They didn't, there is really no possible way that we could have retreaved that baloon back, considering the time era also that this event occured, they neither had the technology nor the money to make/spend on such an endeavor.
No where in the title nor the description does it say anything about surfing. It says breaking the sound barrier without a vehicle, he used a balloon.
@61vyper he had to get to the beech party somehow! strapping a surfboard to his back, spacediving to the middle of the ocean then catching a single wave and riding it all the way back to shore surrounded by musical dolphins was just the most entertaining way to do it.
@nasaAstroNots Ok, so I offer you a truce and you throw it in my face. I knew you were stupid, but I wasn't aware you were rude as well. Honestly, if you or your family had the mental capacity to earn enough money to board a plane and fly at 30,000 ft. you would change your mind. Why I am still wasting my time on your pathetic little notions is quite beyond me but I feel compelled to rid this world of ridiculous ideas. I suppose you believe in creationism also. Science is the observation of fact
@nasaAstroNots Ok, clearly you and I will never agree on this. And it isn't that I hold you in contempt, I just find myself feeling utter disbelief when I read your comments. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I have given up trying to explain to you what everyone else (Einstein included!) knows to be fact. I'd just like to know where you have got these ideas from. Just put together a rational explanation and I'll settle for that. I look forward to seeing your proof.
@nasaAstroNots I have an education thankyou. Water has three forms; ice (solid), water (liquid) and clouds (gas). Even children know that. If water were solid, you could walk on it! And no, before you ask, the government did not tell me that! Do us all a favour and step off a boat in the middle of the Atlantic to test your theory of water being solid. And while you're at it, tie some bricks to your feet just to be sure. Ignorant tossers like you make my blood boil.
@nasaAstroNots No you retard, I'm not. The government did not have to tell me that we were flying through clouds, I could see it with my own eyes.
Are you actually going to substantiate your claims? I want proof, where are these projectors? Is the sun a hologram too? If so, why does it emit harmful rays that can give you skin cancer?
Honestly, people like you should be put down or at least banned from having children to prevent human evolution going into reverse.
@nasaAstroNots Is water solid? NO! If I were an American, I would be ashamed to call people like you a compatriot. There are many Americans whom I admire, President Obama for instance. He's a brilliant man; clever, perceptive, enlightened and charming. And yet he has the misfortune of the onerus task of governing a country half filled with racist, ignorant and downright retarded citizens.
America is a puzzle. It is the only country I know of that is both brilliant and stupid at the same time.
@nasaAstroNots I'm sorry but I'm actually struggling to comprehend your logic or rationale. Where did you get that stupid notion from? Where do you suppose all of these holographic projectors are located? More to the point, why? It serves no purpose.
And I live in the UK, I'm no 'government shill'. I can tell you that planes DO exist and that clouds are not solid as I flew to and from Egypt with a window seat through the clouds. Just a guess but are you a Republican or Tea Party supporter?
@nasaAstroNots I do love it when people who clearly have no idea what they are talking about post comments on youtube rubbishing what other people say and make them out to be stupid. I pity you and your ignorance. Airplanes fly through or just above clouds. I suppose next you'll be trying to tell people that clouds aren't dense. Good luck with that.
@nasaAstroNots Airplanes do not exist? Am i missing something here or is that just a typo? RandomDirectors is right to say they fly at 33,000 ft because it enables faster flight but also because of the consideration of range. The air is less dense at that altitude and therefore produces less drag but is sufficiently dense to provide enough lift to keep the plane in the air. Do you think 30,000 - 33,000 ft is an arbitrary altitude? No, it's because it satisfies the comprimise between lift/range.
I'm trying to get a Joe Kittinger Day going for Aug 16th (the day he jumped). If your intrested in helping, the best way is to make as many web postings you can. Submit this or any vids, info or just anything on any browser. heres a list of the medals Joe Kittinger has .... Silver Star (2) Legion of Merit (2) Distinguished Flying Cross (6) Bronze Star (3) Purple Heart (2) Meritorious Service Medal Air Medal (24) Prisoner of War Medal Thanks for any help
He actually didn't land in the water like the video shows, the drop was over new mexico, he landed on the ground. Sure would have been cool if he had landed in water though :)
Awesome video but the title is kinda a fail. There is simply no way to reach the speed of sound skydiving. The average humans terminal velocity is from 125-210.
