An Austrian will fly faster than sound

An Austrian adventurous skydiver will perform a jump at 37 km to plunge to the ground at supersonic speeds.

A practice jump with Felix Baumgartner's Red Bull Stratos Full Suit costume. (Photo: Fox News).

Skydiving is a risky action, especially when someone jumps from a height of several tens of kilometers in a thin atmosphere. However, a famous adventurous skydiver in Austria dared to do that.

Fox News said athlete Felix Baumgartner was in the process of preparing to make a jump from 37 km in the stratosphere and reached a speed of 1,216 km / h when he plunged. If he can do that, he will be the first person in the world to fly faster than the sound and also set a new record for altitude skydiving.

Baumgartner and many scientists and engineers set up a project called The Red Bull Stratos to create a costume that allows people to parachute from a height of several tens of kilometers. Right from 2004 they created such costumes and called it Red Bull Stratos Full Suit. With this dress, people can maintain a state of alertness when plunging into the thin air with extremely high speed.

' In the first 30 seconds Baumgartner will not feel any feeling. This situation is very dangerous because at an altitude of 37 km, the athlete will feel like he did not fall down. In addition, Baumgartner had to jump in a correct posture to achieve the expected speed and survive the 5-minute-long jump , 'said Mike Todd, an engineer at the Red Bull Stratos project.

When plunging into Baumgartner, he will gather data about the reaction of the human body when flying in the stratosphere of the atmosphere. Those data will serve to build a system to protect pilots, astronauts and even future space travelers. He will fall freely in about 6 minutes before parachuting at an altitude of about 1,500 m to fall into the sea.

Scientists want to understand the reactions of Baumgartner's body when moving from a subsonic state to an ultrasonic speed and then back to speed under sound. So they would attach the ECG, accelerometer, pressure and speed measuring device to this athlete's body before he made the jump.