Saw this early last year (or at least the same guy doing the same thing). Not really a flight suit yet so much as a guided fall. You still can’t achieve elevation so if you misjudge your are toast.
That said, really cool to watch and way more daring than I.
Express elevator to hell, going down.
This guy wants to jump from SPACE!
He says “In the first 30 seconds…He will break the speed of sound”
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1439071521001/daredevil-to-attempt-hypersonic-jump-from-space
Catch up to you sooner to later. That stuff and other sports all has a price. Might not pay it the first 100 times but that 101st go just might have a high price.
At least they are kind enough to tape it for us to watch…
Joseph Kittinger Jr. beat him to it over 50 years ago. . .
Stupid: Probably.
Freakin awesome: Definitely.
Just watching the footage from his head cam is beyond description! Screaming through that gap has got to be one hell of a rush! I’d like to do it sometime but in a wide open setting.
I pooped just watching the video.
I don’t think Kittinger broke the sound barrier.
Joe Kittinger is one of the most supremely awesome and fascinating human being I’ve ever met. His life stories would put astronauts to shame. It’s not just one thing either, it’s the multitude incredible events. Racing boats as a teenager, Project Man-High and Stargazer, flying Invaders with 1st Air Commando, then flying Phantoms and making a Mig kill, and lastly being a leader in perhaps the harshest environment any American officer has ever found himself, Hanoi Hilton. I own his autobiography, but he actually left significant chunks of his life out. Were a biography of him to be written it would have to be a couple volumes.
In days of yore epics were written about men like him.
And the dude in the video: Sure, he’s been injured doing what he loves to do, but it’s men like him filled with daring-do that moves humanity forward. People said the same things of aviation and automotive pioneers.
ETA: This man must also be very strong, keeping your arms and legs in attitude during free fall is difficult enough, but adding all the extra force from the airfoil, and controlling it? Wow.
True, I was referring to skydiving from space.
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/aerodynamics/q0243.shtml
I ordered a flying man suit today. It’ll be here in a couple of weeks. I’ll let you know how it works out.
Good because I just ordered some balloons! 