Broadcast jump from a height of 36 kilometers



    Last week, using our Ivideon service on hi-testing.ru, one could observe the birth of chickens in real time. The guys are great fellows who managed to bring to life the good old tale of Nikolai Nosov. What many probably dreamed of as a child, but never realized when they grew up.

    And now I would like to tell you about the broadcast, which, unfortunately, we are not doing, but which is worth paying attention to.



    It remains just a little before Felix Baumgartner, a skydiver and base jumper from Austria, rises in a specially created balloon to a height of almost 36 kilometers and takes a step into the void!
    He has already become famous for his many colorful BASE jumps. He jumped from the statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur and the skyscraper in Taipei, with a height of 101 floors. He also became the first person to cross the English Channel in a free fall using a carbon wing.



    Its fall rate is expected to reach the speed of sound! This is precisely what he strives for - to set a record for the speed of free fall. This event was preceded by almost a year of preparation and creation of both a means of lifting to such a height and special equipment for jumping.



    For me personally, as a person who jumped from a maximum of 4.5 kilometers and flew down at a speed of no more than 300 km / h, this event looks extremely exciting, complex and, undoubtedly, very dangerous. Felix Baumgartner will land the hero anyway. And you can watch this event now on the official broadcast site !



    UPD: The user of 5araon added that Dietrich Mateschitz, the founder and owner of Red Bull, has invested more than 50 million euros in this project. And in the Austrian newspaper Österreich wrote that Felix will overcome the sound barrier in about 35 seconds after the jump!

    While waiting for the broadcast, you can watch a video about Felix’s previous jumps:



    As beeruser correctly noted , the previous record belongs to Joseph Kittinger, who in 1960 made a jump from an altitude of about 30 km:



    Thanks to the user dotsquid , who pointed out that our compatriot Andreev Evgeny Nikolaevich November 1, 1962 on the Volga stratosphere balloon together with P. I. Dolgov climbed to a height of 25 500 meters and made a parachute jump. He overcame 24,500 meters in free fall at a maximum speed of 900 kilometers per hour. Thus, he set the current world free fall height record, counted by the International Aviation Federation (FAI, Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, FAI).

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