Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. A balloon is unpowered and moves with the wind. Do we have historical data on the wind speed at the various altitudes in this region for the day Baumgartner accomplished his jump?
I'll look into it. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. More in a bit. Update 1: Baumgartner is on his way up now. The jump will happen. He's been ascending for about thirty minutes, which puts the actual jump time at around p.
Tune in below:. Original: It's looking like daredevil parachutist Felix Baumgartner will get his chance to attempt to break the record for the highest sky dive ever today and the whole thing is going to be broadcast live on Youtube. Baumgartner came close to attempting the jump on Tuesday, but windy weather stopped him from making the ascent. Baumgartner is currently suited up and waiting inside the capsule of his custom-made, story hot air balloon. Once the weather is right, he will ascend more than , feet above the Earth, before jumping out and falling more than , feet in five-and-a-half minutes.
He will become the first human to ever break the sound barrier without the help of a jet airplane. After just over nine minutes, the former Austrian paratrooper landed in the New Mexico desert, having become the first man to break the speed of sound in a freefall. I had enough. With millions of people around the world watching live on television and online, Baumgartner went for it, and went into a violent spin early in the jump.
He regained control, to the relief of his team. He had about 40 seconds to stop the spinning, which was captured on video from a camera in his suit. His team identified 16 key risks that had to all be overcome for the record attempt to succeed. They included ultraviolet radiation, wind shear, landing impact, extreme temperatures, hypoxia oxygen starvation , decompression sickness, entering a flat spin during the descent, "shock-shock interaction" an explosive effect when shock waves in the air collide when passing through the sound barrier and fire aboard the capsule.
But the team said two dangers hung over Baumgartner above all others — a "breach" in the suit or capsule, and the accidental deployment of a parachute. Given that he reached a height of 24 miles above the surface of the Earth, it seems remarkable that he was able to land with such accuracy back on the desert floor in New Mexico. His team later confirmed that his landing site was just 23 miles from where the balloon had taken off several hours earlier.
Unlike an astronaut, Baumgartner remained within the Earth's atmosphere so never experienced the planet rotating underneath him as witnessed by anyone actually in orbit. His team waited for the perfect weather conditions when high-altitude winds that might have caused his balloon to drift were at a minimum.
Once he exited his free-fall by deploying his parachute, Baumgartner was able to "steer" himself to a preferred landing spot. A beacon inside his suit meant his recovery helicopter was able to closely follow him. I'll fight fires and rescue people. No e-mails, no phone calls.
How long will it be before every Tom, Dick and Harry adventure-seeker is queuing up to do this?
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