How to Cure Yourself of Height Panic

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In the middle of this effort to go and fly around the world in the Voyager aircraft you're getting another little aircraft. So maybe that's what you were scared of but you get up on this flight and all of a sudden you get this Well height panic. The first thing you do with this is identify One part of your body and you concentrate on it totally on that particular thing And I chose my right elbow Because it was shaking and I concentrate as much as I can. After 20 minutes I could get that one elbow to stop to stop shakingI said, well, we're gonna try the other elbow so as soon as I would go to work on the other elbow the first one would start

Retired United States Air Force officer and fighter pilot, test pilot, and record-breaking aviator who in 1986 piloted the Voyager aircraft on the first non-stop, non-refueled around-the-world flight with co-pilot Jeana Yeager. He was born in Loma Linda, California, where he gained an interest in flying at a young age. He is the older brother of famed aerospace designer Burt Rutan, whose many earlier original designs Dick piloted on class record-breaking flights, including Voyager.

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