adriantc 0 Report post Posted October 9, 2012 You may have heard during the last few days/weeks about the jump that Felix Baumgartner is going to take from the very edge of space. If you haven't hard about this - in a nutshell Felix is going to do a skydive from the stratosphere, which is a record altitude of 37 km or 23 miles. In fact he will be the very first human to reach and go beyond the speed of sound without any craft, just in freefall. He is expected to reach a maximum speed of 1100 km/h. Beyond the record speed it seems some important scientific conclusions will be drawn from this jump.Of course he will have a fully pressurised suit and he will go up with a ballon. On a funny note he will take off from the famous Roswell - who knows what he'll met on his way up...Well after some delays caused by weather problems he is about to embark for the jump. You can watch the action live HERE... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adriantc 0 Report post Posted October 10, 2012 A small update for those not tune to this attempt. Launch has been aborted yet again because of strong winds... Just as they began balloon inflation. Maybe next time... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NateP 1 Report post Posted October 13, 2012 Wow this is the first I have heard about this. It looks like they have planned the next possible launch date to be Oct. 14th. Thanks for letting everyone know about this. I am going to try and watch this live on the 14th. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adriantc 0 Report post Posted October 14, 2012 It has been done... A historical moment.... Finally today's attempt was successful. Felix Baumgartner now holds the record for a skydive from the highest altitude and he is (not yet officially) the first men ever to reach the speed of sound in free-fall. However his jump was shorter then Joe Kittinger's 4-minute, 36-second jump. Absolutely amazing feat of human engineering and human courage. Congratulations to Felix and him team for this unforgeable moment. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OpaQue 15 Report post Posted October 17, 2012 WOW... Did they have like LIVE statistics on the WIND speed.. his speed of fall etc.. on the website?. If Yes, I missed some crazy ****. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adriantc 0 Report post Posted November 4, 2012 (edited) Most data wasn't actually live... more of an approximate... For example his speed wasn't in real time (took a few days to get a real/official reading), but what they expected it to be and I'm pretty sure wind speed was also just a guess. Maybe they can measure it near the balloon and near the surface, but there is no way they could have known the wind speed as he was falling.On a side note... have you seen the video taken from Felix's helmet... his point of view? You can find it here: [media]http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ spin looked a lot worse in real-time. And it's amazing to see the whole earth in just one spin. He truly is the men with balls of steel. Edited November 4, 2012 by adriantc (see edit history) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
