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felix baumgartner
It’s been just over a year since the nail-biter of a day when Felix Baumgartner jumped out of a shimmering weather balloon 38.9km in the air and reached a top speed of Mach 1.25. And now you can watch it from his point of view — and several others.
When Felix Baumgartner leapt from a floating capsule in the stratosphere, plunging 38.6km to the ground, most of us here on Earth were busy thinking “I could never bring myself to do that.” Turns out Baumgartner almost couldn’t either. But it wasn’t exactly the fall that was freaking him out,…
Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking supersonic jump was an amazing feat of human endeavour. But getting Felix to break the speed of sound caused Red Bull Stratos technical project director Art Thompson some engineering headaches. Here’s how he solved them.
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