Move aside , Felix Baumgartner . Alan Eustace , a senior frailty president at Google , return from the top of the stratosphere this morning , plummeting nearly 26 vertical miles in the brace of about 15 minute . In doing so , he has break Baumgartner ’s 2012 record for world ’s highest - EL free fall – and by a pretty hefty border .
On October 14th , 2012,Baumgartner fell to Earth from an altitude of 128,100 feet . The official figure on Eustace ’s maximal elevation is being give as 135,890 foot , or 25.74 mile . Baumgartner does appear to have hold on to the overall speeding record , however . On his coming back to Earth , Eustace achieved a top upper of 822 miles per hour , break the levelheaded barrier and return a sonic boom – but that ’s still about a residential stop number - demarcation shy of Baumgartner ’s peak velocity of 843.6 mph .
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There were other notable differences between the two jump . While both free - lumberman were carried Swedish mile into the atmosphere by He balloons , Baumgartner , a professional lunatic , made his raise in a roomy abridgment . In contrast , Eustace dangle instantly from his balloon in a specially project spacesuit . Where Baumgartner lead up his descent by stepping dramatically from his suspended seedcase , Eustace , like a unspoilt engineer , give up himself from his balloon with the help of a “ small explosive twist . ”
Until this aurora , that is . “ It was a wild , wild ride , ” read Eustace .
TheNew York Timeshas more information . For a trove of picture from today ’s jump , lead over tothe Paragon Space Development Corporation website .
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