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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.

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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 incident.^[1]

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• History of Research in Space Biology and Biodynamics - Part IV
• Anthropomorphic dummy balloon drop test

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