surf patrol wrote:I saw on this morning's news that he made the jump successfully. He broke the speed of sound and reached a top speed of 833.9mph (1,342km/h).
Hey SP . . . ^ Yeah, with all due respect to the dude . . . awesome, truly awesome . . . . really awesome . . . no help at all possible . . . just him and gravity never mind anything else at all . . . and Eight Hundred Miles per Hour !
The British newspaper The Telegraph says this about the drop >> ROSWELL, N.M. and the (in my book ) honourable Mr Felix Baumgartner . . . . <<
" The former military parachutist rose in a purpose-built capsule beneath a giant helium balloon to a height of more than 128,000ft – almost four times the height of a cruising passenger airliner.
After a salute to the millions watching around the world, Baumgartner jumped from the capsule and plummeted toward earth, reaching a speed of 833mph - or Mach 1.24 - faster than the speed of sound, according to his spokesman.
His remarkable feat came exactly 65 years to the day after Chuck Yeager became the first man to break the sound barrier in an aeroplane, and it was one of three world records Baumgartner set with his jump. He also smashed the records for the highest manned balloon flight and the highest skydive. "
As we say in Wales . . . Tidy'mun.
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 8:38 am
