Today:120,000 foot space jump.

squod

I'd say he brought back brown underwear.

Dangerous Man

squod wrote: »

I'd say he brought back brown underwear.

They're up on Ebay now - 'Felix's Space **** Shorts.'

Edit: Please someone come in and say something worthwhile. Don't let this be the last post of the thread.

ScrubsfanChris

Dangerous Man wrote: »

Edit: Please someone come in and say something worthwhile. Don't let this be the last post of the thread.

Ok :P

Watching BBC news saying that the capsule if intact is re-usable. Does this mean we could see alot more jumps, higher/faster, In the coming years or even months...?

shedweller

Has the press conference started yet? I have the youtube page open but it says the conference will be coming shortly.????

Insect Overlord

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Watching BBC news saying that the capsule if intact is re-usable. Does this mean we could see alot more jumps, higher/faster, In the coming years or even months...?

Years, possibly. Someone would need fairly major sponsorship for the attempt, as well as quite a bit of specialised training.

Do Red Bull own the capsule? If they do, they might consider sponsoring another effort, but if they don't then I doubt they'd let someone else use it.

PogMoThoin

I read somewhere there was 7 years preparation

Jimoslimos

Sar_Bear wrote: »

I think he means it'd gonna be crap watchin it when you know everything goes to plan. Like watchin a football match after it's over & knowin the score. Watching it live was the only way to go!

In fairness, even watching live with the 10 minute time delay once he stepped out you kinda knew it was going to go to plan. Otherwise it would have been pulled by then.

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Years, possibly. Someone would need fairly major sponsorship for the attempt, as well as quite a bit of specialised training.

The helium alone would cost a fair bit I'd imagine.

Alexidium

Jimoslimos wrote: »

In fairness, even watching live with the 10 minute time delay once he stepped out you kinda knew it was going to go to plan. Otherwise it would have been pulled by then.

Was it not a 20 second delay?

WIZE

i think its going to be weather world records are broken . sound barrier is a must . We know the freefall record wasnt broken

Alexidium

Does anyone have any information how much Felix got from this whole thing? I doubt he done it for just the record? I'm not sure, anyone?

Jimoslimos

Alexidium wrote: »

Was it not a 20 second delay?

I heard it was 10 minutes, might be mistaken though

omahaid

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Did I just see someone move an Alien through the press conference :eek:

I'd say it was this guy

http://i.imgur.com/RJBmR.jpg

so he didn't manage to break the sound barrier then?

omahaid

glasso wrote: »

so he didn't manage to break the sound barrier then?

I think he did, article isnt too clear

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/skydiver-baumgartner-breaks-record-for-highest-ever-parachute-jump-8206637.html

WIZE

glasso wrote: »

so he didn't manage to break the sound barrier then?

we dont know yet

ScrubsfanChris

omahaid wrote: »

I'd say it was this guy

http://i.imgur.com/RJBmR.jpg

That was him alright :pac:

Dodd

Jimoslimos wrote: »

I heard it was 10 minutes, might be mistaken though

When the balloon was going up and the commentator was quite I turned the sound right up and heard a women talking.
One thing she said was 20 second delay.

Jimoslimos

Dodd wrote: »

When the balloon was going up and the commentator was quite I turned the sound right up and heard a women talking.
One thing she said was 20 second delay.

Yeah, I must have heard wrong. Don't know where I got 10 minutes from.

TouchingVirus

One of the most magnificent things I've ever watched on TV. Glued to the box for 3 hours and I let out a whoop when we spoke the last words and dropped out of the sky. And the bit after he landed when he collapsed onto his knees was incredibly powerful.

As a friend of mine said on Facebook - this was our man on the moon moment

nocoverart

TouchingVirus wrote: »

One of the most magnificent things I've ever watched on TV. Glued to the box for 3 hours and I let out a whoop when we spoke the last words and dropped out of the sky. And the bit after he landed when he collapsed onto his knees was incredibly powerful.

As a friend of mine said on Facebook - this was our man on the moon moment

****! we got the short end of the straw then

ScrubsfanChris

Looks like press conference starting soon...

WIZE

Cameras are live again

http://www.youtube.com/user/redbull

munchkin_utd

WIZE wrote: »

we dont know yet

yup

they are working on the data to see if the sound barrier's been broken at the temperatures and pressure that was experienced on the way down as its different up there than on the ground.
Strange its taking so long though. They had a white module from his suit as he jot out of the recovery helicopter that had all the measurements so you would have thought it'd be reasonably straight forward to process that.

Oh, in the interview with austrian tv he mentioned that he didnt know himself and that if there was a bang then it would happen behind him anyhow so that was expected.

scudzilla

TouchingVirus wrote: »

One of the most magnificent things I've ever watched on TV. Glued to the box for 3 hours and I let out a whoop when we spoke the last words and dropped out of the sky. And the bit after he landed when he collapsed onto his knees was incredibly powerful.

As a friend of mine said on Facebook - this was our man on the moon moment

nocoverart wrote: »

****! we got the short end of the straw then

Ours happened, a faked moon landing in an Area 51 Warehouse doesn't count

ctrl-alt-delete

Rte have him as piercing the atmosphere at speeds topping 11kph, phenomenal

ScrubsfanChris

833mph

Mach 1.24 ...........he did it!

jd007

833 mph!!:eek:

WIZE

833 mph mach 1.24

GLaDOS

He broke the speed of sound! Mach 1.24 I think it was

BorneTobyWilde

over 800 miles per hour
mach 1.24