Red Bull Stratos Jump

looks like there is going to be an update in like 12 minutes?
 
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It was unreal to watch history in the making today. Little irony is that Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound on 10-14-1947
 
As someone who went skydiving for the first time this year (twice actually), this was amazing to watch. Hell, knowing how that rush feels, even I got a bit nervous and excited for him at the same time.

Mach 1.24. Wow!
 
That jump was intense. I thought he was going to pass out since he was spinning out of control in the first minute.
 
My neighbor, Gene and I were watching this with our eyes glued to the TV. It kept us on our seats the whole time. This guy's got balls the size of the universe to do that.
 
What I'd like to know is why he pulled his ripcord that high up(I think they said above 10,000 ft), the longer/lower you pull the slower you'll be falling. It showed that his faceshield fogged up, but didn't say if it cleared up later. Reason I wonder is he missed out on getting the longest freefall record, the only thing I can think of is he couldn't see his altimeter and or the ground?
I can't imagine any other reason to pull high, unless trying to land longer down wind.
 
He actually said in the press conference that the absolute minimum pull was to be at 5000 ft and he said he pulled at 5200 ft. The thing to remember with skydiving is that altitude is relative when it comes to parachute deployment. Roswell's elevation is 3573 ft. If you add 5200 ft you get 8700 ft. Not quite the 10000 ft you mention, but close.
 
squiggy said:
He actually said in the press conference that the absolute minimum pull was to be at 5000 ft and he said he pulled at 5200 ft. The thing to remember with skydiving is that altitude is relative when it comes to parachute deployment. Roswell's elevation is 3573 ft. If you add 5200 ft you get 8700 ft. Not quite the 10000 ft you mention, but close.
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That's good to hear, the only alt I heard was 10,000 and I knew the ground was some where around 3000(3500), and didn't hear what the preplaned alt was (the legal limit is 2000). Even though he had 3,500 feet left he could go before he had to pull, he did have a lot of stuff on his body and if he were to have a malfunction he'd probably rather be wearing his own pack and reserve at 2000.

Having had a streamer at a 2000 pull myself, I was still under the reserve before reaching 1500 ft. (that was with a back pack and chest reserve which means I had to release the back chute streamer go back into freefall and turn over so I'd be falling back to earth and then deploy my chest reserve).I mention this for the sake of ppl that might want to know what kind of time ppl really have to do things while freefalling. When I was jumping I competed in "Style" and "Accuracy". Style is to leave the aircraft at 6,600 and fall in a head dive for 13 sec(terminal velocity takes 12 sec at most jumping alt's)then tuck into a ball face down(back up) (that takes you from around 200 mph to 135 mph), at that point you have less than 8 sec to do 6 - 360º turns which includes transitions where you have to stop and start on the mark(no more or less than 360) the worlds best were doing it in about 5 sec or less(I was 6.5 to 7 sec.).

I was really interested in the problem of staying stable at above 100,000 ft,and the fac that he was falling blind, and in that pressure suit(where he sad he couldn't feel the air hitting him.

All said and done, I was more interested in this than a lot of other space stuff, not that I'm not interested in the space stuff,it's all great.
 
Having done our first two dive's each this past summer (tandems), my wife and I were exceptionally interested as well. We would both like to get our licenses...eventually (cost). I could not imagine what it was like for him to try and correct himself once he entered that spin since he was not able to feel any resistance. He did address the choice of 5000 ft was due to the amount of gear he had on. I would be curious to know what size chute he was using too.

On a final note, his landing was perfect!
 
squiggy said:
Having done our first two dive's each this past summer (tandems), my wife and I were exceptionally interested as well. We would both like to get our licenses...eventually (cost). I could not imagine what it was like for him to try and correct himself once he entered that spin since he was not able to feel any resistance. He did address the choice of 5000 ft was due to the amount of gear he had on. I would be curious to know what size chute he was using too.

On a final note, his landing was perfect!
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Congrates on making some freefalls( when I started jumping it was $2.50 for a 2500 jump and $3.50 for a 6600 and $4.00+ for a 12,000), most of my jumps were from 6600.
Had some fun jumps where we'd hook-up with others.

I remember somewhere in my 1st 10 jumps(working on my "A" lic.) I was trying to stop a built in r-turn and someone told me I was turning my head(a tendency when new to look for the ripcord), one control item fixed many more to go. Let's hear it for "Ground-Rush" .
 
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