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  • In my ship, which I now called Skydiver, the drive would produce thirty gees at the safety limit.

    Crashlander Niven, Larry 1994

  • In my ship, which I now called Skydiver, the drive would produce thirty gees at the safety limit.

    Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1969

  • In my ship, which I now called Skydiver, the drive would produce thirty gees at the safety limit.

    Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1969

  • In my ship, which I now called Skydiver, the drive would produce thirty gees at the safety limit.

    Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1968

  • Skydiver preparing for 120,000-foot supersonic fall - CNN.com: An Austrian daredevil is planning to become the first person to break the sound barrier in a free fall, without riding in a vehicle.

    Archive 2010-05-23 Bill Crider 2010

  • I love my things (right near me are: a Klingon battle cruiser, a Space: 1999 Hawk warship, a UFO Skydiver model, Atragon, Mercury rocket parts, a basket starfish, two dozen animal skulls (inc. some replicas like a sabre tooth tiger), etc. etc.).

    Yes, we can frankwu 2008

  • It sounds like important SHADO vehicles like Skydiver will still be used, but no word yet on the iconic Interceptors or the SHADO ground APCs.

    UFO movie will now be first in a trilogy Adam Whitehead 2009

  • - Various Dinky (and other) Toys from Gerry Anderson productions: Eagle Transporters (2) (from Space: 1999); Thunderbird 3 from Thunderbirds; Straker's car, Skydiver submarine and UFO Interceptor (from UFO); Joe 90's car from Joe 90

    Waste-o-time-Meme No. 839: The Objects Around Us frankwu 2007

  • SHADO headquarters is located under a film studio near London, from where it organises the interception of alien spaceships using Interceptor craft based on the Moon and Skydiver, a submarine whose front section breaks off and turns into an atmospheric fighter aircraft.

    Gerry Anderson's UFO coming to the movies Adam Whitehead 2009

  • Skydiver, a possibly somewhat inefficient submarine-launched jet aircraft, but very modest by Anderson's normal standards of unnecessarily complicated vehicles.

    UFO movie will now be first in a trilogy Adam Whitehead 2009

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