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Nicholas John
Piantanida (August 15, 1932 –
August 29, 1966) was an
American amateur parachute jumper who
reached 123,500 feet (37,600 meters; 23.39 miles)...
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Piantanida is an
Italian surname.
Notable people with the
surname include:
Giorgio Piantanida (born 1967),
Italian alpine skier Nick
Piantanida (1932–1966)...
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Giorgio Piantanida (born 15
September 1967 in
Busto Arsizio) is a
retired Italian alpine skier. fis-ski.com
Giorgio Piantanida at eWRC-results.com Giorgio...
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attempt Piantanida's face mask had depressurized. His
ground controllers immediately jettisoned the
balloon at
close to 56,000 feet (17,000 m).
Piantanida barely...
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looking "redgreen" or "yellowblue". In 1983,
Hewitt D.
Crane and
Thomas P.
Piantanida performed tests using an eye-tracker
device that had a
field of a vertical...
- drowned. 1966-02-02: 37.6 km (123,000 ft);
Amateur parachutist Nicholas Piantanida of the
United States with his "Project Strato-Jump" II balloon. Because...
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Nicholas Piantanida,
while attempting to set a new
skydiving jump record, is
claimed to have
reached 123,800 feet (37.73 km) on 2
February 1966.
Piantanida was...
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Andreyev Felix Baumgartner Charles "Nish"
Bruce Joseph Kittinger Nick
Piantanida Cheryl Stearns Steve Truglia Olav
Zipser Victor Prather "StratEx". Paragon...
- who has been
working on a 25-mile (40 km) jump for
several years Nick
Piantanida — flew
highest balloon flight prior to Baumgartner: 123,500-foot (37,600 m)...
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manned balloon flight of 37,640 m (123,491 ft)
previously set by Nick
Piantanida. He also
broke the
record for the highest-altitude jump, set in 1960 by...
