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One of the most spectacular parachute jumps occurred when Joseph

Kittinger, a US Air Force pilot and offi cer, parachuted from a height of 31.3

kilometres on 16 August 1960. Wearing a specially designed pressure suit,

he was transported up through the atmosphere in the open gondola of the

balloon Excelsior III, taking 1 hour and 31 minutes to reach the balloon’s

maximum altitude. Here, where the temperature was minus 70° Celsius, he

waited 12 minutes before jumping out into space. After a 13-second freefall,

his drogue chute was released. Its diameter was 1.8 metres and it stabilised

his fall to keep him from entering into an uncontrollable spin. After another

4 minutes and 36 seconds of falling at speeds of up to 988 kilometres an

hour, his main chute opened at a height of 5.3 kilometres, bringing him

safely down to earth. Joseph Kittinger still holds the record for the highest

parachute jump and the longest freefall anyone has ever experienced.

Bonus info!

Name: Svenja Zander

Age: 24 years

Position: Trainee at DSV Houston, Texas, for 18 months. Works for Ocean Imports.

Before starting to work for DSV, she became a qualifi ed shipping agent via two other

transport companies.

Leisure interests: Parachuting, kickboxing, country and western music and dancing.

Travels around the US together with other seconded DSV co-workers from Europe.

Her next destination is a trip to Las Vegas with DSV colleagues.

Previous employment: DSV Bremen, Germany, where she is seconded from the

Ocean Imports department.

Svenja Zander would have preferred to

return to the drop zone on the back seat of

the twin-engine Twin Otter which was now

in the process of elevating her and her new

American friends into the troposphere above

Houston. Her heart was pounding and cold

sweat was trickling out from underneath her

protective suit and helmet – and not least

under the parachute attached to the back

of this 24-year-old woman. But there was

no turning back. The turboprop plane’s door

opened and everything in her was resisting

this crazy act of jumping out of a perfectly

operating aircraft four kilometres in the air.

One by one her smiling friends jumped out

the door, and when it was Svenja’s turn, she

cast her fate to the wind and experienced the

rush of a lifetime.

“It was fantastic. After I landed, all I could

think about was going back up and trying

it again!” says Svenja Zander who has now

completed more than forty jumps since the

fi rst back in May 2009.

Enjoying the moment

Today Svenja is still high from skydiving

– she jumps to live life to its fullest. Her

nervousness has been replaced by enjoying

the state she is in as she rushes through the

air in a 200 km/h freefall. The experience

is so intense that anything but enjoying the

moment is impossible. And when she makes

loops and skydives with a group of friends

from a drop zone, she is happy:

“We’re like one big family. Like a football team

where everyone is there to help one another

and check one another’s equipment. I love

going to the drop zone to meet my friends

and plan our next jump,” she says.

Shaking it off

Svenja is not afraid of having an accident. The

worst injury she knows of was when one of

her friends broke a leg after an unfortunate

landing. The “only” incident Svenja has

experienced was when her main chute failed

to open properly. The problem was resolved

at 3,000 feet and the chute opened, but

Svenja landed hard, without getting injured

though.

“I was quite nervous, so I hurried back to the

plane and took an extra jump to shake off the

bad experience,” says the indomitable DSV

trainee from Houston.

Jump

for your life!

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