Felix Bamgartner arises after a jump of 38 km

Roswell – The Austrian Felix Baumgartner perhaps became Sunday the first man to cross the wall of sound in free fall, during one his jump done from a capsule over 38 km of altitude above Roswell, in the United States. Even if the measures still needed to be confirmed officially, it probably became Sunday the first man to exceed the sound barrier (Mach 1, approximately 1110 km/h at that altitude) for fall speed record free inmate by Joe Kittinger, who had reached 988 km/h or Mach 0.9, in 1960. Felix Baumgartner already beat the record for the highest freefall ever jump, overtaking again Joe Kittinger, who had jumped from an altitude of 31 kilometres in 1960. The former paratrooper’s army of 43 years old, dressed in a suit, raced in a vacuum from his capsule mounted at 38.6 km altitude. Contact with the capsule at the time would have risky to rip his suit and expose them to a lack of oxygen and temperatures of up to-57 degrees. Four minutes of free fall
After more than four minutes of free fall, he opened his parachute and landed in the desert of the New-Mexico, standing, before lifting the arms in triumph. It had passed about nine minutes since his jump into the void. Less than three hours earlier, the Austrian departed aboard his capsule pressurized, which had begun its ascent into the stratosphere, led by a helium balloon. At the request of Felix Baumgartner, 30 cameras were following the event. Internet retransmission, presented as the direct, was in fact a slight delay of 20 seconds. Originally scheduled Monday and Tuesday, attempting to jump had been cancelled and moved twice because of strong winds. Saturday, the teams that accompany the athlete had indicated that weather conditions appeared favorable. Felix Baumgartner was preparing to this feat five years. “Fearless Felix” (“fearless Felix”) had already attempted a jump of 24 kilometers high in March and 28,97 kilometers high in July.

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