Remember, terminal velocity only occurs inside of an atmosphere. He jumped from the brink of space, above 99 percent of the atmosphere. Since the air was so thin, he accelerated to nearly 1,000 km/h. There was very little atmosphere to slow him down. In fact, while falling at nearly 1,000 km/h, he didn't feel any wind rushing past him.
watch this america im 14 and when i get old enough im going to attempt the same thing joe kittinger did but im gonna go slightly higher then he did to set a new world record
lol i hope you realize that this isnt the movie "up" and it takes a lot of money, time, preparation, experience, equpiment, and enough airspace to do something like this haha
yes, lets get some science in here! one very large factor determining terminal velocity is the density of air...........how dense d'ya think the air was at 31,000 meters? He reached 990km/ph.
Eh, Wikipedia, Joe Kittinger. Seriously - where are you getting your science in?........is 990km/ph faster than sound?? No. I never said it was, but you seem to think it is. It isn't, but it is damn fast. Now you say he came close to it having previously said that his terminal velocity would be well below the speed of sound. In any case, the whole point is the man had balls bigger than watermelons.
@Mrinternetjustice sorry don't use wiki here, I can give you the math formula for determining terminal velocity from any height. and as my !st post here stated. his terminal velocity was to low to break the sound barrier. And his top speed was 988KPH or 614 MPH in order to even hit 714 mph the balloon would have had to reach 107,000 ft or 4000ft higher. I have total respect for the man the missions and the service he gave to the greatest nation on earth!
@hotmercedes Really, you didn't read what was said properly. I said 990km/ph - you just said 988..........tomato tomato. We disagree over 2km/ph. KILOMETERS per hour. Not faster than sound, never said it was, you did. Going round in circles, Balls bigger than watermelons. The end.
Weightlessness on ISS (and aboard all the spacecrafts) is not caused by the decreased gravitational force imposed by Earth. In fact the cause of weightlessness is that the centrifugal forces awakened by the tremendous speed of ISS equal the gravitational force imposed by Earth. More generally, the reason of weightlessness is that no external force affects the spacecrafts, other than gravity.
The lack of external forces (e.g. pushing force from a supporting structure like Earth's surface, or aerodinamical drag) leads to the lack of physical tension in the structure of the spacecrafts and everything inside them. This is weightlessness not the lack of gravitational force.
Anyway, the gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the attracting bodies (i.e. the CENTER of Earth and ISS). Earth's mean radius is 6,371 km while ISS is at 355 km above the SURFACE of Earth, which means a distance of 6,726 km from the CENTER of Eart. The quotient of the squares of 6,371 km and 6,726 km is 0.897, which means that the gravitational force imposed by Earth is only slightly weaker at the altitude of ISS' orbit than down here.
Man o man!!!!! Joe Kittinger truly holds the title balls & nerves of steel,titanium or unobtanium i don't care which,take your pick, i think he fits em all.
Mad mutha fucka. Men in those days were made of better stuff, that is a FACT. thats why no one has beaten it in over 50 years, even with all the new technology.
i have no ego you bumtard. Yes, your mate was right. I am wrong. Does it make my original statement's point incorrect - no, it makes the minute detail of my point incorrect. great so someone beat it 2 years ago, woopy fucking do , was i wrong, really???? it took 50 years. SPASTIC
OOPS! yeah you're right i got that wrong but i think this year this guy will finally do the jump he has been anouncing for i think two or three years... when he does that he will become the first human being to break the soundbarrier only with his body... im looking forward to see it
Yeah, I agree.. I hope they aren't trying to suggest that some surfer compares to the bravado of Joe Kittinger? Kind of seemed an odd way to end it...
This is a promo video for the Boards of Canada song "Dayvan Cowboy". They used the film of Joe Kittinger's record-breaking jump for their video. That's the reason for the surfboard clip at the end.
The value of speed of sound is measured at sea level - i.e. one atmosphere. The density of air at 100,000 feet is only 1 tenth that. He would have to travel at 5500 mph to obtain a sonic boom (the point of breaking compression barrier). If he did that speed in a space suit, he will burn up in seconds.
