![]() ![]() At launch the helium-filled balloon is 55 stories high, and very thin. Polyester-fiber tape is used to reinforce the material. 0008-inches (0.02mm, 20 micron) thick, the balloon material would cover nearly 2,000,000 square feet (162,000 square meters). Made out of strips of plastic film which are only. Red Bull describes its Stratos balloon as a forty-acre dry cleaning bag. ![]() Additional, one-time-use crush pads of cell-paper honeycomb can withstand up to 8Gs on impact.Ī lifetime of dry cleaning, all in one bag An aluminum honeycomb at the bottom of the capsule protects the sphere during landing. An outer insulated shell of fiberglass helps protect the capsule from the -70 degree Fahrenheit (-56.7C) temperatures. Much like a race car cockpit, the sphere is surrounded by a cage of chromium-molybdenum (chromoly steel) tubing. ![]() During the ascent, the sphere is pressurized to 8 psi, about the same pressure as the atmosphere at 16,000 feet above sea level. Similar to Cameron’s sub, the capsule features a pressure sphere, although a six foot one made out of fiberglass and epoxy instead of the four foot version made from metal that Cameron needed. It was damaged in a hard landing during a test jump in July, which pushed the team’s schedule back to allow for repairs. His 2,900-pound (1315kg) capsule is fully climate controlled. The journey up was the cushy part of the flight for Baumgartner. Capsule damage during a training jump and poor wind conditions took turns delaying the effort, but today, Sunday, October 14th, 2012, Baumgartner was finally able to launch. The Red Bull Stratos team backing Baumgartner describes their feat as a “mission to the edge of space.” Years in the planning, the team has gone through many iterations of equipment and practice jumps before finally being ready to make the record-setting attempt from Roswell, New Mexico. ![]() On this dive he broke not only the previous altitude record of 102,000 feet for a skydive, but likely the speed of sound and the record for fastest free fall during his descent. He is an accomplished BASE jumper and, using a carbon wing, was the first to free fall across the English Channel. In an almost unimaginable stunt, the 43-year old Austrian has jumped from a specially constructed balloon at over 128,000 feet (39km) above the earth, breaking the world record for high-altitude skydives and speeds in free fall. As you would expect, Baumgartner is no stranger to extreme sports. Daredevil Felix Baumgartner just became the first man to accomplish the same feat without a plane - or indeed any assistance at all. Hypothetical scenario 2, we have a moving earth, and air above it, moving at the same speed as the earth, and an aircraft also moving at that same speed, so the aircraft is not moving in relation neither to air or the earth looking at it from the ground aircraft appears to hover over earth in calm air.Sixty five years ago today, Captain Charles Yeager became the first man to travel faster than the speed of sound in his X-1 aircraft. I assume we can agree on that? See, I assume a lot =D This is because he has momentum, he is moving in same direction and at same speed as the aircraft until some force makes that change (aerodynamic drag and gravity/ua/magic/just falling down/whatever it is that makes things fall down in this scenario). Just as he jumps, what is the motion of the skydiver in relation to aircraft and in relation to earth? I say, in relation to earth his movement is the same as that of the aircraft and by magic or otherwise he's not moving anywhere in relation to the aircraft until he a) starts to fall downwards b) aerodynamic drag from the non-moving air slows down his 100kph sideways speed. Through the air, moves an aircraft at 100kph, and a skydiver hops off that aircraft. Just for sake of discussion, let's have a hypothetical scenario: we have earth, not moving anywhere, and air above it, not moving anywhere. ![]()
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