Felix Baumgartner's supersonic freefall

[arrowmaker]

After flying to an altitude of 39,045 meters (128,100 feet) in a helium-filled balloon, Felix Baumgartner completed a record breaking jump for the ages from the edge of space, exactly 65 years after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier flying in an experimental rocket-powered airplane. Felix reached a maximum of speed of 1,342.8 km/h (833mph) through the near vacuum of the stratosphere before being slowed by the atmosphere later during his 4:20 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHtvDA0W34I#)minute long freefall. The 43-year-old Austrian skydiving expert also broke two other world records (highest freefall, highest manned balloon flight), leaving the one for the longest freefall to project mentor Col. Joe Kittinger.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHtvDA0W34I

[roger-wilco-66]

Awesome stuff.
Nice to see that Kittinger is part of the project team.

Cheers,
Mark

[hey_moe]

WOW! Now this is something.:applause: The fall would have killed me :blind: ...lol.

[Sascha66]

I hope they manage to recover that balloon and put it in a museum!

Looks like the skydiver got into an uncontrolled and extreme tumble - very fast through all axes - sometime into the jump (1:07) which is the nightmare of all skydivers - thank god he managed to recover and wasn't injured:salute::salute::salute:

[IFlySWA]

Felix wasn't alone. :icon_lol:
http://cheezburger.com/6674303488

Brian