{"id":2118,"date":"2022-12-15T15:28:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T14:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2023-01-16T11:13:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T10:13:46","slug":"disparition-de-joe-kittinger-un-heros-de-laviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/2022\/12\/15\/disparition-de-joe-kittinger-un-heros-de-laviation\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf0 Disparition de Joe kittinger : un h\u00e9ros de l\u2019aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 <strong>Disparition de Joe kittinger : un h\u00e9ros de l\u2019aviation\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parmi les l\u00e9gendes dans le monde des ballons, le colonel am\u00e9ricain Joseph William Kittinger dit Joe (1928-2022) est au sommet. Il vient de dispara\u00eetre \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 94 ans. Cet ancien militaire, pilote de l\u2019US Air Force est connu pour avoir \u00e9tabli un record du plus haut saut en parachute qu\u2019il a conserv\u00e9 durant 52 ans. Un saut qu\u2019il a effectu\u00e9 depuis un ballon \u00e0 gaz, emportant dans le m\u00eame temps le record d\u2019altitude en ballon. Il faut se souvenir que son premier saut en novembre 1959 s\u2019\u00e9tait effectu\u00e9 \u00e0 23.287 m\u00e8tres. Et que c\u2019est gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 l\u2019ouverture automatique de son parachute qu\u2019il a d\u00fb la vie sauve.&nbsp; Son deuxi\u00e8me saut fut plus modeste et c\u2019est lors du 3\u00e8 qu\u2019il r\u00e9ussit \u00e0 \u00e9tablir 4 records du monde :&nbsp; la plus haute ascension en ballon, le saut en parachute le plus haut, la plus longue chute libre et la plus grande vitesse atteinte par un \u00eatre humain dans l&rsquo;atmosph\u00e8re. La plupart de ces records ne seront battus que 52 ans plus tard par F\u00e9lix Baumgartner avec un saut \u00e0 39 045 m\u00e8tres d&rsquo;altitude le 14 octobre 2012. On dit m\u00eame que lors de ce dernier saut, il aurait franchi le mur du son. Au nombre de ses exploits on peut citer en septembre 1984 la premi\u00e8re travers\u00e9e de l\u2019Atlantique en ballon \u00e0 gaz. Une l\u00e9gende vient de dispara\u00eetre.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 <strong>Passing of Joe Kittinger: an aviation hero\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the legends in the world of balloons, the American colonel Joseph William Kittinger known as Joe (1928-2022) is at the top. He has just passed away at the age of 94. This former military pilot of the US Air Force is known for having established a record for the highest parachute jump that he kept for 52 years. He jumped from a gas balloon and at the same time set the record for the highest altitude in a balloon. We must remember that his first jump in November 1959 was made at 23,287 meters. And that it is thanks to the automatic opening of his parachute that he had to save his life.&nbsp; His second jump was more modest and it was during the third one that he succeeded in establishing 4 world records: the highest ascent in a balloon, the highest parachute jump, the longest free fall and the highest speed reached by a human being in the atmosphere. Most of these records will only be broken 52 years later by Felix Baumgartner with a jump to 39,045 meters on October 14, 2012. It is even said that during this last jump, he broke the sound barrier. Among his exploits we can mention the first crossing of the Atlantic in a gas balloon in September 1984. A legend has just passed away.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 Disparition de Joe kittinger : un h\u00e9ros de l\u2019aviation\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Parmi les l\u00e9gendes dans le monde des ballons, le colonel am\u00e9ricain Joseph William Kittinger dit Joe (1928-2022) est au sommet. Il vient de dispara\u00eetre \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 94 ans. Cet ancien militaire, pilote de l\u2019US Air Force est connu pour avoir \u00e9tabli un record du [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2606,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions\/2606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilatre-de-rozier.com\/pbp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}