It's #August and #StratoCat remarks important events and dates of #scientific ballooning history that occurred this month
. Remembering Cecil Powell, Jacques #Montgolfier and André-Jacques #Garnerin
. Project Hang Glide sets new record
. Kittinger jump for program #Excelsior
. 2nd flight of #MANHIGH project
. 1st. flight of a hydrogen balloon over Paris
. Double Eagle II successfully crosses the Atlantic
. First #balloon flight above Canada
...and much more
"THE BALLOON PILOTS WHO WENT BOLDLY WHERE ONLY ANIMALS HAD GONE BEFORE"
Project Manhigh took pilots to the edge of space.
An outstanding article By David W. Temple featured in History Net the website of Aviation History Magazine
https://www.historynet.com/project-manhigh/
#Balloon #Research #History #Manhigh #Winzen #Simons #Kittinger #McClure #Stapp #Holloman #Stratosphere
The last place one would expect to find a recreation of the 2nd #balloon flight of the #Manhigh project is in a series about two researchers of human sexuality.
And yet that happened on the 12th episode of the 1st season of Masters of Sex.
As a matter of fact, the events portrayed in the episode around a presentation of Dr. Masters at Washington Univ. was held on August 19, 1957 the same day on which Major #Simons began his flight from the bottom of an iron mine pit near #Crosby, Minnesota.
