Parachute Jump from 102,800ft

[usa_patriot]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MkB6NkQscI

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-369888258105653405&q=%22First+man+In+Space+-+Skydiving+from+the+edge+of+the+world%22+playable%3Atrue

http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/3261/kittingerjump2zo2.jpg

[Aerosoul]

this is awesome.

[Gauntlet]

Cool but then it went into this surfing thing. Huh?

[Generation Kill]

Thats crazy

[BadKarma26]

im drunk and i watchd that sdhit and it really relaxed me and i called me girlfriend and it was tight. i like that bifoe

[MARINO]

amazing, how much is in M

[Galileo]

Wait august, Michel fournier will make a jump from 130 000 feet and if all will be ok, he will break 4 world records:

- Altitude record for freefall
- Altitude record for human balloon flight
- Time record for longest freefall
- Speed record for fastest freefall

http://www.thesuperjump.org/

[nwtarr]

amazing and cool

[Apathy]

I demand the name of that music!

[Former Gold Falcon]

Loved the actual jump footage (NO HOW NO WAY I'D DO THAT!!) not to crazy about the none jump footage at the end.

Thanks for posting!

T.

[Birsanc]

I demand the name of that music!

The song is 'Dayvan Cowboy' by Boards of Canada. The album it's on is called 'Trans Canada Highway'

The featured clip is the music video for the song.

[Acid Bath]

Wait august, Michel fournier will make a jump from 130 000 feet and if all will be ok, he will break 4 world records:

- Altitude record for freefall
- Altitude record for human balloon flight
- Time record for longest freefall
- Speed record for fastest freefall

http://www.thesuperjump.org/

I do not understand how he can set the record for fastest freefall. Wouldn't both people have reached terminal velocity and not be able to fall any faster. I know nothing about science so I have no idea what I am talking about though. Can someone who knows explain how it will work?

[RP]

I do not understand how he can set the record for fastest freefall. Wouldn't both people have reached terminal velocity and not be able to fall any faster. I know nothing about science so I have no idea what I am talking about though. Can someone who knows explain how it will work?

Simple: at the attitude he jumped from, there is almost no air at all (not vacum like in space, but very close), hence there is no friction so there is no terminal velocity.
Inside the atmosphire the maximum speed is around 300km/h, while in this jump he reached speed of 330m/s (around 1200km/h).

[Eggy]

The only thing coming to my mind was: I hope he had warm clothes on.

[deadhorse]

This might be a stupid question too, but from that kind of altitude, does he know where he is going to land? Can he steer his way to a drop zone?

[Acid Bath]

Simple: at the attitude he jumped from, there is almost no air at all (not vacum like in space, but very close), hence there is no friction so there is no terminal velocity.
Inside the atmosphire the maximum speed is around 300km/h, while in this jump he reached speed of 330m/s (around 1200km/h).


Thank you that makes a lot of sense even to someone who has failed science as many times as me.

[Galileo]

He know how to land, he is not a newbie in paradropping, he drop over Saskatchewan, a flat area, he choose August because there is no wind or wind sheer during few days in this aera. Last year he can't jump because the doors didn't open (the locks were frozen at the drop altitude) so after modification they are ready.
First he ask to the defense ministery in France to jump over the Centre d'Essai des Landes over the sea (a misisle tests zone in south east of France) but the governement deny him to do the jump (too dangerous) so he choose Canada.

[spin]

Inside the atmosphire the maximum speed is around 300km/h,

There is a skydiving discipline called speedskydivnig, and record is a bit over 500 km/h (502.1km/h to be precise). They jump from 13124ft (4000m) and they measure average speed from 2700m to 1700m drop.
The highest peak speed that was measured during the jump is iirc is 537km/h.

[Khorde]

There is a skydiving discipline called speedskydivnig, and record is a bit over 500 km/h (502.1km/h to be precise). They jump from 13124ft (4000m) and they measure average speed from 2700m to 1700m drop.
The highest peak speed that was measured during the jump is iirc is 537km/h.

How do they achieve such high speeds?
And that man is a legend. And i dont even know his name

[Buckeye67]

And that man is a legend. And i dont even know his name

His name is Col. Joseph Kittinger (http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/afp/afp200.htm).

[spin]

How do they achieve such high speeds?
And that man is a legend. And i dont even know his name

They are using tight slick suts, even the one swimers use, that imitates shark skin, and they are falling head down.
http://www.valschermsport.be/scripts/speed1.jpg

[Creeper]

This might be a stupid question too, but from that kind of altitude, does he know where he is going to land? Can he steer his way to a drop zone?

Too easy - find the huge lake bed a few miles from the coast - Edwards AFB, California which is where he landed.
> Try Google Earth - you will see what i mean, BTW - The NASAs Shuttle landed there a few times. Easy dead stick approach from FL 100.