now you know the bitch of the thing is you could only jump from part way up. In the upper section centrifical force is stronger then gravity and it would just throw you into orbit if you steped off.

Lee
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RiggerLee wrote:
Now you know the bitch of the thing is you could only jump from part way up. In the upper section centrifical force is stronger then gravity and it would just throw you into orbit if you steped off.

Lee
you could go farther is a w/s
RiggerLee
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Like the X planes and some of there predisesors you'll need dual controles. Reaction jets for the orbital phase of your flight and specal high temp wing and leading edge fabric for the reentery. You might have to have a helmit made of ablative matereal. You'll need it on the leading edge too. Maybe EG could build it for you.

Lee
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For the X-15 and suborbital planes, we call the controls all over the plane in orbit "puffers", which release gas to maintain an orientation. Heating problems can be averted with technologies such as http://www.psicorp.com/...sitestructures.shtml

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