Skydiver gets ready for 23 mile jump

[August]

Airborne All The Way!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by August

Airborne All The Way!

And he will be.

At least we hope it turns out that way.

[kiwi_2005]

That will be one hell of a rush!

[Krauter]

I wonder, how do parachutes resist the "impact" of drastically slowing a man at terminal velocity when he opens his canopy?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Krauter

I wonder, how do parachutes resist the "impact" of drastically slowing a man at terminal velocity when he opens his canopy?

Here's the perfect explanation to that question, and it ties in perfectly with the current topic.
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/JianHuang.shtml

I wonder, how do parachutes resist the "impact" of drastically slowing a man at terminal velocity when he opens his canopy?

I wonder with the higher start and the lower deployment, how severe is that impact coing to be?

[antikristuseke]

Surely he is going to use a multiple stage parachute like Kettinger did

[Osmium Steele]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

I wonder with the higher start and the lower deployment, how severe is that impact coing to be?

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.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

No worse than any other. It will be no difference than if he jumped at 6000 feet and pulled the cord at 5000. The drag is all the same.

Iirc you are still accelerating after 1000', but not for much.