'So, you did your first tandem jump from 30,000 feet. Nice one. You would only have 70,000 more feet or so to go to catch up to this guy....oh, and you'd have to lose the instructor...' Excellent video! Way to showcase this extraordinary feat of airmanship that I doubt will ever be repeated...
A massive prank will be pulled on "comedian" Fred on youtube.
What is trying to be done is get everyone that has a subscription to fred, to unsubscribe. If this is succsesful, then it will make the news, cause controversy, and best of all, destroy fred!
What the hell? How is the surfing at the end relevant to this?
CHiMPKiDD 3 days ago
thats whats up
arazec343 3 months ago
imagine him drifting off in space after jumping
digimaster88 5 months ago 2
This could only be done by Chuck Norris' father.
Mycophilliac 6 months ago in playlist Watch Later #4
@technojaja
They didn't, there is really no possible way that we could have retreaved that baloon back, considering the time era also that this event occured, they neither had the technology nor the money to make/spend on such an endeavor.
SoldierofTheFallen 6 months ago
@SoldierofTheFallen Then how do they have the footage off the baloon, if they couldn't retrieve it?
Naterger 3 months ago
how did they found the balloon ?
technojaa 7 months ago
No where in the title nor the description does it say anything about surfing. It says breaking the sound barrier without a vehicle, he used a balloon.
Partof300 8 months ago
@Partof300 it shows a fairly solid portion of surfing..
paolotagliano 8 months ago
I'd like to know how did he re-enter without getting burned alive :p
darkangel767 8 months ago
@darkangel767
He never left the atmosphere. He was on the fringes of.
Partof300 8 months ago
@darkangel767 He didn't reach a high enough speed. Returning spacecraft come in at over 25,000 mph.
JeffersonDinedAlone 6 months ago
@darkangel767 He wasn't going fast enough to do that... he would have had to jump from a much higher elevation for that to happen
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OSUBeaverkdf 8 months ago
i would of loved to see the look on his face if he had started to fly up!! lol
XxIMMORTALxKILLERxX 9 months ago 10
What whould have happened if he made a sonic boom?
SuperFerretGuy 11 months ago
@SuperFerretGuy he did
computerchris122 8 months ago
So he jumped, landed in the ocean and started surfing?
61vyper 1 year ago 25
@61vyper he had to get to the beech party somehow! strapping a surfboard to his back, spacediving to the middle of the ocean then catching a single wave and riding it all the way back to shore surrounded by musical dolphins was just the most entertaining way to do it.
YOSKIE806 5 months ago 2
Wow! Sonic boom?
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@nasaAstroNots If you know the answer why are you asking
mageslol 1 year ago
@nasaAstroNots ughhh?? what was your question o.O??
mageslol 1 year ago
@nasaAstroNots ... I think i'd know how old i was fool xD
and wow that was probably the most ignorant statement i've ever heard in my life
you really need to an education
I hate the government and I know about all the propganda and bullshit thats out
all most all history they teach is changed
BUT WTF YOU ARE RETARDED beyond comprehension
mageslol 1 year ago
@nasaAstroNots I'm only 19 xD you fuckin retard
Get an education!!! I'm only 19 and already smarter than you
mageslol 1 year ago
O.O imagine how far he could go with a wing suit
knifengun 1 year ago
@nasaAstroNots You're fuckin retarded Hillbilly
Everything you are saying is wrong especially chemtrails... ITS FAKE YOU DUMB FAKE its just watervapor
EDUCATION!
mageslol 1 year ago
@nasaAstroNots Ok, so I offer you a truce and you throw it in my face. I knew you were stupid, but I wasn't aware you were rude as well. Honestly, if you or your family had the mental capacity to earn enough money to board a plane and fly at 30,000 ft. you would change your mind. Why I am still wasting my time on your pathetic little notions is quite beyond me but I feel compelled to rid this world of ridiculous ideas. I suppose you believe in creationism also. Science is the observation of fact
Mozatron87 1 year ago
@Mozatron87 I think it's too late to tell you to stop feeding the trolls, but please stop feeding the trolls.
ballsy101 1 year ago
@ballsy101 You have a point. After all, there is little point trying to convince a delusional man that he is wrong.
