HALO jumping in the movie?

What I mean is, does anybody believe that what Kirk, Sulu, and Olsen did in the film was a HALO jump? Or am I reading into this too much?

(FYI, HALO means High Altitude-Low Opening-here's an article on the maneuver: HALO jump)

 

Well, it looks like a HALO jump is still done within the atmosphere (obviously, I suppose since it's not like we go out of the atmosphere all that frequently), but the jump in the movie began outside Vulcan's atmosphere.

 

Ahh, Olsen. The first redshirt, not to be the last...

 

no oleson wasn't doing a halo jump..he was doing a stupid jump.

 

Looking at the link provided the more correct term would be HAHO jump.

How about NSHO, Near Space High Opening (20-100 Km)

 

VHALO, VHALO
nero's coming and i want to jump home..

 

...and making all Brits look bad. Twat.

 

I am ashamed to say i didnt even realize he was a "Red Shirt" until someone on the Trekbbs pointed it out. I am ashamed!

Was this the first time we ever saw such a jump in Star Trek? I don't remember it being done before, but in all honesty, i dont remember a whole lot of DS9 and had given up on Enterprise during the second season.

M'Sharak, holy crap! I just checked the link and see that a HALO jump is REAL!!
WHOA!

 

The deleted opening scene of Generations was to feature a jump like this with Kirk, Scotty, and Chekov. Also, on an ep of Voyager (don't remember which), Torres performed such a jump on the holodeck, with the safetys turned off no less.

 

I knew i had seen kirk doing that type of jump before in a movie but for the life of me i could not pinpoint which one, no wonder, it was a deleted scene......Thanks, that's one less annoying unknown movie scene or music tune floating about in my head trying to figure out what they are.

 

I didn't even know what a HALO jump was until I read this thread.

See? You learn something new every day.

As for Olsen, well, I have a feeling Olsen would have died trying to make popcorn somewhere down the line.

 

To be fair, he was the technical redshirt in that scene. I guess it didn't help he came off sounding like the M.P. for Epic Fail North.

 

Kinda funny that we can count him as Kirk's first Redshirt death. Shall we start the running tally now?

 

Redshirts: 1

Kirk's Dignity: 0

 

Yeah, I've watched documentaries on soldiers training for HALO jumps, it's awesome stuff.

 

I like both of those.

 

I like your thinking.

I guess it depends on the high he was dropped, and weather or not High/Low opening refers to altitude or target.

We'll have to wait awhile before the military starts designating this stuff though

Edit: Low earth orbit(LEO or LVO as it would be) seems to be a very good ballpark range - LEO