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In the past 24 hours, someone changed Piantanida's marriage year to 1962, but the Life Magazine article and Ryan's book "The Pre-Astronauts" both indicate that Piantanida was married in 1963, (the Life article even gives the date as March 16, 1963). If other published sources say 1962, please bring them to our attention. Also, I've deleted Janice McDowell's middle name because in the past few days two different names have been used (Lynn and Louise), but without reference to a published source. If a verifiable published source is known, please insert a middle name and citation. -- 212.139.244.241 ( talk) 16:51, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
If you have personal knowledge of the subject, we'd be interested to know more and would be interested in helping to find published sources and citations for the correct information. -- 212.139.244.241 ( talk) 17:09, 24 October 2012 (UTC) Janice middle name is Louise she is my sister, her middle name is from our Aunt Louise 63.148.110.6 ( talk) 03:07, 27 August 2018 (UTC)Nancy McDowell Bonk
I recommend moving reference to Baumgartner flight to a footnote. For several reasons. First, this article is about Nick Piantanida, not about flight records. Second, the FAI absolute altitude record set in 1961 for balloon flight was not broken by either the Piantanida nor the Baumgartner flight. It requires that the balloonist descend to earth with the balloon and is still held by Malcolm Ross. In the case of Piantanida, the balloon was jettisoned at altitude to begin an emergency ascent, and in the case of Baumgartner, he abandoned the balloon at altitude to begin his record breaking drop. Catrachos ( talk) 05:40, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
I've removed "lack of oxygen" as cause of death in the data box. Although he did suffer a lack of oxygen at the time of the accident, which doctors thought would probably leave him brain damaged, Pianatida lived for months afterwards and was said to be breathing well the week after the accident. -- Blake the bookbinder ( talk) 10:14, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
I understand that Piantanida was once offered a contract with the New York Knicks to play professional basketball. Does anyone have a source, and if so, is that fact worth adding? 70.174.128.14 ( talk) 05:30, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
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In the past 24 hours, someone changed Piantanida's marriage year to 1962, but the Life Magazine article and Ryan's book "The Pre-Astronauts" both indicate that Piantanida was married in 1963, (the Life article even gives the date as March 16, 1963). If other published sources say 1962, please bring them to our attention. Also, I've deleted Janice McDowell's middle name because in the past few days two different names have been used (Lynn and Louise), but without reference to a published source. If a verifiable published source is known, please insert a middle name and citation. -- 212.139.244.241 ( talk) 16:51, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
If you have personal knowledge of the subject, we'd be interested to know more and would be interested in helping to find published sources and citations for the correct information. -- 212.139.244.241 ( talk) 17:09, 24 October 2012 (UTC) Janice middle name is Louise she is my sister, her middle name is from our Aunt Louise 63.148.110.6 ( talk) 03:07, 27 August 2018 (UTC)Nancy McDowell Bonk
I recommend moving reference to Baumgartner flight to a footnote. For several reasons. First, this article is about Nick Piantanida, not about flight records. Second, the FAI absolute altitude record set in 1961 for balloon flight was not broken by either the Piantanida nor the Baumgartner flight. It requires that the balloonist descend to earth with the balloon and is still held by Malcolm Ross. In the case of Piantanida, the balloon was jettisoned at altitude to begin an emergency ascent, and in the case of Baumgartner, he abandoned the balloon at altitude to begin his record breaking drop. Catrachos ( talk) 05:40, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
I've removed "lack of oxygen" as cause of death in the data box. Although he did suffer a lack of oxygen at the time of the accident, which doctors thought would probably leave him brain damaged, Pianatida lived for months afterwards and was said to be breathing well the week after the accident. -- Blake the bookbinder ( talk) 10:14, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
I understand that Piantanida was once offered a contract with the New York Knicks to play professional basketball. Does anyone have a source, and if so, is that fact worth adding? 70.174.128.14 ( talk) 05:30, 11 September 2015 (UTC)