Mozatron87 1 year ago
@nasaAstroNots Ok, clearly you and I will never agree on this. And it isn't that I hold you in contempt, I just find myself feeling utter disbelief when I read your comments. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I have given up trying to explain to you what everyone else (Einstein included!) knows to be fact. I'd just like to know where you have got these ideas from. Just put together a rational explanation and I'll settle for that. I look forward to seeing your proof.
Mozatron87 1 year ago
Um no, he hit 614 mph that's 9/10 the speed of sound at the altitude he reached that speed(about 90,000 feet).
dointhings100 1 year ago
@nasaAstroNots I have an education thankyou. Water has three forms; ice (solid), water (liquid) and clouds (gas). Even children know that. If water were solid, you could walk on it! And no, before you ask, the government did not tell me that! Do us all a favour and step off a boat in the middle of the Atlantic to test your theory of water being solid. And while you're at it, tie some bricks to your feet just to be sure. Ignorant tossers like you make my blood boil.
Mozatron87 1 year ago
@nasaAstroNots No you retard, I'm not. The government did not have to tell me that we were flying through clouds, I could see it with my own eyes.
Are you actually going to substantiate your claims? I want proof, where are these projectors? Is the sun a hologram too? If so, why does it emit harmful rays that can give you skin cancer?
Honestly, people like you should be put down or at least banned from having children to prevent human evolution going into reverse.
Mozatron87 1 year ago
@nasaAstroNots Is water solid? NO! If I were an American, I would be ashamed to call people like you a compatriot. There are many Americans whom I admire, President Obama for instance. He's a brilliant man; clever, perceptive, enlightened and charming. And yet he has the misfortune of the onerus task of governing a country half filled with racist, ignorant and downright retarded citizens.
America is a puzzle. It is the only country I know of that is both brilliant and stupid at the same time.
Mozatron87 1 year ago
@nasaAstroNots I'm sorry but I'm actually struggling to comprehend your logic or rationale. Where did you get that stupid notion from? Where do you suppose all of these holographic projectors are located? More to the point, why? It serves no purpose.
And I live in the UK, I'm no 'government shill'. I can tell you that planes DO exist and that clouds are not solid as I flew to and from Egypt with a window seat through the clouds. Just a guess but are you a Republican or Tea Party supporter?
Mozatron87 1 year ago
@nasaAstroNots go back to school granddad.... clearly you lived 55 years of your life as an idiot.
RandomDirectors 1 year ago
omfg he turned into a dolphin wow he is amazing :D
jacketedtangent 1 year ago
@nasaAstroNots I do love it when people who clearly have no idea what they are talking about post comments on youtube rubbishing what other people say and make them out to be stupid. I pity you and your ignorance. Airplanes fly through or just above clouds. I suppose next you'll be trying to tell people that clouds aren't dense. Good luck with that.
Mozatron87 1 year ago
@nasaAstroNots Airplanes do not exist? Am i missing something here or is that just a typo? RandomDirectors is right to say they fly at 33,000 ft because it enables faster flight but also because of the consideration of range. The air is less dense at that altitude and therefore produces less drag but is sufficiently dense to provide enough lift to keep the plane in the air. Do you think 30,000 - 33,000 ft is an arbitrary altitude? No, it's because it satisfies the comprimise between lift/range.
Mozatron87 1 year ago
JKthestud 1 year ago
what doesw the surfing gotn to do with it wtf
aaronjoyce 1 year ago
@nasaAstroNots educate yourself a Boeing 747 can only fly at around 300-400 killometers while near the ground.
However the reason why it flies at 33,000 feet is because there is less air and it can run more than twice as fast.
Now imagine how much less air there is at 100,000 feet you stupid child.
RandomDirectors 1 year ago
He burned up as he reached the bottom of the atmosphere...
RandomDirectors 1 year ago
What is it called when they put their arms back, making an arrow (up to 900km per hour?
I mean the fastest way of diving, I call it "the peregrine move" or "the falcon dive" but I'm sure they're not the official names.
Loecraveiro 1 year ago
@Loecraveiro The position you are describing is called the "delta" position.
