When is felix going to jump

Ok - this seems to be a possible explanation. What if I change the ending height for the k jump to 2, feet instead of the reported 8, feet? That would increase the free fall time to 4 minutes and 30 seconds. Just for fun, here is a plot of free fall time vs. This says what most people would think. Higher starting positions have longer free fall times. That still doesn't give the correct free fall time for Joe Kittinger's record setting free fall time.

Even if he did fall to a lower altitude, I don't get the correct time. There is something else that could matter: mass. If Felix had more gear with him, or even a different shaped space suit, this could lead to different effects from air resistance.

Let me just start with mass. Here is a plot of the free fall time from , feet to 3, feet I think 2, feet was too low as a function of jumper mass. So, by reducing the mass of the jumper down to 70 kg I get a free fall time around 5 minutes. Of course, I kept the drag coefficient and the cross sectional area of the jumper constant. Perhaps this could be the reason that Felix didn't break the free fall time record.

It could be that Joe had a different mass or maybe a different drag coefficient that could lead to a different time. This would increase his drag and decrease his speed.

Rhett Allain is an associate professor of physics at Southeastern Louisiana University. A Hall of Fame aviator, Felix Baumgartner, from Austria, has always felt at home in the sky and is constantly challenging his limits. From skydiving and BASE jumping to free-falling from space and now aerobatic helicopter flying, Felix Baumgartner can do it all. In , after years of dedicated training, the Austrian received his aerobatic helicopter pilot wings in the USA and performed in his first air show above Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas.

Flying helicopters is a lifelong lesson, you never stop learning. It completes a remarkable transformation from the boy who began skydiving at the age of 16, honing his skills as part of the Austrian military's demonstration and competition team.

His winged freefall across the English Channel in was unprecedented and in he successfully completed the extreme sports event of this century with his Red Bull Stratos jump from the edge of space, which was seen by millions worldwide. Felix was in free fall for 4m 22s and reached an estimated speed of Holiday Handbook: Browse shopping deals, recipes, tips for gathering safely and more.

After ascending , feet above the earth in a helium balloon on Oct. After just over nine minutes, the former Austrian paratrooper landed in the New Mexico desert, having become the first man to break the speed of sound in a freefall.

I had enough. With millions of people around the world watching live on television and online, Baumgartner went for it, and went into a violent spin early in the jump. He regained control, to the relief of his team. He had about 40 seconds to stop the spinning, which was captured on video from a camera in his suit.