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Come Up and Get Me - An Autobiography of Colonel Joe Kittinger (Paperback)
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A few years after his release from a North Vietnamese
prisoner-of-war camp in 1973, Colonel Joseph Kittinger retired from
the Air Force. Restless and unchallenged, he turned to ballooning,
a lifelong passion as well as a constant diversion for his
imagination during his imprisonment. His primary goal was a
solitary circumnavigation of the globe, and in its pursuit he set
several ballooning distance records, including the first solo
crossing of the Atlantic in 1984. But the aeronautical feats that
first made him an American hero had occurred a quarter of a century
earlier. By the time Kittinger was shot down in Vietnam in 1972,
his Air Force career was already legendary. He had made a name for
himself at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico, as
a test pilot who helped demonstrate that egress survival for pilots
at high altitudes was possible in emergency situations. Ironically,
Kittinger and his pre-astronaut colleagues would help propel
Americans into space using the world's oldest flying machine--the
balloon. Kittinger's work on Project Excelsior--which involved
daring high-altitude bailout tests--earned him the Distinguished
Flying Cross long before he earned a collection of medals in
Vietnam. Despite the many accolades, Kittinger's proudest moment
remains his free fall from 102,800 feet during which he achieved a
speed of 614 miles per hour. > In this long-awaited
autobiography, Kittinger joins author Craig Ryan to document an
astonishing career. Selected by Popular Mechanics as a Top Book of
2010
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