Adventure free fall with supersonic speed

Austrian athlete Felix Baumgartner has announced plans to break down the "sound wall" with his . body.

Felix Baumgartner's plan was to bring the balloon to a height of over 36,000 meters, jump down, 'break' the sound barrier and . not die.

If Felix Baumgartner, the world-famous skydiver, can accomplish this feat, he will enroll in the world record as the person with the highest jump from the world and become the first to overcome. through the sound wall with your own body.

During the dance, Felix Baumgartner will also collect data on the reactions of the human body when falling from such a height. This information will help plan the future of astronauts and space tourists in the future.

Austrian paratroopers are planning to break the "sound wall".
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In order to make this record jump, Baumgartner will be taken to the stratosphere in a small pupa due to an air balloon filled with helium gas brought into the air.

When it reached a height of 36,000m after three hours of flying, the ground control unit would signal and Felix would open the door and jump out with the camera on the capsule and the clothes attached to the recording device too. your jump.

Within 35 seconds, Felix will achieve supersonic speed and break the 'sound wall'. Nobody knows what will happen then, but scientists believe Felix will remain awake.

He will fall freely for about 6 minutes and turn on even when he is 1,500 m high and have to swim about 15 minutes to return to the mainland.

What will happen to Felix's body when going from a state below the speed of sound until reaching an ultrasound level and returning to the speed below sound is a great concern for scientists.

So the electrocardiogram will be attached to Felix's body when he performs the jump. In addition, accelerometers and GPS devices are used to measure acceleration, speed and pressure on Felix's body.

However, the number of such devices seems too much because Felix will wear a special suit with 100% oxygen. Thus, Felix's support team worries, placing too many electrical devices can cause a fire. All data will be publicly available and transferred to the army and NASA.

The elevation diagram of the record is about to be set.Photo: BBC

This special event will take place in 2010 but has not been determined for a specific time. After conducting experiments at a height of 7,620m, 18,288m and 27,432m, the team will observe the radar and wait for the weather to be favorable, then select the location, possibly in North America.

The goal would be for Felix to fall near the launch area, but even with stable wind conditions the likelihood of deviation would reach 241 km.

The implementation team should test all the conditions to ensure the work proceeds smoothly, since this trial will have many 'transfers' from the cold floor, the zero gravity environment at a height of over 36,000m for to the hot floor.

'The preparation of this event is similar to other flight test programs. The only other thing is, in this case, the man, specifically Felix Baumgartner, will be the plane , 'said Jonathan Clark, the group's medical director.