2:22 p.m.: According to the indicators provided by the Red Bull Stratos team, Baumgartner surpassed the speed of sound/Mach 1, but we’re still awaiting official confirmation.
They showed the airspeed indicator, source unknown, and it cleared around 723 mph.
This was pretty cool.
That’s movin’. When I first read about this plan (in Popular Science, some years ago by now) I thought it was completely nuts. The last US Air Force balloon jumper (the guy with the record, maybe the only survivor.
Boy, I hate watching the Lions, but it’s like a road accident, can’t stop myself. Pass plays from the ONE? Stupid tie game now. Idiotic. Oh, sorry, this paragraph is an irrelevant aside.