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sidewinder
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PostPosted: 17:21 - 08 Oct 2012    Post subject: Red bull stratos jump on tuesday a must see Reply with quote

Felix Baumgartner plans to leap from just under 23 miles above the Earth's surface today, in what will be the world's highest ever skydive. A helium balloon will carry the Austrian to an altitude of 120,000 feet. If successful, his jump will break both a 52 year sky-diving record and the sound barrier.

The entire event will be streamed online here: https://www.redbullstratos.com/

EDIT: the skydive has now been postponed until tomorrow.

Below Baumgartner can be seen preparing for his previous jump, at 71,500 feet on March 15, 2012. Cool
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PostPosted: 17:25 - 08 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

will be watching, been waiting on this one, the ultimate extreme jump Thumbs Up

just noticed the feed Thumbs Up Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 17:48 - 08 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jesustittyfuckingchrist.

Kudos to the man if he can do it and survive.

This is the current record jump from 1960, 102,800 feet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw8OJJQ_hgk&feature=related
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PostPosted: 17:57 - 08 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

It is rather high.it's almost the same as my home to work Very Happy
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PostPosted: 18:07 - 08 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

he will be going supersonic for a part of the fall, that would be worth doing the jump for alone
apparently you have no sensation of falling until your much lower
given the chance I would do it, thats a bucket list if ever there was one Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 18:17 - 08 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Logged a guess for his landing zone... nothing to lose but a very expensive watch to gain!
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PostPosted: 18:24 - 08 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Logged a guess for his landing zone... nothing to lose but a very expensive watch to gain!


from that hight the landing zone is about half the planet surface Laughing

its very possible he could get blown hundreds of miles off course
he has a lot of high altitude fast moving air to travel through
before he will be able to even see the region he will land in never mind which field or DZ
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PostPosted: 18:46 - 08 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

how long would it take him get back down at that sort of speed i recon 20mins but probably a long way of Very Happy
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PostPosted: 20:28 - 08 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

No info on the site either
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PostPosted: 20:49 - 08 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

sidewinder wrote:
how long would it take him get back down at that sort of speed i recon 20mins but probably a long way of Very Happy



About 5 or 6 minutes....ish free fall, with a total of about 15-20 minutes...one heck of a fall!
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PostPosted: 21:09 - 08 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

oldpink wrote:
he will be going supersonic for a part of the fall, that would be worth doing the jump for alone
apparently you have no sensation of falling until your much lower
given the chance I would do it, thats a bucket list if ever there was one Thumbs Up


A bit of trickery in the speed of sound though. In thinner atmosphere the speed of sound will be different that the at Sea level 1 Bar-14 PSI.

And what of terminal velocity.

So the speed of decent/falling will be relative.

Are we in the wrong thread now Shouldn't this be in here? :

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=256527

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_fall

During the late 1950s, Captain Joseph Kittinger of the United States was assigned to the Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. For Project Excelsior (meaning "ever upward", a name given to the project by Colonel John Stapp), as part of research into high altitude bailout, he made a series of three parachute jumps wearing a pressurized suit, from a helium balloon with an open gondola.
The first, from 76,400 feet (23,290 m) in November, 1959 was a near tragedy when an equipment malfunction caused him to lose consciousness, but the automatic parachute saved him (he went into a flat spin at a rotational velocity of 120 rpm; the g-force at his extremities was calculated to be over 22 times that of gravity, setting another record). Three weeks later he jumped again from 74,700 feet (22,770 m). For that return jump Kittinger was awarded the A. Leo Stevens parachute medal.
On August 16, 1960 he made the final jump from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,330 m). Towing a small drogue chute for stabilization, he fell for 4 minutes and 36 seconds reaching a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h) [1] before opening his parachute at 14,000 feet (4,270 m). Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, and his right hand swelled to twice its normal size.[4] He set records for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest drogue-fall (4 min), and fastest speed by a human through the atmosphere.[5]
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PostPosted: 21:13 - 08 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

So glad they delayed til Tuesday, so I can watch. I was a bit busy today in a small portacabin with Buzz Aldrin Shifty

Love that Joe Kittinger is so closely involved in the jump, cos he is the *man*.
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PostPosted: 18:47 - 09 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cmon take off Very Happy

Been watching all day Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 18:51 - 09 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Scrubbed. Sad
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PostPosted: 19:08 - 09 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

im gutted Sad i sat watching the sky all day on this live stream and now its been scrubbed cos of wind Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: 19:29 - 09 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Damn it damn it damn it Sad
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PostPosted: 13:00 - 10 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are there any special training requirements or qualifications needed to opt into such a thing?

Because to sound incredibly naive and unrealistic, I dont see the fuss in it, I'd do it tomorrow given a backpack and a countdown of when to do each step.
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PostPosted: 13:10 - 10 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

ST3V3 wrote:
Are there any special training requirements or qualifications needed to opt into such a thing?

Because to sound incredibly naive and unrealistic, I dont see the fuss in it, I'd do it tomorrow given a backpack and a countdown of when to do each step.


Working the capsule, operating the suit, sucking a lot of corporate penis.

I'm sure you could manage 30% of that.

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PostPosted: 17:14 - 14 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's happening
Currently at 48'295 ft Shocked Very Happy
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PostPosted: 17:21 - 14 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Watching it live, still cant help but laugh at his surname. Dude must have some stones to do this. Thumbs Up
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