DRmisanthropy 1 year ago
Screw the Russians, John Glenn and Alan Shepherd, this guy is the first by a longshot and without a space-capsule!!!!
ermayo93 1 year ago
wonder how he unstrapped outta the air tanks and stuff so he could float to the top of the water without drowning
gnccracer16 1 year ago
@gnccracer16
He actually didn't land in the water like the video shows, the drop was over new mexico, he landed on the ground. Sure would have been cool if he had landed in water though :)
zwwalker 1 year ago
Wank music and some shitty surfing vid at the end.
Where's the original footage of him landing in the new mexico desert and smoking a cigarette as soon as he takes his helmet off?
stevepising 1 year ago
The Music is Dayvan Cowboy by Boards of Canada, this is also the opening theme to the show departues, sweet song.
aaacam 1 year ago
... fuck chuck norris NEW HERO IS Joe Kittinger
freddy4108 1 year ago
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Ok. Already saw below that the song is from Boards of Canada, named Dayvan Cowboy. Damn good.
ClowRD 1 year ago
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ClowRD 1 year ago
...and... uh... he actually surfed after hitting the ground? Fuckin' badass guy...
ClowRD 1 year ago
Hey! What's the name of the music??
ClowRD 1 year ago
@ClowRD
I'm about 70% sure that song is by Afro-Celt Sound System
energysage 1 year ago
Awesome video but the title is kinda a fail. There is simply no way to reach the speed of sound skydiving. The average humans terminal velocity is from 125-210.
squidwardo1 1 year ago
@squidwardo1
The oxygen was thinner, and therefore he fell faster, faster than the speed of sound.
AnasaziTribal 1 year ago
you mean Aliens high- fived him, not god
dolonigmite 1 year ago
FUCKING BAD ASS
clintallen123 1 year ago
thats easy id do it so fun
daltondevore 1 year ago
wouldnt do that or a trillion dollars yo...for realz if god wus like do it now id be like no..im sorry, i know ur god but no... bottom line..lmao jk
blknig12 1 year ago
@nasaAstroNots Sigh...I hope youve realized your wrong by now.
yankeesluva 1 year ago
he's practically jumping into the earth. he has fucking balls!
300MUSIC 1 year ago
@nasaAstroNots there wasnt enough air resistence to slow him done that much, because of how high he was
hiflyby 1 year ago
@nasaAstroNots unles syour in diving position then it turns to like 200. or right around there.
sweetsongman1 1 year ago
Holy Shiiiiiiiiit
MagikalKraker 1 year ago
Now that's the way to surf. Fall 20 miles from the edge of the atmosphere, then ride the wave you'd create.
Lann094 1 year ago
Very, very cool video. I love it.
389Lee 1 year ago
i don't get it. he sonic boomed while surfing?
gwohlwen 1 year ago
Terminal velocity = 195 km/h for a human
remixer26 1 year ago
@remixer26
Remember, terminal velocity only occurs inside of an atmosphere. He jumped from the brink of space, above 99 percent of the atmosphere. Since the air was so thin, he accelerated to nearly 1,000 km/h. There was very little atmosphere to slow him down. In fact, while falling at nearly 1,000 km/h, he didn't feel any wind rushing past him.
norman4lyf 1 year ago
@norman4lyf nothing profound just saying thanks for this comment
sollibop 1 year ago
dude was shot down over vietnam...didnt endear himself well with others.
jjjazzycraig 1 year ago
watch this america im 14 and when i get old enough im going to attempt the same thing joe kittinger did but im gonna go slightly higher then he did to set a new world record
MagPieLove1 1 year ago
@MagPieLove1 have fun
meesromijn 1 year ago
@MagPieLove1
lol i hope you realize that this isnt the movie "up" and it takes a lot of money, time, preparation, experience, equpiment, and enough airspace to do something like this haha
ferretfrenzy05 1 year ago
yes, lets get some science in here! one very large factor determining terminal velocity is the density of air...........how dense d'ya think the air was at 31,000 meters? He reached 990km/ph.
