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Originally Posted by Tribesman
I wonder with the higher start and the lower deployment, how severe is that impact coing to be?
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He'll actually slow down as he descends into the thicker atmosphere.
By the time his chute deploys, he'll be going no faster than if he'd jumped from an airplane.
The multiple drogue chutes Kittinger used were not to slow the descent, a very common misperception, but to eliminate the chance of a blackout inducing spin. He almost died during a test jump in '59 from such a spin.
From everything I've read, Baumgartner thinks he can maintain control using hands, feet and legs like any other dive, and has no intention of utilizing a drogue chute to maintain control. We'll see.