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När jag såg detta live, såg man från en markkamera med värmeigenkänning, då bröt dom till "centralen" när han började snurra som värst.
Det var antagligen ganska nära att han däckade av G-krafterna som han själv säger i videon.
Ändå tog han bara ett av tre världsrekord när han gjorde detta hoppet va?
Dom andra är satta runt 1970-1980 (Om jag minns rätt) - Vilket är helt insane.
Edit; Det var satt 1960!
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Of the four records he was aiming to break with his 9 minute, 3 second descent, one had already been busted even before he stepped out of his capsule. At a maximum height of 128,097 feet above sea level, Baumgartner surpassed the record for highest manned balloon flight set in 1961 by U.S. Navy balloonists Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather, who floated up to 113,740 feet.
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Baumgartner was also chasing the record for highest freefall distance, which could be measured from his initial jump point, at 128,097 feet, to the moment he opened his ripcord — at 8251 feet above sea level. The total free fall distance — 119,846 feet — eclipsed the previous record of 102,800 feet by more than three miles
That earlier record was set in 1960 by U.S. Air Force Col.
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Baumgartner’s biggest record? He sought to be the first free-falling human to break the sound barrier, which he did handily. His top speed was calculated at 833.9 miles per hour, or Mach 1.24. (The speed of sound is measured at 761.2 miles per hour at sea level.)
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But Kittinger still retains one record after 52 years. Baumgartner failed to best his mentor in the longest freefall duration. On Sunday, the 43-year-old former paratrooper fell for 4 minutes and 20 seconds before pulling his parachute — more than a minute short of the 5 minutes, 35 seconds that mission planners had anticipated. He was just 16 seconds shy of Kittinger’s 1960 record of 4 minutes, 36 seconds.
This post was edited by Spetch on Feb 3 2014 05:22am