sky dive from 120,000 feet
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sky dive from 120,000 feet
Hi all just thought id share this with you
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Sky News - Skydiver Prepares To Jump From Edge Of Space http://news.sky.com/story/995122/skydiver-prepares-to-jump-from-edge-of-space
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Sky News - Skydiver Prepares To Jump From Edge Of Space http://news.sky.com/story/995122/skydiver-prepares-to-jump-from-edge-of-space
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Wasn't that done years ago?
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Crash, Joe Kittinger holds the record for highest freefall, for his jump in 1960 from 102,800 feet.
BBC News - Skydiver Felix Baumgartner set to break sound barrier
This dude Felix Baumgartner is looking to break the record, by jumping from "more than 120,000 feet".
BBC News - Skydiver Felix Baumgartner set to break sound barrier
This dude Felix Baumgartner is looking to break the record, by jumping from "more than 120,000 feet".
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I had to laugh when I listened to it on the Radio Scotland News this morning....The news report said "He was going to freefall at Mach1 then deploy his chute and float to the earth"........at the end of the report the presenter said " lets all hope the float to the earth bit goes OK" ..
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Crash, Joe Kittinger holds the record for highest freefall, for his jump in 1960 from 102,800 feet.
A Russian pilot held the previous record, Baumgartner's previous jump is currently being processed by the FAI.
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No, he doesn't. Firstly because he did not freefall
Oh well back to work, I think my boss has realised that pprune is not a windows server forum ...dang, incoming internet filter.
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You got me, that is right actually, I think what I have misread is that he has the record for the highest skydive, however your point on no paperwork as it was a test, rather than a record breaking attempt kinda throws that out too.
I have no idea however how Baumgartner actually manages to maintain stability without a drogue.
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If that weren't the case then the actual record would be held by the crew of Apollo 10 as they were the first to fall all the way from the moon, albeit without a single second of freefall.
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Firstly because he did not freefall at all as a drogue chute deployed
automatically as soon as he jumped, otherwise he would have started spinning so
violently that he would have lost consciousness pretty quickly (no air to "grab"
on to at that altitude).
automatically as soon as he jumped, otherwise he would have started spinning so
violently that he would have lost consciousness pretty quickly (no air to "grab"
on to at that altitude).
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Surely a drop of a few feet before the drogue chute extended above him would be the free fall bit ?
Unless he jumped with the line already extended and the drogue chute already inflated
Unless the free fall bit is defined ie must free fall 1000 feet before any chute is extended 1 foot would do!
I also do not think something has to be classified as a record attempt to be classified as a record only that the event is prove able and accepted as such
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Unless he jumped with the line already extended and the drogue chute already inflated
Unless the free fall bit is defined ie must free fall 1000 feet before any chute is extended 1 foot would do!
I also do not think something has to be classified as a record attempt to be classified as a record only that the event is prove able and accepted as such
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So what did the drogue chute "grab on to" then?
- it had a much larger area than its cargo and a regular shape (conical), making it inherently stable
- because of the geometry of the whole thing, with Kittinger "hanging" from the chute creating even more stability, much like a ship with its ballast at the bottom of the hull
Add to that the fact that the full pressure suit that was in use at the time was as stiff as a board, making it impossible for Kittinger to move his arms and legs in order to stop any incipient spin, like a normal skydiver has to do all the time or he will start spinning soon enough.
Baumgartner's suit doesn't look like a full pressure setup to me, maybe he has enough mobility to control his attitude. The video material currently being released only shows him stepping out of the capsule, we don't know what the first few seconds of freefall look like.
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I may be getting the parachuting definition of free fall mixed up here but surely Apollo 10 was in free fall after it's last main engine burn to put it on it's Earth trajectory, IE from Moon orbit?
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I also do not think something has to be classified as a record attempt to be classified as a record only that the event is prove able and accepted as such
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