April 12, 2024
Hand-Signed 8x10 photo of Joe Kittinger II Record Sky Diver POW Balloonist
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Beautiful hand-signed 8x10 photo (Shows him jumping from an altitude of over 19 miles!!) of a REAL AMERICAN HERO Col. Joe Kittinger!!! Signature is bold and huge (NOT PERSONALIZED!!!) Here some background information from WIKIPEDIA: Joe Kittinger is a former USAF Command Pilot ,career military officer and retired Colonel inthe United States Air Force . He is most famous for his participation in Project Manhigh and Project Excelsior in 1960, setting the record longest skydive from a height greater than 19 miles. He was also the first man to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a gas balloon and the first man to witness the curvature of the Earth. Serving as a fighter pilot during the Vietnam War , he achieved an aerial kill of a North Vietnamese jet fighter and was later shot down himself, spending 11 months as a prisoner of war in a North Vietnamese prison. In 2012, at the age of 84, he participated in the Red Bull Stratos project as capsule communicator , directing Felix Baumgartner on his record-breaking 39-kilometer (24 mi) freefall from Earth's stratosphere .
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