Red Bull Stratos Post Jump Press Conference (HD)

YouTube ^ | October 14, 2012 | Uploaded by Antony Levendi

[EveningStar]

Red Bull Stratos Post Jump Press Conference. Felix Baumgartner completed his jump and set a new world record for the highest skydive and breaking the sound barrier. In this press conference he answers questions about his experience.

[RightFighter]

That’s why I said it’s from the Handbook of Missed Marketing Opportunities.

[NonZeroSum]

Speed of sound is primarily a function of temperature. It’s cold up there.

[CORedneck]

Watched it this morning. Pretty cool !

[Tijeras_Slim]

Felix and Joe...

That’s how men should be.

[Vince Ferrer]

[a fool in paradise]

I spent the morning recording it, cannot wait to see any video if there was taken from his perspective.

I like experiments with more scientific applications.

ENGLISHRUSSIA: Some guys decided to arrange a strange competition between dark and light beer: which one will fly higher to space?

More pictures and descriptions at the link above.

[a fool in paradise]

That was BEAUTIFUL!! And his landing was 1-2-3-4 steps - all upright! Better than a perfect gymnastics landing in the Olympics! (From my perspective...)

[Lazamataz]

Jeb ain't no slouch, neither.

[Daffynition]

FWIW this is coincidentally the 65th anniversary of Chuck Yeager's flight.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I watched it on the C-SPAM link a FReeper provided. When he stepped off the capsule, the camera was pointed downward toward the earth. He fell very, very fast off the platform.

[True Republican Patriot]

I believe Felix was traveling down much faster than anyone had traveled before, far exceeding the Speed of Sound by a couple of hundred MPH! If he had tried to exceed the Free Fall Time Record, he may well have gone “SPLAT!”

[True Republican Patriot]

As an ME Student, did much research with Supersonic Blowdown Wind Tunnels. Forgotten most of the formulas now,
but the Spped of Sound dramatically decreases as pressure and temperature decreases. I do believe the lates calculations are that Felix exceeded 840 MPH before starting to decelerate.

[True Republican Patriot]

While temperature has an effect, the ruling factor is the extremely low pressures which inhibit the propagation of Sound. Was always amazed at how slow the speed of sound was
in that Blowdown Wind Tunnel, especially when we went to the high Mach Numbers then of a mere 3 or 4 back then! Never appreciated how much that experience and Research were! Wonder how high a Mach Number present day Wind Tunnels go too? Probably Hypersonic Numbers One can’t fathom!

[True Republican Patriot]

No Coincidence! in my humble mind!

Hats off to Chuck Yeager! A Real American Hero! and he did it with a broken arm he susttained the night before riding a Horse after “Just a Few Drinks at their local Watering Hole in that GOD Forsaken Desert Airfield!