'Fearless Felix' Falls 24 Miles To Earth

'Fearless Felix' Falls 24 Miles To Earth

www.wired.com

He did it.

Felix Baumgartner broke the speed of sound during his stratospheric leap from 128,097 feet on Sunday and landed safely 9 minutes and 3 seconds later, touching down so gracefully that he made the whole thing look easy. He fell to his knees and raised his fists as his family, hundreds of people supporting his mission and, no doubt, the millions of people watching worldwide via the Internet cheered.

It was awesome, in every sense of the word.

The Austrian adventurer reached an unofficial speed of 834 mph — Mach 1.24 — as he fell 119,846 feet during a free fall of 4 minutes

(visit the link for the full news article)


Related News Links:
news.yahoo.com
www.itwire.com

Related AboveTopSecret.com Discussion Threads:
The man who's going to jump 23 miles to Earth this week
Watch a man jump off the edge of space - live!

*Sorry if this has been put up. Searched didn't really find anything that was current.*

This is pretty awesome. Fearless Felix broke 3 of 4 records he was going after and also its 24 miles!!

I am afraid of heights so I couldn't even fathom doing it. But I know people that are thrill seeks and would prolly sky dive, but 24 miles is a long ways out.

Great story.

-SAP-

www.wired.com
(visit the link for the full news article)

-SAP-

I just searched for the keyword Felix and was inundated with 21,000+ results.

reply to post by OccamAssassin


Yeah I did about a minute ago and found 16,000+. I was searching with more keywords last time.

It'll be shut down.

-SAP-

Posted earlier here
www.abovetopsecret.com...

Please add further comments to the ongoing discussion in the above linked thread.
Thanks

**Thread Closed**