Mrinternetjustice 1 year ago
@Mrinternetjustice where did you get that speed from? the sonic boom alone would destroy his internal organs
hotmercedes 1 year ago
@Mrinternetjustice he came close but did NOT do it! google "joe kittinger sound barrier" and click the areospaceweb link
hotmercedes 1 year ago
@hotmercedes
Eh, Wikipedia, Joe Kittinger. Seriously - where are you getting your science in?........is 990km/ph faster than sound?? No. I never said it was, but you seem to think it is. It isn't, but it is damn fast. Now you say he came close to it having previously said that his terminal velocity would be well below the speed of sound. In any case, the whole point is the man had balls bigger than watermelons.
Mrinternetjustice 1 year ago
@Mrinternetjustice sorry don't use wiki here, I can give you the math formula for determining terminal velocity from any height. and as my !st post here stated. his terminal velocity was to low to break the sound barrier. And his top speed was 988KPH or 614 MPH in order to even hit 714 mph the balloon would have had to reach 107,000 ft or 4000ft higher. I have total respect for the man the missions and the service he gave to the greatest nation on earth!
hotmercedes 1 year ago
I am now going to look into what would be needed to have a human body survive the "sonic boom". I am sure it is more than a pressure suit.
hotmercedes 1 year ago
@hotmercedes Really, you didn't read what was said properly. I said 990km/ph - you just said 988..........tomato tomato. We disagree over 2km/ph. KILOMETERS per hour. Not faster than sound, never said it was, you did. Going round in circles, Balls bigger than watermelons. The end.
Mrinternetjustice 1 year ago
lets get some science in here. His terminal velocity would be well below the speed of sound.
hotmercedes 1 year ago
I have to watch this vid every few months b/c its so fu***** cool on so many levels. Falling from the edge of space and Riding Giants...
Does anyone know the name of the song that's playing???
2GetThere 1 year ago
It's 'Boards of Canada' judging by the tags. No mention of the track name.
creematthew 1 year ago
Dayvan Cowboy by Boards of Canada. The album its on is The Campfire Headphase.
1moredub 1 year ago
Where do I sign up? =P
Chefboyarjoe 1 year ago
Its Crazy Seeing How Little Gravity Is There...Its Almost Like He Is Floating!!
jeekee8 1 year ago
@jeekee8
No. That's slow motion. The gravity at that altitude (and even at the orbit of THE space station) is virtually the same as on Earth's surface.
nice0051 1 year ago 2
@nice0051 Are you serious? Gravity in the space station is almost the same on earth? Wrong!
Please link me to a video where they are walking round with gravity in the space station.
CrankEmpire 9 months ago
@CrankEmpire
Weightlessness on ISS (and aboard all the spacecrafts) is not caused by the decreased gravitational force imposed by Earth. In fact the cause of weightlessness is that the centrifugal forces awakened by the tremendous speed of ISS equal the gravitational force imposed by Earth. More generally, the reason of weightlessness is that no external force affects the spacecrafts, other than gravity.
nice0051 9 months ago
@CrankEmpire
The lack of external forces (e.g. pushing force from a supporting structure like Earth's surface, or aerodinamical drag) leads to the lack of physical tension in the structure of the spacecrafts and everything inside them. This is weightlessness not the lack of gravitational force.
nice0051 9 months ago
@CrankEmpire
Anyway, the gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the attracting bodies (i.e. the CENTER of Earth and ISS). Earth's mean radius is 6,371 km while ISS is at 355 km above the SURFACE of Earth, which means a distance of 6,726 km from the CENTER of Eart. The quotient of the squares of 6,371 km and 6,726 km is 0.897, which means that the gravitational force imposed by Earth is only slightly weaker at the altitude of ISS' orbit than down here.
nice0051 9 months ago
@nice0051 I understand what your saying I don't know why I didn't think of this. I'm not usually this dumb. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
CrankEmpire 9 months ago
@CrankEmpire
> Thanks for the detailed explanation.
Imagine, how hard it was for me in english :)))
Anyway, thank you for the reply.
nice0051 9 months ago
Wow, not even Chuck Norris could skydive from space and pop up on a surf board!
squidly1117 2 years ago
I think you mean Chuck Yeager, but I get the joke.
RTH615 2 years ago
How many minutes did he freefall?
pagani43 2 years ago
For 4 minutes 36 seconds.
On a side note, his glove had a leak in it and his hand swelled up twice it's normal size.
