THE ROYCROFT REPORT

Current Events & Opinion

First Head Cam Video of Felix Baumgartner Supersonic Space Jump Falling At Mach 1.24

with one comment

October 15, 2012 – Here is video of the actual jump and near out of control spin as Felix Baumgartner becomes the first man on earth to break the speed of sound as he dives to earth at 834 M.P.H.

VIDEO

“There was a time I really thought I was in trouble. I had to decide to fight all the way down and I finally got stable.

That spin became so violent it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and break the speed of sound.

I could feel myself break the speed of sound. I could feel the air building up and then I hit it.”*—Felix Baumgartner

About these ads

Written by J Roycroft

10/15/2012 at 1:12 PM

One Response

Subscribe to comments with RSS.

  1. I find this story frightening in a way only a person afraid of heights can be. I admired his ability to do what others might consider to be certain death.


Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: