Tuesday 19 February 2008

"Skydiver goes for 120,000ft record fall"

Steve Truglia, we salute you (you can have a 'rock' after you've landed safely!).

It will be a shame to see Joseph Kittinger Jr's 1960 record of 102,800 feet to be beaten after all these years, though.

On a pedantic note, cracking the 770 mph sound barrier might be a tad easier up there - the speed of sound is slower where the atmostphere is thinner.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The report tactfully uses the phrase 'dashes towards the ground' to imply he could saunter landward, or maybe hang around up there until he felt like coming down, having enough of playing at being google earth.

'Plummets'. That's the word they are avoiding.

Mark Wadsworth said...

LOL