50 years ago......wow.....
barfootsnowboards 2 years ago
awesome....... truly amazing
TIESTOdude 2 years ago 2
Truly fearless.
1moredub 2 years ago
I'm sorry but Joe Kittinger never reached the speed of sound! But he actually reached Mach 0.9 which still very very fast!
perceuse21 2 years ago
This has to be the ultimate stunt
MurphyMonster 2 years ago
I have respect for this man, amazing...wow.
byobbbq 2 years ago
Oh man. If I was to do this, I would have this music playing as I did it.
edj66 2 years ago
Man o man!!!!! Joe Kittinger truly holds the title balls & nerves of steel,titanium or unobtanium i don't care which,take your pick, i think he fits em all.
welder541 2 years ago
Any detail on how his suit kept him warm? electric heaters in it?
wirelessoptical 2 years ago
it was presurised and very well insulated but no electricity or it may have been consiederd an 'aircraft'
XtremeGoose 2 years ago
@wirelessoptical if so i want one! im fucking freezing!
11jeopardy11 2 years ago
nice track.
Mad mutha fucka. Men in those days were made of better stuff, that is a FACT. thats why no one has beaten it in over 50 years, even with all the new technology.
orsonkarte 2 years ago
Actually, a couple years ago some guy jumped at an attitude of 120,000 ft.
giovanni9107 2 years ago
there is always one Wiki know-it-all
Ok maybe 46 years, but show some proof, mr trivial pursuit!
Do you feel better now?
I bet all the girls like you at parties.
orsonkarte 2 years ago
@orsonkarte he was simply informing you, that you were incorrect. It's sad that your ego is so huge that you can't even accept that.
YeorRecneps 2 years ago
i have no ego you bumtard. Yes, your mate was right. I am wrong. Does it make my original statement's point incorrect - no, it makes the minute detail of my point incorrect. great so someone beat it 2 years ago, woopy fucking do , was i wrong, really???? it took 50 years. SPASTIC
orsonkarte 2 years ago
has he actually done the jump at 120,000 ft? everything i've read he was planning it
chentiangemalc 2 years ago 8
yeah, heloo!
RetardAtItsVeryBest 2 years ago
Actually no. Some guy announced the intention to jump from 120k ft. But nobody has.
bcismar 2 years ago
OOPS! yeah you're right i got that wrong but i think this year this guy will finally do the jump he has been anouncing for i think two or three years... when he does that he will become the first human being to break the soundbarrier only with his body... im looking forward to see it
giovanni9107 2 years ago
It's cool, we all make mistakes. If this is the biggest you've made you are a better person than I am on my best day.
I understand that Kittinger is advising the new challenger on how to beat his record.
Class and courage.
bcismar 2 years ago
Umm great video... but what's with the surfing. Missed the mark a tad, but well constructed.
lxberman 2 years ago
Yeah, I agree.. I hope they aren't trying to suggest that some surfer compares to the bravado of Joe Kittinger? Kind of seemed an odd way to end it...
parkaoz 2 years ago
@parkaoz
This is a promo video for the Boards of Canada song "Dayvan Cowboy". They used the film of Joe Kittinger's record-breaking jump for their video. That's the reason for the surfboard clip at the end.
normanforlife 2 years ago
@lxberman
Read my reply to parkaoz.
normanforlife 2 years ago
Awesome!
HankJr24 2 years ago
i would do that in a heartbeat.
havocson 2 years ago
what song is this someone please tell me if they know?
55817 2 years ago
Dayvan Cowboy, by Boards of Canada.
entropyblues 2 years ago
thank you so much
55817 2 years ago
I can see my house from here. :D
alkhars11 2 years ago
You can see EVERYONE'S house from here!
BrianBinOR 2 years ago
Comment thread winner.
I wonder if he high-fived God on the way by?
Halo4Lyf 2 years ago 43
@Halo4Lyf i think god was thinking.. he has ballss
caboose250 1 year ago
@Halo4Lyf nope, God high-fived him.
IamTheSalesman 1 year ago
@IamTheSalesman Haha, yeah, I suppose the Almighty gets precedence.
Halo4Lyf 1 year ago
wats up w/ the surfing thing? tht part didnt actually happen rite?
