The record-holder parachutist officer Kittinger died on the 95th year of life

At the age of 94 years the American officer Joseph Kittinger who throughout a long time held a record of a parachute jump from the biggest height died. About it reported in the departmental edition of the Pentagon of Stars and Stripes. It is specified that the colonel of the Air Force of United States of America in resignation Kittinger died in the morning on December 9. According to friends of the pilot, he suffered from lung cancer. In 1960 Kittinger established a jump record from the biggest height – 31 kilometers 300 meters. During flight which lasted 4 minutes and 36 seconds, it managed to gain speed in 988 kilometers per hour. In 2012 record...