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He wants to drop from 120,000 feet and check parachute at 5,000 feet. Is this guy nuts or what? Current record is from 102,000 feet by USAF Col. Joe Kettinger in 1960.
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That will be one hell of a rush!
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I wonder, how do parachutes resist the "impact" of drastically slowing a man at terminal velocity when he opens his canopy?
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Surely he is going to use a multiple stage parachute like Kettinger did
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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.
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Also, does the person feel any shock from the opening of a shute at such a velocity? And how does that feel/how does one deal with that?
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Can we move on from skydiving - I've done it (slightly lower than 23 miles), I can't afford to do it now but still want, want, want!
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