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.
It's in the definition of skydive (or rather, parachute jump in official FAI language) that it has to start in freefall and end in a (preferably soft
) landing under a parachute canopy. 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.
I have no idea however how Baumgartner actually manages to maintain stability without a drogue.
Ciao,
Dg800