RedBull Stratos...Felix Baumgartner....700mph+ FreeFall
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CraigyMc said:
Odie said:
..he loves civilian jumps, he does as many as he can as often as he can hes pretty much addicted too them...
There's a sort of weird "hippy skydive-junkie" scene in the US where you find people scraping a living at DZs like Elsinore while getting in as many jumps as they can.It's oddly communal and at the same time you get people who are about as Alpha as possible in the same mix. An odd crowd, really. They are brought together by the shared experience of jumping - it's not something they would do with just anyone - it's more personal than that.
MonTheFish - Are UK DZs like that? I know Elsinore and Perris are.
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But the UK drop zones are horribly cliquey/snobby and not really like that at all unfortunately.
mrmr96 said:
Do we have any footage taken from on board Felix's suit as he fell? Presumably they had some, but I've not seen it online yet.
from a few pages back:joe_90 said:
Only a short clip but still.
Massively impressive. Is the max Altitude record limited by the max Alt balloons (with capsules) can reach? Obviously he was higher up than the chap in the '60s but not massively, presumably balloon technology has moved on since then? From what I could tell, they seemed to wait till the balloon 'levelled off' and then started running the checklists or did they stop the ascent themselves? Could a balloon go higher if it was bigger or was carrying a jumper will less or oven no capsule?
Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere.
Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere.
el stovey said:
Massively impressive. Is the max Altitude record limited by the max Alt balloons (with capsules) can reach? Obviously he was higher up than the chap in the '60s but not massively, presumably balloon technology has moved on since then? From what I could tell, they seemed to wait till the balloon 'levelled off' and then started running the checklists or did they stop the ascent themselves? Could a balloon go higher if it was bigger or was carrying a jumper will less or oven no capsule?
Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere.
Think it's something to do with the pressure difference between the Oxygen and the Helium up there.Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere.
JonnyFive said:
el stovey said:
Massively impressive. Is the max Altitude record limited by the max Alt balloons (with capsules) can reach? Obviously he was higher up than the chap in the '60s but not massively, presumably balloon technology has moved on since then? From what I could tell, they seemed to wait till the balloon 'levelled off' and then started running the checklists or did they stop the ascent themselves? Could a balloon go higher if it was bigger or was carrying a jumper will less or oven no capsule?
Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere.
Think it's something to do with the pressure difference between the Oxygen and the Helium up there.Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere.
, just in case...el stovey said:
Massively impressive. Is the max Altitude record limited by the max Alt balloons (with capsules) can reach? Obviously he was higher up than the chap in the '60s but not massively, presumably balloon technology has moved on since then? From what I could tell, they seemed to wait till the balloon 'levelled off' and then started running the checklists or did they stop the ascent themselves? Could a balloon go higher if it was bigger or was carrying a jumper will less or oven no capsule?
Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere.
They briefly mentioned this in the commentary - there are vents in the top of the balloon canopy to slow it down as essentially it would keep going until it burst. They were waiting for it to stop on it's own (which it did momentarily), but it kept going and going. I don't know if they bothered stopping it in the end, he just got out and walked.Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere.
So, having performed this amazing, clenchy buttocks of a feat, would it be fair to say that from here on in, life could seem a little...pedestrian?
There were certainly tales of a few Apollo & Gemini guys hitting the bottle, losing their marriages etc. after missions. You're a very high powered guy in the air force & the absolute top of your profession is going into space. Once you've done that, what is left to conquer?
There were certainly tales of a few Apollo & Gemini guys hitting the bottle, losing their marriages etc. after missions. You're a very high powered guy in the air force & the absolute top of your profession is going into space. Once you've done that, what is left to conquer?
Blown2CV said:
am i right in interpreting that he said "i'm done" to mean that he isn't going to give it another go to try and get the freefall record too?
These guys are ALWAYS "done" just after the event. He's a bloke that wiki said:
claimed the world record for the highest parachute jump from a building when he jumped from the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. On 31 July 2003, Baumgartner became the first person to skydive across the English Channel using a specially made carbon fiber wing.[5] He also set the world record for the lowest BASE jump ever, when he jumped 95 feet (29 m) from the hand of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.[6]
He became the first person to BASE jump from the completed Millau Viaduct in France on 27 June 2004[citation needed] and the first person to skydive onto, then BASE jump from, the Turning Torso building in Malmö, Sweden on 18 August 2006.[7] On 12 December 2007 he became the first person to jump from the 91st floor observation deck, then went to the 90th floor (about 390 m (1,280 ft)) of the then tallest completed building in the world, Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan.[8]
Now he's jumped from a capsule reaching mach 1 on the way down. I can't see him giving up any time soon. He became the first person to BASE jump from the completed Millau Viaduct in France on 27 June 2004[citation needed] and the first person to skydive onto, then BASE jump from, the Turning Torso building in Malmö, Sweden on 18 August 2006.[7] On 12 December 2007 he became the first person to jump from the 91st floor observation deck, then went to the 90th floor (about 390 m (1,280 ft)) of the then tallest completed building in the world, Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan.[8]
Blown2CV said:
am i right in interpreting that he said "i'm done" to mean that he isn't going to give it another go to try and get the freefall record too?
I maybe right in thinking that unless he has a wing suit on he is never getting that record as he hasnt the distance to fall as he is going too fast.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff