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Skydiver preparing for 120,000-foot supersonic fall
CNN ^ | May 21, 2010 | Dugald McConnell and Brian Todd

Posted on 05/22/2010 7:02:04 PM PDT by Malone LaVeigh

An Austrian daredevil is planning to become the first person to break the sound barrier in a free fall, without riding in a vehicle.

This summer in New Mexico, Felix Baumgartner hopes to make the highest, longest and fastest fall ever.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: felixbaumgartner; skydiver; spacediving; spacejump
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To: Malone LaVeigh
Since breaking the speed of sound depends on the air density one is passing though, at what point will the break the sound barrier?

Sea level ???

21 posted on 05/22/2010 7:35:11 PM PDT by Popman (Balsa wood: Obama Presidential timber)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

They don’t make an airplane big enough to hold all the people it would take to throw me out of it.


22 posted on 05/22/2010 7:35:56 PM PDT by umgud (Obama is a failed experiment.)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

This should be sponsored by Depends.


23 posted on 05/22/2010 7:36:05 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Popman
Sea level ???

Hopefully before ground level.

24 posted on 05/22/2010 7:38:42 PM PDT by 11Bush
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To: WOBBLY BOB
After the impact , its gonna take more than 6 million bucks to rebuild him.
25 posted on 05/22/2010 7:40:44 PM PDT by Redcitizen (Tagline out- use detour)
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To: Malone LaVeigh; All
Watch out for that first step! It's a doozy!


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

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26 posted on 05/22/2010 7:41:56 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: The Comedian; cripplecreek; Boiling point

Joseph Kittinger at the start of his record-setting jump during Project Excelsior, August 16 1960.

27 posted on 05/22/2010 7:49:32 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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To: Popman
By the time he reaches the lower atmosphere, around a few thousand feet, he will not be travelling much more than 300 MPH -- if his chute does not open. He will probably need a breaking chute in order to get down to 110 MPH for the main chute not to tear parts of his body off, or shred.

He must break the sound barrier while his terminal velocity is over about 670 mph (at higher altitude the speed of sound decreases.) This suggests he must break the speed of sound somewhere near Kittinger's record, which would be somewhere around 90,000 feet.

28 posted on 05/22/2010 7:52:40 PM PDT by FredZarguna ("Thomas Jefferson still survives.")
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To: Malone LaVeigh

I don’t a human body could break the sound barrier because its not aerodynamic enough to do it any more than the P51 mustang could break the sound barrier.

The P51 was just Not designed to do it.The only way aircraft can di it is with swept back wings.

No Matter his jumping altitude he will never break the sound barrier.


29 posted on 05/22/2010 7:56:22 PM PDT by puppypusher
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To: vwbug
"If you break wind at the same time you break the sound barrier, do you hear it? It’s another tree in the forest question."

Is it even humanly possible to break wind in such a scenario given what must be an extremely high 'Pucker Factor' situation.
30 posted on 05/22/2010 8:01:05 PM PDT by ThomasSawyer (Democratic Underground: Proof that anyone can figure out how to use a computer.)
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To: puppypusher

I don’t Think a human body could break the sound barrier because its not aerodynamic enough to do it any more than the P51 mustang could break the sound barrier.

The P51 was just Not designed to do it.The only way aircraft can do it is with swept back wings.

No Matter his jumping altitude he will never break the sound barrier.

Pardon the spelling errors in my previous entry.


31 posted on 05/22/2010 8:02:05 PM PDT by puppypusher
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To: Boiling point; Squantos

Kittinger and Baumgartner are partnering in this venture, sponsored by Red Bull. I saw them on TV together, doing a joint interview. Baumgartner is giving total “you the man” props to Kittinger, and Kittinger is thrilled to be back in the limelight. BOth seem like classy guys with big nads.


32 posted on 05/22/2010 8:04:54 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: atomic conspiracy; cripplecreek

See above.


33 posted on 05/22/2010 8:05:53 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Travis McGee
BOth seem like classy guys with big nads.

It's not the size of their nads I wonder about. It's the size of their brains.

34 posted on 05/22/2010 8:06:48 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

I wish him good luck.


35 posted on 05/22/2010 8:08:09 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The US will not die with a whimper. It will die with thundering applause from the left.)
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To: Lurker

They both seem pretty smart to me, but.....

Baumgartner does all kind of crazy BASE jumping. He’s also flown a backpack jet. The kind with a tiny delta wing, where you bail out of a plane and zoom through the mountain passes.


36 posted on 05/22/2010 8:08:39 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Lurker

Without guys like them, there would be very little advancement in aerospace. Yeager strapped himself to a bomb to break the sound barrier, and did it for a soldiers pay. These guys are amazing!


37 posted on 05/22/2010 8:11:34 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (END THE WAR ON LIBERTY!)
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To: Travis McGee
Like I said. While I'm very glad the human race produces such people, and I'm even more glad that the US seems to have most of them, I wonder about their sanity.

LOL.

38 posted on 05/22/2010 8:12:01 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

He’ll need to wear a Pickelhaube.


39 posted on 05/22/2010 8:17:37 PM PDT by this_ol_patriot (I saw manbearpig and all I got was an autographed picture of Helen Thomas.)
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To: HerrBlucher

“The Bell broke the sound barrier in Yeagers case, Baumgartner is going to use his body. Could be interesting, but completely useless otherwise.”

The pressure suit will be breaking the sound barrier.


40 posted on 05/22/2010 8:34:58 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Don't think of work as 5 days on, 2 days off. Instead think 4 nights on, 3 off.)
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