World's Highest Jump Reference List


Basophobia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_falling

Visual Cliff Experiment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_cliff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6cqNhHrMJA

Air Travel vs. Car Travel:
https://traveltips.usatoday.com/air-travel-safer-car-travel-1581.html


How high can you fall without injury or death?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3212924/

Skier Survives 150 Foot Fall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW8CGUMJHgs

Mount Thor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Thor

Emperor Shun:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Shun
https://www.historylines.net/history/15th_cent/parachutes.html

Yuan Huangtou:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Huangtou
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-lifting_kite

Development of the Parachute:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute#Early_Renaissance

Louis-Sebastien Lenormand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Sebastien_Lenormand

Invention of the Hot Air Balloon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgolfier_brothers

Andre Garnerin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre-Jacques_Garnerin
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/monsieur-garnerin-drops

Balloon Jumping:
https://www.newenglandaviationhistory.com/jumping-from-a-balloon-in-the-19th-century/

Robert Cocking:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cocking

Balloon Altitude Progression:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_altitude_record#Balloons

The Death Zone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_zone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitude_sickness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_pulmonary_edema

The Stratosphere:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratosphere

The Armstrong Limit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_limit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebullism

Parachute Innovation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute#Eve_of_World_War_I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Broadwick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Broadwick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_L._Irvin

The Barnstormers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnstorming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6wwizIzkmY

Charles Lindbergh:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh
http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/jumps.asp

Randy Lovelace:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Lovelace_II
https://www.airforcemedicine.af.mil/News/Display/Article/1212332/dr-william-randolph-randy-lovelace-ii-first-leap-a-record/

Vasily Romanyuk:
https://www.rbth.com/sport/2015/10/24/into-the-great-wide-open-rusias-greatest-skydiving-records_533373

Nikolai Nikitin:
https://www.fai.org/record/11483

The Karman Line:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karman_line

Operation High Dive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_High_Dive
https://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675065028_dummy-descent_Holloman-Air-Force-Base_Operation-High-Dive_dummy-ejects

Project Manhigh:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Manhigh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swbUNYX_pO8

Joe Kittinger:
https://books.google.com/books/about/Come_Up_and_Get_Me.html?id=zvnSSGvYSEoC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger

Project Excelsior:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Excelsior
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbVQ33ujzFw

Yevgeni Andreyev:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeni_Nikolayevich_Andreyev

Pyotr Dolgov:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Dolgov

Nick Piantanida:
https://books.google.com/books/about/MAGNIFICENT_FAILURE.html?id=68JvDwAAQBAJ
http://www.espn.com/30for30/film/_/page/angrysky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Piantanida

Bill Weaver:
http://www.chuckyeager.org/news/sr-71-disintegrated-pilot-free-fell-space-lived-tell/

D.B. Cooper:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbUjuwhQPKs

Vensa Vulovic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87

Larry Walters:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawnchair_Larry_flight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7w_v9J7iOc

Nish Bruce:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nish_Bruce
https://www.theguardian.com/g2/story/0,3604,630819,00.html

Cheryl Stearns:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Stearns
https://web.archive.org/web/20020205022104/http://www.stratoquest.com/default.cfm?page=2
https://www.wired.com/2001/08/space-2/

Rodd Millner:
https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=81422&page=1
https://nypost.com/2001/03/05/space-cadet-plans-plunge-from-heavens/

Michel Fournier:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Fournier_(adventurer)
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/sports/othersports/24jump.html
https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a5777/sky-diving-record-attempt/

Felix Baumgartner:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_Stratos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvbN-cWe0A0

Alan Eustace:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Eustace
http://www.paragonsdc.com/stratex/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQiiyOR68nc

BU60-1, Highest Unmanned Balloon:
http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/special/2003/yamagami/03.shtml

The Mesosphere:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesosphere

What if you jumped from the International Space Station?
https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/universe/what-if-an-astronaut-skydives-space-jump-iss.html

SpaceShipTwo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipTwo
https://www.space.com/19021-spaceshiptwo.html