23 mile skydive!

DJMK4 said:
Wow, Joseph Kittinger's 19mile sky dive looked epic, this should be awsome :), plus with modern capture equipment the video should be a cracker
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I was thinking the same thing.

Watching Kittinger's jump inspired me to try skydiving. I did my first tandem jump last month; it was awesome.

If I played and then won the lottery this would be one of the few extravagances I'd allow myself.
 
It takes one more step towards being a reality! He did a test jump from 71,000 feet!!!

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One thing, does the balloon separate and the capsule parachute back to Earth?
 
Thanks for posting the update, saves me doing it! :D

From what I've read in blogs and other forums the capsule does come back to ground... I'd have thought it would be too expensive otherwise?!
 
Man alive! Breaking the sound barrier is nothing but that suit... how on earth.. what a loon. I guess its a lot safer/easier when the atmosphere is so thin.
 
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On March 15, 2012, Austria's Felix Baumgartner jumped out of a space capsule from an altitude of approximately 71,580 feet as the Red Bull Stratos project moved forward into the manned flight stage in New Mexico. The 42-year-old rode the space capsule attached to a giant helium balloon above the so-called "Armstrong Line." The goal of the Red Bull Stratos project is to see Baumgartner attempt a record-breaking freefall from 120,000 feet this summer where he'll potentially become the first man to go supersonic without the support of a vehicle.
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It must be unreal to fall that far & see the World from that perspective. :cool:
 
Burnsy - after nearly 8 years of having the other one I'm sure you'll get used to it! (I browse with Avatars off anyway ;)).

4T5 - agreed, so much serenity and beauty from that height, and the speed and experience that he will go through is just incredible. Heck, even from my heighest jump (24,000ft) the view and the feeling was incredible. I can only imagine what it'd be like from up there!
 
Bang Goes the Theory re enacted this event with a special balloon and a action man.
They sent eagle eyes up to 19 or 23 miles high and had camera to video it all !
Amazing
 
Burnsy2023 said:
On another note, that avatar really doesn't suit you FF.
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Agreed

Freefaller said:
Oh, is that on iplayer? I'd love to see it!
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If you can get it as well, one of the episodes of James May's Man Lab, they sent two pets' ashes up into 'space' in helium balloons, until the balloons popped. Significantly hanging below the balloon though they attached some cameras, so you got the whole shot of it flying back to earth. Very cool.

This looks absolutely incredible though, the adrenaline from this would be absolutely awesome.

kd
 
godinman said:
Christ that article was a horrible read.

It was just full of short sentences split into paragraphs.

It read like a 13 year olds film review.

I think the BBC are going downhill.

This will be an awesome jump, hopefully with better cameras and things we'll get a better view of the jump. (as above)
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the fluff pieces like this on the website seem to be written by the interns for experience.
 
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