Felix Baumgartner Superfraud

zimo · Oct 15, 2012

[video=youtube;HXOcYExulKk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXOcYExulKk[/video]

If you watch the first half of the video they are clearly dangling a cotton swab ten feet from a camera with a black screen. He just jumped out of a helicopter at 5,000 feet. I call shenanigans.

waltky · Oct 15, 2012

Baumgartner Broke the Sound Barrier...

Skydiver breaks sound barrier in record jump
Oct 14, 2012 - Parachute has deployed, daredevil headed back to Earth

In a giant leap from more than 24 miles up, a daredevil skydiver shattered the sound barrier Sunday while making the highest jump ever - a tumbling, death-defying plunge from a balloon to a safe landing in the New Mexico desert. Felix Baumgartner hit Mach 1.24, or 833.9 mph, according to preliminary data, and became the first person to reach supersonic speed without traveling in a jet or a spacecraft after hopping out of a capsule that had reached an altitude of 128,100 feet above the Earth.

Landing on his feet in the desert, the man known as "Fearless Felix" lifted his arms in victory to the cheers of jubilant friends and spectators who closely followed his descent in a live television feed at the command center "When I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble, you do not think about breaking records anymore, you do not think about gaining scientific data," he said after the jump. "The only thing you want is to come back alive."

A worldwide audience watched live on the Internet via cameras mounted on his capsule as Baumgartner, wearing a pressurized suit, stood in the doorway of his pod, gave a thumbs-up and leapt into the stratosphere. "Sometimes we have to get really high to see how small we are," an exuberant Baumgartner told reporters outside mission control after the jump.

Baumgartner's descent lasted just over nine minutes, about half of it in a free fall of 119,846 feet, according to Brian Utley, a jump observer from the FAI, an international group that works to determine and maintain the integrity of aviation records. He said the speed calculations were preliminary figures. During the first part of Baumgartner's free fall, anxious onlookers at the command center held their breath as he appeared to spin uncontrollably. "When I was spinning first 10, 20 seconds, I never thought I was going to lose my life but I was disappointed because I'm going to lose my record. I put seven years of my life into this," he said.

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zimo · Oct 15, 2012

waltky said: ↑

Baumgartner Broke the Sound Barrier...

Skydiver breaks sound barrier in record jump
Oct 14, 2012 - Parachute has deployed, daredevil headed back to Earth
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Did you watch the video?

Captain America · Oct 15, 2012

Oh yes. Clearly! <snicker>

zimo · Oct 15, 2012

Captain America said: ↑

Oh yes. Clearly! <snicker>
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His "jump" was clearly just a lifeless dummy being shoved out. Look at how motionless "he" is in the video.

Captain America · Oct 15, 2012

Clearly a lifeless dummy.

politicalcenter · Oct 15, 2012

Yea and what a scam it was. It involved Red Bull, Nasa, the previous record holder, the space suit designers, and many other members of the scientific community.

Seen Elvis lately?

zimo · Oct 15, 2012

politicalcenter said: ↑

Yea and what a scam it was. It involved Red Bull, Nasa, the previous record holder, the space suit designers, and many other members of the scientific community.

Seen Elvis lately?
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Now that you mention it, it wasn't a dummy. Elvis jumped from the pod. This is how he decided to make his comeback. The stunt also involved the JFK, 9-11 conspirators and aliens somehow. I haven't figured it all out yet.

cjm2003ca · Oct 15, 2012

i watched it liVe and i saw it was obama that jumped..reason i know this is when they asked him questions he just said um um um and then nothing...obama tried to kill himself and failed at that too..

waltky · Feb 5, 2013

Faster than a speeding bullet...

Fearless Felix fell to Earth reaching Mach 1.25: report
Wed, Feb 06, 2013 - Supersonic Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner was faster than he or anyone else thought during his record-setting jump in October last year from 38km up.

The parachutist known as Fearless Felix reached 1,357kph, according to official numbers released on Monday. That is equivalent to Mach 1.25, or 1.25 times the speed of sound. His top speed initially was estimated at 16kph slower at 1,342kph, or Mach 1.24. Either way, he became the first human to break the sound barrier with only his body. He wore a pressurized suit and hopped from a capsule hoisted by a giant helium balloon over New Mexico. Baumgartner was supersonic for a half-minute quite remarkable, according to Brian Utley, the record-keeping official who was present for the feat on Oct. 14 last year. The 43-year-olds heart rate remained below 185 beats a minute and his breathing was fairly steady.

The leap was from an altitude of 38,969m. That is 75m lower than original estimates, but still stratospheric. He jumped from a little bit lower, but he actually went a little bit faster, which was pretty exciting, said Art Thompson, technical project director for the Red Bull-sponsored project. Its fun for us to see reaching Mach speeds and proving out a lot of the safety systems, Thompson said in a phone interview from his aerospace company in Lancaster, California. Thompson said everything pretty much unfolded as anticipated, with no big surprises in the final report. The updated records were provided by Utley, official observer for the National Aeronautic Associations contest and records board. Utley was in Roswell, New Mexico, for Baumgartners grand finale following two test jumps.

Based on all the data collected from sensors on Baumgartners suit, Utley determined that Baumgartner was 34 seconds into his jump when he reached Mach 1. The speed for breaking the sound barrier depends on the temperature at a given altitude; for Baumgartner, that came together just shy of 33,528m. He reached peak speed by the time he was at 27,800m, 50 seconds into the jump, and was back to subsonic by 23,000m, give or take, 64 seconds into his free fall. His entire free fall lasted four minutes, 20 seconds. He used a parachute to cover the final 1,500m, landing on his feet in the desert outside Roswell.

Not everything went well. Baumgartner went into a dreaded flat spin while still supersonic. He spun for 13 seconds at approximately 60 revolutions per minute, making 14 to 16 spins before using his body to regain control, Thompson said. The skydiver was well within safety limits the entire time, he added. Baumgartners brain remained under 2G, or two times the force of gravity, during the spin.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2013/02/06/2003554383
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