Felix is on his way up - live feed.

[RedToo]

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/14/felix-baumgartner-supersonic-skydive/

RedToo.

[Kupsised]

Thanks for the heads up. Is there any idea of what time he might actually be jumping? (He's 36,000 at the moment, I think he's supposed to jump about 121,000?)

[RedToo]

Something like one and a half to two hours I think. I may be wrong though. :)

RedToo.

[Kupsised]

I just crunched the numbers a bit and got a similar answer. He's travelling about 10mph upwards by my maths. Does anyone who can do science know if he'll speed up the further up he gets?

[lensman1945]

Brilliant!

thanks for the heads-up:grin:

[Trumper]

http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/ as well ,did they just say there's a problem with his facemask?

[bongodriver]

I think it's just the heating for the helmet visor but to be honest it looks as if it still is staying clear, I don't see it being a mission abort.

[Kupsised]

I think it's just the heating for the helmet visor but to be honest it looks as if it still is staying clear, I don't see it being a mission abort.

Yep, he's jumping

[Kupsised]

So, by my maths, he gets the world record for highest and fastest jump, but not the speed of sound and not the longest freefall. Either way, hopefully the data might prove helpful to someone

[JG26_EZ]

Can you say "Deathwish"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fHSF07us68

[5./JG27.Farber]

I read on the internet this jump was done before...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger

and mostly it was a PR stunt for Redbull...

The Kittinger jump was a bigger deal because nobody had ever jumped before from so high... and according to some things I read about about the red bull jumper he has jumped in riskier sitiuations before... "This was a piece of cake"...