nothin2seehere Posted 15 October 2012 Posted 15 October 2012 TBH when I saw him in the tumble I thought there would be serious trouble. Tumbling at that speed is going to produce g-forces enough to make someone black out...goodness only knows what would have happened then. Amazed that he managed to stabilise his flight so quickly and cleanly without problems. Apparently there was a system fitted to his suit that, if sufficient G-Force was generated for greater than 6 seconds, something would have deployed to attempt to counter the spin automatically, on the proviso that Felix was blacked out and couldn't do it himself.
Guest Posted 15 October 2012 Posted 15 October 2012 Is there anything easier to do than falling from a great height?
Babylon Posted 15 October 2012 Posted 15 October 2012 Is there anything easier to do than falling from a great height? Not falling from a great height.
StanSP Posted 15 October 2012 Posted 15 October 2012 View from Felix released... http://www.liveleak....=fa1_1350274678
Vacamion Posted 15 October 2012 Posted 15 October 2012 View from Felix released... http://www.liveleak....=fa1_1350274678 Nice. That doesn't look like the full extent of the spinning around we could see from the outside, though. I thought he went "arse over tit" [scientific parlance] a bit more violently than we could see in that footage. Austrian accents are amusing, btw...
StanSP Posted 15 October 2012 Posted 15 October 2012 Nice. That doesn't look like the full extent of the spinning around we could see from the outside, though. I thought he went "arse over tit" [scientific parlance] a bit more violently than we could see in that footage. Austrian accents are amusing, btw... Yeah same. Perhaps that little clip doesn't do all that crazy spinning much justice. It looked a hell of a lot more dramatic on the streams we watched! Apparently Felix is a claustrophobic - more testament then to what he achieved going up in that small pod and doing so for over 2 hours!
Fox in the North Posted 15 October 2012 Posted 15 October 2012 Feck that, it might look slow on camera but if that was me in that suit, i'd be bricking it.
Libertine Dream Posted 15 October 2012 Posted 15 October 2012 View from Felix released... http://www.liveleak....=fa1_1350274678 Disappointed they haven't released the full fall from his perspective.
marko Posted 15 October 2012 Author Posted 15 October 2012 Disappointed they haven't released the full fall from his perspective. I guess that will be for the BBC documentary in about a month.
21st Century Fox Posted 17 October 2012 Posted 17 October 2012 Felix prophetically drew himself parachuting to Earth aged 5!!! I hope that sketch I did of a gorilla raping me when I was 6 doesn't come back to haunt me.
Guest Posted 17 October 2012 Posted 17 October 2012 Felix prophetically drew himself parachuting to Earth aged 5!!! I hope that sketch I did of a gorilla raping me when I was 6 doesn't come back to haunt me.
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