Operation High Dive
This article is about the United States Air Force Operation. For the Thunderbirds episode with a similar name, see Operation Crash-Dive.
Operation High Dive (also known as Project High Dive) was a secret project carried out during the 1950s by the United States Air Force. It tested high-altitude parachutes using anthropomorphic dummies. The dummies went into a 200 rpm flat spin, which would be fatal to a human. Further investigations on this led to Project Excelsior. It may later have been confused with Project Mogul and thus helped form the account of the Roswell UFO Incident.
External links
- History of Research in Space Biology and Biodynamics - Part IV
- Anthropomorphic dummy balloon drop test
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