Monday, October 15, 2012

Fearless Felix!

I'm sure most of you have seen this, but do you know what Felix Baumgartner did?  The 43 year old Austrian successfully completed a jump out of a capsule 24 miles (128,100 ft) about the New Mexico desert Sunday!  In doing so, he set the record for the highest human free fall (beating the previous record of 102,800 ft set by Orlando's own Joe Kittinger in 1960).  Baugmgartner became the first skydiver to break the speed of sound without the assistance of a craft.  During his fall, he reached a maximum velocity of 833.9 mph or Mach 1.24!!!


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