Live Feed - Jump From Edge of Space

Felix Baumgartner's jump has been delayed till 17.30 GMT. Found a live feed,

http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/jump-from-the-edge-of-space-live-1.1399518

He'll be attempting to break 4 records,

Highest ever jump.

Fastest Freefall Speed.

First Skydiver to break the sound barrier.

Highest ever manned ballon flight.

Just found out its not quite live, there is a 20 second delay in case of tragedy.

 

We ought to support him, his name means Orchard, so he's decended from a family of Gardeners.

 

They've just aborted the mission till at least tomorrow due to the wind getting up again

 

Isn't the wind permanently up at that altitude? I thought it was quite normal for the wind to run at hundreds of mph once you got up above the weather.

 

Yep, it wasn't that though, the wind blew the ballon against the ground a couple of times.

Its very thin material, it has to be checked for damage now. Any fine tear could be catastrophic as the ballon expands as the air gets thinner.

 

Aw was looking forward to see that

 

I would like to know HOW
A nylon parachute, will fare, slowing you down from 690mph Surley it will shred?

Branson did his balloon trick a few years ago, and a couple of miles up the wind at 200mph took him across the world, So how do they think they will go straight up and jump back down in the same place ?

I have pop corn and coke ready

Jack McH

 

Gonna keep watching this thread
Zigs ,

 

I don't know the details but i'm sure he'll deploy starter chutes like the apollo landing modules before the main chute.

I'll be checking it & will bump the thread when the countdown resumes

Doesn't matter where he comes back down, if it fails, they'll never find enough of him to do an autopsy

 

I'm going in me pill box



Don't want "Vaporised by a plummeting Austrian" on me Tombstone.

 

got room for a little one Zigster.....