Replying to a message of Gary Wiltshire to Tony Ingenoso:

 GW> From: Gary Wiltshire 

 GW> Wasn't it an XB-70 testing failure that resulted in
 GW> the still-standing altitude record for a human surviving
 GW> a fall without an opened chute?

Testing failure?  If memory serves an idiot F-104 throttle-jockey in a
chase plane thought it'd be real neat to fly between the vertical
stabilizers of the XB-70, tried it, encountered turbulence (DUH!), collided
and totalled both aircraft.  I didn't know anyone got out of either plane.

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