Felix Baumgartner News: Roswell, New Mexico - Felix Baumgartner, a professional daredevil, flew into the stratosphere, Sunday through a huge helium balloon that slowly carried through the critical first - 4000ft called Dead Zone, because it would be impossible to escape parachute. It reached 40,000 feet in 34 minutes, and should continue to grow at more than 120,000 feet - 22 miles above the desert of New Mexico - where he hoped to make a jump in history and become the first diver sky to break the speed of sound. The ascent, which is posted on the Internet, must be at least two hours.During the ascent, Mr. Baumgartner through the checklist by Joe Kittinger, 84, a retired colonel of Air Force, which in 1960 amounted to 102,800 feet, setting records that were more than half a century - and hoped that Mr. Baumgartner break.
"Make sure you stay hydrated, Felix," Mr. Kittinger said capsule rose above 22,000 feet. "You do a lot of it to the task."Mission requires the largest balloon ever used for human spaceflight. Made of plastic ultra-thin 40 acres, it has been described as a bag of dry cleaning excessive fill the Los Angeles Coliseum.
When inflated and attached to a pressurized cabin, M. Baumgartner, the ball rises 750 feet above the ground. Winds at this level and in the field should be at least three miles per hour in order to be done safely, there was no chance of a hot air balloon swaying and rupture of the capsule in the ground.
Mr. Baumgartner, wearing a suit under pressure to survive in the vacuum near the limit of space, is expected to leave the capsule above 120.000 feet and quickly break the sound barrier, reaching a speed of 700 km / h. It is expected that the free fall for five and a half minutes before deploying his parachute km above the earth.Mr. Baumgartner was supported by the management style of the NASA mission work at the airport in Roswell, which involved 300 people, including more than 70 engineers, scientists and physicians working for five years on a Red Bull Stratos project called after drinking the business it supports.
When you create a bespoke suit and capsules, aerospace veteran team had to deal with considerable uncertainty: What happens in the body when it breaks the sound barrier? There was also a major unexpected, M. Baumgartner, 43, an Austrian daredevil and former paratrooper known to his fans as Fearless Felix.Although he had no problem jumping buildings and bridges crossing the Channel in a carbon fiber wing, he found suffering from panic attacks when they are forced to spend hours in a pressure suit and a helmet. At one point in 2010, rather than a test of strength in it, he went to the airport and fled to the United States. With the help of a sports psychologist and other experts, he learns techniques to cope with claustrophobia.Besides the fact that his most difficult task, stratospheric jump is most likely to be transformed into a buddy movie, his friendship he developed with Mr. Kittinger, who trained Mr. Baumgartner.
Mr. Kittinger, a former test pilot make records in 1960, a journey into the stratosphere. Early in the climb, and New Mexico, ballooning, one of his gloves to escape pressure, but he was so determined to continue, he did not report the problem, even after his swollen hand twice with normal size.
Ignoring the pain, he went to the ball at 102,800 feet, and said a short prayer - "Lord, take care of me now," - before leaving. He reached a speed of 614 miles per hour and spent 4 minutes, 36 seconds in freefall. these recordings were repeatedly challenged during the next half-century, sometimes with fatal consequences.
Also is intended for engineers and scientists to record the Red Bull Stratos team collected a wealth of data and publications to help pilots, astronauts and space tourists could survive if they have help.
"We test new suits, flight concepts and protocols for the loss of pressure at high altitude," said Red Bull Stratos Medical Director Dr. Jonathan Clark, who has overseen the health of the crew of the shuttle NASA space. "There are so many things that can go wrong, relying on the technical envelope."Original stratospheric jump Mr. Kittinger was part of the Air Force to explore ways to help pilots survive a rescue tall. He experimented with a small parachute called a drogue to prevent the body from moving in the spin dab - the danger that almost killed Mr. Kittinger jump forward in 1959. When her braking parachute tangled around his neck, his body turned at 120 revolutions per minute, making it dimmer until his parachute deployed automatically. This improved version of the braking parachute currently used by military pilots have to bail out the ejection seats are used by pilots.
Mr. Baumgartner was equipped with its own individual high-tech braking parachute, but as a precautionary measure - is activated only when he began to spiral out of control. Otherwise, it should be avoided because the parachute would it slow enough to prevent supersonic.
To avoid out of control, Mr. Baumgartner practiced to Bunny Hop out of the capsule and to control his body so that it is turned upside down in the supersonic descent.
"We try to anticipate possible to supersonic speed," said Dr. Clark before you leap ", but we do not really know, because nobody has done that before."
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