Records Parachute

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a jumper in venezuela parachute on back


on august 16, 1960, joseph kittinger, in excelsior iii test jump, set previous world record highest parachute jump. jumped balloon @ altitude of 102,800 feet (31,333 m) (which manned balloon altitude record @ time). small stabilizer chute deployed successfully, , kittinger fell 4 minutes , 36 seconds, setting still-standing world record longest parachute free-fall, if falling stabilizer chute counted free-fall. @ altitude of 17,500 feet (5,300 m), kittinger opened main chute , landed safely in new mexico desert. whole descent took 13 minutes , 45 seconds. during descent, kittinger experienced temperatures low −94 °f (−70 °c). in free-fall stage, reached top speed of 614 mph (988 km/h or 274 m/s), or mach 0.8.


felix baumgartner broke joseph kittinger s record on october 14, 2012, jump altitude of 127,852 feet (38,969.3 m) , reaching speeds 833.9 mph (1,342.0 km/h or 372.8 m/s), or mach 1.1. kittinger advisor baumgartner s jump.


alan eustace made jump stratosphere on october 24, 2014 altitude of 135,889.108 feet (41,419 m). however, because eustace s jump involved drogue parachute while baumgartner s did not, vertical speed , free fall distance records remain in different record categories.


according guinness world records, yevgeni nikolayevich andreyev (soviet union) held official fai record longest free-fall parachute jump (without drogue chute) after falling 24,500 m (80,380 ft) altitude of 25,457 m (83,523 ft) near city of saratov, russia on november 1, 1962, until broken felix baumgartner in 2012.








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