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Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 5:34 pm
by nafod
Live streaming it...can watch it right in this thread, I guess...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkJ5ItzEq3M[/youtube]
Edit: gusty winds were blowing the balloon all over the place prior to launch. ABORT.
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 9:08 pm
by Mickey O'neil
Bummer.
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 11:51 pm
by Protobuilder
That means that somebody else could do it before him.
I am willing to chip in to get a pool going if Andy agrees to try.
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:00 pm
by Batboy2/75
Looks like they are shooting for Sunday.
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:02 am
by nafod
I'll be there (virtually)
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 8:11 pm
by Andy83
NBD. I'd do it if I could borrow a suit.
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 3:50 pm
by JonnyCat
Felix is going for it (watching live).
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 4:12 pm
by Protobuilder
It's a link that you should click.
http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 4:46 pm
by Andy83
Bet he makes it without incident.
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:17 pm
by Mickey O'neil
That was great.
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:18 pm
by Protobuilder
Fine, I am impressed.
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:21 pm
by JonnyCat
Success! That was radical!
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:21 pm
by Gav
Big cojones Felix. Bravo!
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:43 pm
by Gary John
Watched it.
Kind of disappointed it was a success. Would have won the Darwin award hands down.
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:55 pm
by Thatcher II
A real David Bowie moment when he just jumped into space and quickly became a dot. I was quite literally amazed.
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:57 pm
by Thatcher II
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:59 pm
by tough old man
that.....was.......AWESOME!!!!!
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:52 pm
by nafod
Mach 1.24
Trying to imagine how much faster Big Peach would have been
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 12:36 am
by Andy83
I missed it. Did he break the sound barrier?
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:03 am
by Protobuilder
Andy79 wrote:I missed it. Did he break the sound barrier?
Yep.
Kittinger, the mission controller impressed the hell out of me as well. He was the only person communicating with Felix, helping break his own record and did so at the age of 84.
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:04 am
by Protobuilder
Terry B. wrote:Andy79 wrote:I missed it. Did he break the sound barrier?
Yep.
Kittinger, the mission controller impressed the hell out of me as well. He was the only person communicating with Felix, helping break his own record and did so at the age of 84.
Colonel Joseph William Kittinger II (born July 27, 1928) is a former command pilot, career military officer and retired Colonel in the United States Air Force. He is most famous for his participation in Project Manhigh and Project Excelsior, holding the records for having the second longest skydive, from a height greater than 31 kilometres (19 mi),[1] and for being the first man to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a gas balloon. In 2012 at the age of 84 he participated in the Red Bull Stratos project as mission controller, directing Felix Baumgartner on his record breaking 128,000 ft freefall from Earth's stratosphere. Serving as a fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, he achieved an aerial kill of a North Vietnamese jet fighter and was later shot down himself, spending 11 months as a prisoner of war in a North Vietnamese prison.
Damn, every kid needs to know about this guy.
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:29 am
by nafod
Watching him jump reminded me of the insertion of troops in Starship Trooper (the book, not the movie).
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:47 am
by Andy83
Mach 1.2! Wow holy shit!
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:07 am
by Holland Oates
Probably one of the greatest things I've seen.
Re: Red Bull 23 mile parachute jump was ON is now OFF
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:09 am
by WildGorillaMan
Has anybody else broken Mach with only a pressure suit on?