Felix Baumgartner Completes Record-Setting Jump

This post is highlighting a marvelous effort from a 43-years old temerarious personality named Baumgartner  from Austria,who after few the attempts succeeded to achieve the milestone of a 24-mile high jump from the second major layer of earth atmosphere (Stratosphere) on this Sunday.

Although the weather conditions for this risky high jump wasn't appropriate but the daredevil Baumgartner succeeded to achieve the high jump fall of speed greater than the speed of sound which was the main objective of this high fall jump,while the other main goal of this daredevil was to break the 52 years old record of highest skydiver ever.

To achieve this milestone Baumgartner jumped from a huge-helium filled balloon above the New-Mexico at the height of approximately three times then that of the altitude of Jetliners of about 120,000 feet (previous record was of 102,800 feet) with the speed greater then speed of sound of 833.99 mph (while speed of sound is761.207 mph) although he was expected to hit with the speed of 690 mph less then speed of sound.

The only problem during the jump Baumgartner faced was of uncontrollable spinning for a short time,but listen what Baumgartner said about this,"When I was spinning first 10, 20 seconds, I never thought I was going to lose my life but I was disappointed because I'm going to lose my record. I put seven years of my life into this".

Another interesting fact of this high jump that it broke a site record with more than 8 million simultaneous live streams at its peak on YouTube,while 216,000 likes, 10,000 comments and more than 29,000 shares on its picture on Facebook in less than 40 minutes.

In last  Baumgartner said that he plans to settle down with his girlfriend and fly helicopters on mountain rescue and firefighting missions in the U.S. and Austria.

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