or Lt. Col. John P. Stapp?
Posted on 10/14/2012 9:06:00 AM PDT by redreno
Watching a guy jump. Should break the sound barrier.
(Excerpt) Read more at redbullstratos.com ...
They are saying the prior jumper had a tear in the glove and that affected things...his hands welled to twice the size of the normal hand...from 102,000 - he also chocked for a while as he came down. They never figured why but suspected a tie down from the pressure suit.
Now at 103,500 feet
1:49 time elapsed
ascending faster that 1000 feet per minutes
ping
/johnny
It will take him just 40 seconds to go from zero to 700mph and break the sound barrier at an altitude of around 100,000
108,000 feet at 1:55:56
I wonder when he will start to notice the drop in altitude visually...
Does that mean that if he yells "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" we won't hear him right away?
Reaching the two-hour mark - at about 110K feet. Few more and he’ll have the record.
But once he has gone supersonic, travelling at the speed of a bullet, the air resistance will start to pick up as the atmosphere becomes more dense and he can move himself into the more stable ‘delta’ position - arms and legs spread out, body parallel to the ground - that you normally see being used by skydivers.
Assuming he makes it through intact, Baumgartner, his spacesuit fitted with cameras recording his stomach-churning descent, will freefall for some five-and-a-half minutes before pulling his main parachute at 5,000ft.
Some ten to 15 minutes later, with luck he will touch down near Roswell.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217412/Felix-Baumgartner-Supersonic-skydiver-begins-set-drop-120-000-feet.html#ixzz29IND0oEm
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He can congratulate himself for the successful jump and when he lands take off his helmet and hear himself say, “Let me be the first to congratulate you on a successfully slow landing.”
More than two hours in ascent
112,155 feet
But once he has gone supersonic, travelling at the speed of a bullet, the air resistance will start to pick up as the atmosphere becomes more dense and he can move himself into the more stable ‘delta’ position - arms and legs spread out, body parallel to the ground - that you normally see being used by skydivers.
Assuming he makes it through intact, Baumgartner, his spacesuit fitted with cameras recording his stomach-churning descent, will freefall for some five-and-a-half minutes before pulling his main parachute at 5,000ft.
Some ten to 15 minutes later, with luck he will touch down near Roswell.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217412/Felix-Baumgartner-Supersonic-skydiver-begins-set-drop-120-000-feet.html#ixzz29IND0oEm
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I think they said he had a leaky glove, so wasn’t under intended pressure for part of the fall.
Old saying:
It’s not the fall which kills you; it’s the sudden stop.
(Though, in this case, it might be the fall.)
He’s going to yell “Geronimo,” not “Ahhhhhhh!”
World Record highest manned balloon flight at 115,000 plus
40 miles from Roswell on the ground
I hope the visor heater problem does not stop the jump
“Geronimo” is the accepted term for this event.
I am glad RED BULL is sponsoring this....if our current gov’t were involved it would never happen!
I really hope he makes it and I am very nervous!
That’s racist.../s off
And he has passed that altitude now.
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