Monday, October 15, 2012

Daredevil’s jump from space offers more than entertainment




Viewers on the ground looking at the little silvery dot falling from 38 kilometres above could see that Felix Baumgartner was tumbling at one point.
Basking afterward in the success of his record-breaking Mach 1.24 jump, the Austrian parachutist said that, indeed, he had to fight his way out of a spin as he dropped to Earth at a speed that reached a maximum of 373 metres per second.

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