Part I

. The Unstabilized Dummy Drops_, WADC Technical Report 57-477,

(Wright Patterson AFB, OH: Wright Air Development Center, Oct 1957) (hereafter _High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I_), 27, and 1st Lt. Raymond A. Madson, _High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, II. The Stabilized Dummy Drops_, WADC Technical Report 57-477 (II) (Wright Patterson AFB, OH: Aeronautical Systems Division, Air Force Systems Command, August 1961) (hereafter _High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops

## Part II_), 18.

[43] _High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I_, 1.

[44] _High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I_, and _High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part II_, and Holloman Air Development Center, Weekly Test Status Reports, Project MX-1450B (Manned Balloon), National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, MO, Accession No. 342-62A-A-641, box 115/248, folder; R-695-61D, “High Altitude Escape Studies, Gen B-1, Manned Balloon Flights.”

[45] ibid.

[46] _High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I_, 1, and _High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part II_, 18.

[47] Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., _The Long, Lonely Leap_, (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1961), and Lt. Col. David G. Simons, _Man High_, (New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960), and Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., “The Long, Lonely Leap,” _National Geographic_ 118, no. 6 (December 1960): 854-873, “Fantastic Catch in the Sky, Record Leap towards Earth,” _Life_ 49, no. 9 (August 29, 1960): 20–25, _Popular Mechanics Magazine_, January 1951: 118, _Collier’s_, June 25, 1954, _Time_, September 12, 1955, “The Fastest Man on Earth”.

[48] Don Reilly, “MAD Salutes an Unsung Hero,” _MAD_, no. 61, (March 1961), 46.

[49] _High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I_, and _High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part II_.

[50] _High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part II_, 11–12.

[51] Signed, sworn statement of Raymond A. Madson, Lt. Col., USAF (Ret) and _High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I_, 16.

[52] _High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I_, 5.

[53] _High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I_, 17.

[54] ibid., and Memorandum, subj: Balloon Tracking and Recovery Equipment, n.d., National Archives and Records Administration, Accession No. 342-67B-2133, box 65/249, file 2, “Biophysics Branch-Escape Section, High Altitude Escape Studies, 7218-71719,” and Robert Blankenship, retired Balloon Branch Recovery Supervisor, telephone interview with 1st Lt. James McAndrew, July 14, 1995.

[55] Signed, sworn statement of Raymond A. Madson, Lt. Col., USAF (Ret).

[56] Blankenship, and Balloon Tracking and Recovery Equipment, n.d., and Bernard D. Gildenberg, _Meteorological Aspects of Constant-Level Balloon Operations in the Southwestern United States_ (hereafter _Meteorological Aspects of Constant-Level Balloon Operations in the Southwestern United States_), AFCRL-66-706 (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, MA: Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, October 1966), 27.

[57] Historical Branch, Office of Information Services, Air Force Missile Development Center, _Contributions of Balloon Operations to Research and Development at the Air Force Missile Development Center Holloman AFB, N. Mex. 1947–1958_ (Holloman AFB, NM: Air Research and Development Command, 1958) (hereafter _Contributions of Balloon Operations to Research and Development at the Air Force Missile Development Center, 1947–1958_), 90.

[58] _High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I_, 16.

[59] ibid., 17.

[60] _High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I_, 17.

[61] Maj. John P. Stapp, _Human Tolerance to Linear Deceleration,

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