High Altitude Record

[regulator 0]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/skydiver-aims-to-jump-from-120000-feet-break-the-sound-barrier/

[Flyfast 0]

Here's Felix explaining the "Brake Parachute"

An electronic sensor will calculate anything more than 3 g's for 5 seconds, then deploy the brake.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/05/17/intv.baumgartner.skydive.cnn?hpt=C2

Still have not seen a date or location for the balloon launch..

ZC OG

[Coasterbrad 0]

Roughly how long will it take him tog et to altitude? Must be a fun ride up :)

[kallend 1,625]

Segment on CBS this morning:
www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6491348n&tag=related;photovideo

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[chuteless 1]

Euro FEET ? Is that supposed to be a new measuring system? I think you are referring to metric. My highest jump ( 36,916 ft is 44 feet short of

7 X 5280 ft equals 7 miles. ( 36,960 feet )

36,916 ft is ( 11,252.019 meters )

[chuteless 1]

According to USPA and CSPA records, I hold the record for the highest non-military supported jumps in both day and night. DAY: 36916 or 11,252.019 Meters ( 44 ft short of 7 X 5280 ft = 7 miles )

NIGHT: ( With Rick Wall, from 30,571 ft over Canada's largest airport, Pearson Intnl ( Toronto) Airport.

Both jumps were made from a Cessna 210 Turbo ( not the same aircraft, but different a/c ) The night jump done by two jumpers, consider as a group jump ( more than 1 person).

Kittinger did NOT break the sound barrier. He did have a drogue chute for his entire freefall.



Bill Cole D-41 Canada, aka chuteless 2 and 3,

[chuteless 1]

As far as I am concerned, more than 1 person is a group jump. Rick and I jumped at 12:45 a.m. over Pearson airport and I consider that as a group night jump. It that pisses off CSPA and/or its members, then so be it. It was more than 1 jumper, it is the highest night jump, and whether anyone likes it or not, those are facts, recorded on 2 barographs, 1 in the aircraft, and I carried one during the freefall.