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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #75 on: October 14, 2012, 02:06:11 PM »
Quote from: kgbsquirrel on October 14, 2012, 02:04:01 PM
Time for the Mercury prayer?

"Oh God, please don't let me *expletive deleted* up."

For sure.
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #76 on: October 14, 2012, 02:08:42 PM »
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #77 on: October 14, 2012, 02:09:16 PM »
729 and decelerating.
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #78 on: October 14, 2012, 02:09:32 PM »
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #79 on: October 14, 2012, 02:11:37 PM »
He said he thought he was going to pass out from initial spin.
Visor is fogging up.
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #80 on: October 14, 2012, 02:12:54 PM »
Just opened the chute. He didn't break Kittinger's free fall time.
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #81 on: October 14, 2012, 02:13:15 PM »
"there's the chute"
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #82 on: October 14, 2012, 02:13:28 PM »
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Just opened the chute. He didn't break Kittinger's free fall time.

Damn. Then again, he was moving about 100mph faster than Kittinger.
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #83 on: October 14, 2012, 02:13:52 PM »
True. He was moving fast.
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #84 on: October 14, 2012, 02:14:18 PM »
Didn't miss it by much and if he knew he would have held out.
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #85 on: October 14, 2012, 02:14:43 PM »
Opened early. Visor was fogged.
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #86 on: October 14, 2012, 02:16:28 PM »
"Drop the *expletive deleted*ing flares."
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #87 on: October 14, 2012, 02:17:19 PM »
Touchdown!!!!!!
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #88 on: October 14, 2012, 02:17:30 PM »
Stand up landing.  He stuck it!
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #89 on: October 14, 2012, 02:18:02 PM »
and, he's down.
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #90 on: October 14, 2012, 02:18:09 PM »
It would be neat to see some video from the capsule on its descent.
I wonder where the balloon itself will end up?
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #91 on: October 14, 2012, 02:20:27 PM »
Two and a half hours up. 7 minutes down.
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #92 on: October 14, 2012, 02:24:18 PM »
Pretty darned cool! :cool:
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #93 on: October 14, 2012, 02:25:32 PM »
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #94 on: October 14, 2012, 02:28:23 PM »
Very impressive.  He made it look easy.

The view from the capsule looking down before he jumped really put things into perspective.
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #95 on: October 14, 2012, 02:34:28 PM »
Baumgartner almost didn't jump. He suffered from claustraphobia in the pressure suit.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/12/tech/claustrophobia-skydiver/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

He had to deal with that as well as all the technical aspects. No surprise that he was a bit testy.
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #96 on: October 14, 2012, 02:52:54 PM »
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Just opened the chute. He didn't break Kittinger's free fall time.

A significant portion of joe k's "free fall" was under a stabilizing drogue, which slowed his descent and lengthened the time.
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #97 on: October 14, 2012, 03:35:09 PM »
Did he actually go supersonic? So far, the articles I've seen weren't definitive.
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #98 on: October 14, 2012, 03:40:21 PM »
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The view from the capsule looking down before he jumped really put things into perspective.

Link?
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Re: Felix Baumgartner skydiving through sound barrier.
« Reply #99 on: October 14, 2012, 03:41:25 PM »
At zero degrees F the speed of sound is 712mph. He topped at least 730 on the way down and from his altitude it would actually get colder a bit before warming back up. Something like -60 if I'm remembering right (which would be 668MPH for mach 1).
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