18 mile skydive

[Craig Mac]

Mission is a go and balloon is now at 70k feet. This is on the discovery channel as well and jump should be around 45 mins or so.

 

[AlohaStyle]

He's almost ready to jump... go check it out!

 

[CigarGavin]

Coming up on 110,000 feet; only 10,000 left to go...

 

[AlohaStyle]

This is on the discovery channel as well and jump should be around 45 mins or so.

Just re-read your post... thanks for letting us know. Much better than watching on computer.

 

[fourkicksfan]

Congrats to Felix!!! Pretty awesome accomplishment.

 

[smokemifugotem]

truly epic!

 

[L8A]

That was badass!!!

 

[AlohaStyle]

Wow, I was pretty nervous when he was spinning out of control... you couldn't hear his breathing and I was thinking the worst!

 

[fourkicksfan]

Yeah that looked like a little more than a controlled roll

 

[N8NOE]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19927667

 

[Marcm15]

About as close as I EVER want to get to something like this is zooming in really fast on Google Earth while I sit in front of an electric fan...

 

[NickThePyro]

This is truely amazing! My favorite experience of my life was skydiving. I went from 13,000 feet. That was above the clouds. 23 miles is 121,440 feet :applause:

 

[ATL]

About as close as I EVER want to get to something like this is zooming in really fast on Google Earth while I sit in front of an electric fan...

Ditto.

 

[calgon]

Wow, I was pretty nervous when he was spinning out of control... you couldn't hear his breathing and I was thinking the worst!

I was thinking the same thing! It was incredible to see him take control and start to fly.

 

[AlohaStyle]

This is truely amazing! My favorite experience of my life was skydiving. I went from 13,000 feet. That was above the clouds. 23 miles is 121,440 feet :applause:

Ditto. I jumped at 13,000 feet over the North Shore of Oahu seeing all the Hawaiian Islands... was awesome. Made me appreciate watching him all the more!!!

 

[mdwest]

Felix is a stud..

Was all bummed that the jump was determined to be a "go" right about the time I started out on a 5 hour drive home from visiting family out of town this weekend..

until SWMBO picked up the streaming video on her iPhone... we watched while cruising up I40... (doing something only 1/200th as dangerous as what Felix was busy doing lol...)...

was very cool getting to watch history being made..