Very cool. Whered those numbers come from? ?? I saw 729mph but that was the unofficial tv numbers.....
Red Bull Stratos
- Thread starter DAVe3283
- Start date
For the first 40-50 seconds, he was so high, there was literally no atmospheric pressure slowing him down....he couldn't even steer his body until he dropped low enough to be in our gaseous atmosphere. If you watch the video, you can actually see when that happens..... he was coming down in a flat spin before he was able to rcover himself a get into a controlled descent.
It's from an AP artcile. Here's the article....
Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner became the first skydiver to break the speed of sound in a 24-mile-high jump from a balloon on Sunday, reaching 833.9 mph in a free fall that lasted some 9 minutes.
Landing on his feet in the New Mexico desert, the man known as "Fearless Felix" lifted his arms in victory to the cheers of onlookers and friends.
"When I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble, you do not think about breaking records anymore, you do not think about gaining scientific data," he said after the jump. "The only thing you want is to come back alive."
"Sometimes we have to get really high to see how small we are," an exuberant Baumgartner told reporters outside mission control after safely returning to Earth.
Here's a gallery of photos from Baumgartner's leap into the record books.
He had 10 mins of oxygen... Freefall was not 9 mins.. More like 4 1/2. I also saw 729mph... Where does the extra 100mph come into play?
I don't know, I didn't write the article. I saw the same thing, 729mph. If you have questions please direct them towards Dugald McConnell, Josh Levs and Brian Todd at CNN as that is who wrote the article.
From that high up, his aim to land where he wanted to is amazing. I wonder how they figured that out so he didn't end up landing in another state? I figure horizontal winds could be hard to deal with, no?
Pretty cool!
Pretty cool!
He first went through the jet stream and was going about 90mph? east, then when he passed it, he went 40mph west, so ended up roughly where he started?
The data feed seemed to be choppy.
I'm going to guess when he hit the speed of sound, then he started tumbling. Different areas of an object hit the sound barrier at different times. When you hit it, it exerts a much higher force than subsonic air does. So that probably caused the spin. They crashed a bunch of planes when the sound barrier was first discovered. There was a time when they were not sure an airplane could go faster than sound reliably.
The data feed seemed to be choppy.
I'm going to guess when he hit the speed of sound, then he started tumbling. Different areas of an object hit the sound barrier at different times. When you hit it, it exerts a much higher force than subsonic air does. So that probably caused the spin. They crashed a bunch of planes when the sound barrier was first discovered. There was a time when they were not sure an airplane could go faster than sound reliably.