Father-son experiment brings back video from edge of space

[2-0-Sixx]

Those are very convenient.

Empty weight 250 lbs (excluding safety equipment)
Gross weight 535 lbs

Plus, it sounds like a plane is strapped to your back. Because technically....there is.

yeah I'm not too impressed with those either. I mean it's 2000 and fucking 10. Shit should be commercialized by now.

Here is a much smaller one, not sure why they (martin aircraft) cant do something similar:

 

[BASEDVATO]

Im still waiting on one of these to hit the market.... we just don't have the power!

 

[Legman]

that shit was ill.

this reminds me of the first person to travel faster than the speed of sound without a vehicle (Joseph Kittinger). In 1960 when NASA was testing the effects on the human body they sent a lone man in a air balloon like that, which reached to the outer atmosphere (102,000 feet). Before it popped he jumped off with a parachute. He free falled for over 5 minutes, thus traveling faster then the speed of sound. That must have been an incredible fall!

did dude suffer frostbite too or sumthing like that?

i remember hearing about this in school when i was younger, that must have been the best free fall jump ever!