Joe Kittinger's 102,800 ft record under threat

**Wing_Z** · February 8th, 2012, 00:07

Austrian daredevil Feliz Baumgartner announced on Tuesday he will make a record skydiving jump from a balloon 120,000 feet, or the edge of space

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16931190

**stiz** · February 8th, 2012, 00:44

wish him luck!! seeing red bull plastered all over the renders of the "basket" means they'll strap a shed load of HD cameras all over him!!

**Daveroo** · February 8th, 2012, 08:37

one word........... why?

**rvn817j** · February 8th, 2012, 08:39

I sat next to Joe K. at a dinner once upon a time and asked him if he was concerned about risking his life. I'm sure he had gotten this question numerous times before, but he still answered amiably. He said that he was an Air Force engineer at the time and all the folks working on that project spent a load of time mathematically analyzing the task (i.e., slide rules). In his mind he had no doubt that the experiment would be successful otherwise he would not have done it! I hope this 'new guy' is approaching it from the test pilot / engineer perspective and not the "daredevil" perspective!