RBLAXGOALIE 2 years ago
yeah that was real
shanegedekoh 2 years ago
it's a music video for boards of canada, they used the real footage of kittingers jump and just put some surf video's behind it.
199385369 2 years ago
he was in space omg people get it right
caboose250 2 years ago
Balls the size of watermelons.
nerblebun 2 years ago 31
And as strong as steel.
TheLancer1993 2 years ago
They clang together and emit bolts of lightening.
He was shot down and held as a POW. He used to communicate with John McCain in a nearby cell by tapping code on the wall.
bcismar 2 years ago
@nerblebun Watermelons the size of his balls!
oisindalywillkillyou 1 year ago
@nerblebun
If his space-suit sprung a leak, his balls would have grown to that size and then exploded!!!
ermayo93 1 year ago
He is in like the very outer layers of the atmosphere. Not quite space
3plus4equals7 2 years ago
BROKE THE SOUND BARRIER
Disneyismylife1970 2 years ago
i dont get it, so hes in space? he made it back in the atmosphere without burning up? or did i get it wrong?
superjohan11 2 years ago
no hes not in space he never left earths atmosphere but is very close
shinobistyle86 2 years ago 2
that is absolutely breathtaking!
VollAssiBeefRitter 2 years ago
Awe-inspiring.
LlortnA 2 years ago
THIS IS BADASS
monkynutzuk 2 years ago
he had a bunch of parachutes to slow him down to thats so sweet
Forumryder101 2 years ago
He did not reach the the speed of sound (768 mph), his top speed was 614 mph.
wowrox13 2 years ago 2
yeah but the higher the altitude the easier it is because of the temperature. with a -100 it would have been lower.
Skater4life567 2 years ago
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wowrox13 2 years ago
For planes, yeah. He's just free falling.
demonikreaper 2 years ago
actually , the thinner the air , the EASIER it is to reach that... cause you'd have almost no resistance...
weetnietgeen 2 years ago
I realized that, but would mind not replying to 2 months old comments? :)
wowrox13 2 years ago
lol, i didnt even notice it was 2 months old...
weetnietgeen 2 years ago
his top speed is 700mph ...
u got wrong fact !
geraldmcboing60 2 years ago
how did they do the shot of him falling with the camera on the balloon? like how did they get the camera back that was on the balloon?
cl0sa 2 years ago
balloon falls down slowly as it looses its helium or what ever they used... im guessing
Legendary588 2 years ago
im not surprised he came so close to the speed of sound with the extra wait of those big balls of steel!
monkynutzuk 2 years ago 2
LMFAO TRUE
redslownight 2 years ago
honesty, your IQ must be 50 to do that.
but realy extreme!
cezarejski 2 years ago
THey would never allow someone with a 50 IQ to do that.
bishop102 2 years ago 7
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milestonedd 2 years ago
So...does the surfboard come standard in the parachute for these jumps?
SIMIENAP 2 years ago 3
Can anyone explain to me how the top speed he achieved of 614 mph breaks the sound barrier when sound is 768 mph? I don't understand that
nsaucier1988 2 years ago
Joe Kittinger was on 0.9 Mach (speed of sound is 1.0 mach) - SO he was VERY close to the speed of sound.
Alfons92 2 years ago
The value of speed of sound is measured at sea level - i.e. one atmosphere. The density of air at 100,000 feet is only 1 tenth that. He would have to travel at 5500 mph to obtain a sonic boom (the point of breaking compression barrier). If he did that speed in a space suit, he will burn up in seconds.
geeoogle 2 years ago
He went 714 mph,not 614, the video is wrong.Also the speed of sound is slower that high because of air pressure,temp,etc.
tuckerTAT10 2 years ago
He should have tried bungy jimping after that.
Drenix 2 years ago
'So, you did your first tandem jump from 30,000 feet. Nice one. You would only have 70,000 more feet or so to go to catch up to this guy....oh, and you'd have to lose the instructor...' Excellent video! Way to showcase this extraordinary feat of airmanship that I doubt will ever be repeated...
ThunderHead72 2 years ago
You should mention that the end of this video is fake...
CharlieDraper 2 years ago
no its not
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orikid94 2 years ago
I <3 Boards of Canada
HexicNexus 2 yea