23 mile skydive!

Skeeter · 15 Oct 2012 at 01:41

Looks like he made 2 attempts to roll onto his front to stop the spin and the second one worked. It all looks very controlled, but I bet he was papping himself.

nemtizz · 15 Oct 2012 at 02:12

Flare · 15 Oct 2012 at 02:13

qqg3 said:
First suit-camera footage?

Awesome stuff!

For anyone who can't speak German, to quote myself:
"That clip was purely about them talking about the spin that Felix got in to & him being in control of it. They mention about how interesting and rare it is for someone to spin on the back the way he does he does."

Skeeter · 15 Oct 2012 at 02:27

Flare said:
They mention about how interesting and rare it is for someone to spin on the back the way he does

Rare? Lol. Its happened once, from a total number of.... one 128,000 feet, 700mph sky dive

V F · 15 Oct 2012 at 02:31

What is the song?

Hamster · 15 Oct 2012 at 02:39

V F said:
What is the song?

V F · 15 Oct 2012 at 02:45

Nice. \o/

TomProx · 15 Oct 2012 at 08:14

That was probably one of the coolest things ive seen ever, the moment were he first fell forward off the pod, was incredible.

Derek W · 15 Oct 2012 at 08:21

Wonder how much cash that photographer will have made from the media seeing as he was the first person to meet Felix from the 'recovery team'

HEADRAT · 15 Oct 2012 at 08:36

Just AMAZING!

Name · 15 Oct 2012 at 08:51

Nooo they took the headcam footage down, why?

ALIENS.

RockLobster · 15 Oct 2012 at 08:57

name89 said:
Nooo they took the headcam footage down, why?

ALIENS.

It might because the BBC / National Geographic have exclusive rights?

chrisxuk · 15 Oct 2012 at 09:00

Here's some of the headcam footage

http://www.********.com/view?i=ef7_1350270285

jaybee · 15 Oct 2012 at 09:07

Can't believe I missed this live.

I was watching all day Tuesday when it was delayed and my son wanted to watch with me. Then I forgot totally on Sunday.

Doh. I just watched it all...not the same when it's not live. Oh well. Fantastic though. Could not understand barely one word Felix said on the way down other than his visor steamed up and something about maybe passing out?

antijoke · 15 Oct 2012 at 09:25

Watched it with all the family. Pretty epic stuff.

Tattysnuc · 15 Oct 2012 at 09:30

chrisxuk said:
Here's some of the headcam footage

http://www.********.com/view?i=ef7_1350270285

Wow. Just WOW!

Scarecrow · 15 Oct 2012 at 09:43

As much as i loved seeing the shuttle lift off that was better for me. The speed felix got too was incredible. Hope he does it again with a wing suit on

antijoke · 15 Oct 2012 at 09:47

No doubt the suit cam footgae wll make its way to the DVD.

Nightglow · 15 Oct 2012 at 09:51

We need a woman to do it now. :eek:

jaybee · 15 Oct 2012 at 09:54

I just watched the 28 minute press conference. Really nice. Amazing. Someone asked him what next. He replied that he wanted to also be sitting here in many years mentoring a younger person who is looking to do something new and break new records etc.
Surely we are going to see some nice serious high res images come out of this? Also POV cam stuff. There is some as linked above on ********, but not that long.