Freefall - Skydive from 31km

[SHELLHEAD1961]

Did The Video Show That He Reached a Free-Fall Speed Of...614 M.P.H.?!?!?!?!.....HOLY SH#T !!!!

[lello333]

WOOOW...

[wsk77]

this is real video ? from 1960 yr?

[johnnie420420420420]

i heard of HALO jumps b4 HALO stands for High-Altitude-Low-Oxigen jus wonderin if im correct...

[jujitsuman68]

@johnnie420420420420 high altitude low opening.

[tomterahedrob]

I want this mans autograph soooooo bad.Awesome.

[Jaruba16]

So thats what a cloud looks like from the inside!!

[TheRadiastral]

What a drop at 2:26..

[teesfella]

your enjoying a nice movie and a drink in 1st class on a jumbo jet taking you on a well deserved holiday then this fucker comes crashing through the cabin.

[deadcassette]

@MMAdominate He isn't, but some crazy other guy is jumping from an even greater height, and he is aiming to break the sound barrier! Google RedBull Stratos.

[kinsley2108]

Haha, he got the finger after all that?!

[whatevermightwork]

@ndgv2: Although Kittinger reached 600 mph in his free fall, he was falling much more slowly when he opened his parachute. In the lower atmosphere the higher air pressure provides enough resistance to slow terminal velocity.

[flash178]

at 5:00. The usual guy stuff

"So you have been to space?, Well F*** you"

[skinny3715]

Terminal velocity is only 130 ish. The closer to earth he gets the slower he falls due to drag and wind resistance. He pulled his chute the same time ad speed normal sky divers do

[xLurycz]

WAIT! Where did the balloon go?

[MrStriations]

Does anyone know how long he actually stayed in freefall for? I would imagine it would be somewhere in the minutes?

[LANO500]

Joe got some bigballs

[mobius1aic]

5:00 How many fingers am I holding up!? LOL

True human.

[galaxytroll]

i would not have jumped i wuda flown away and land on the Mars

[ndgv2]

I have a question for anyone who might know. if hes falling at over 600 mph, and pulls a parachute, wouldnt that seriously hurt him?

[ilynnad]

@ndgv2 He would only be going that fast in the upper atmosphere where there thinner air and hence lower air resistance. He would slow down gradually as he approached earth to a terminal velocity of about ~200mph, although earth's gravity would be slightly stronger as he approached too.

[MrStriations]

@ndgv2 He's only falling at such high speeds when he's in the thin air located at the 31km mark, as he decends, the air density gets higher as he enters the lower atmosphere and his velocity slows down to a point at which he is travelling at terminal velocity in that given air density (if that makes sense). So would eventually be travelling the same velocity as if he had jumped from say 15,000 ft.

[aabc1234xx]

5:00 fuck you hahah ;D

[Mafioso27th]

Ha pause at :13. The guy gives him the middle finger.

[marlo916]

what happens if you open the chute right from the jump?... assuming you had enough O2 to last the slower descent?

[Orfeus2009]

@marlo916 the parachute when it would enter the atmosphere would start spinning so he would die,he had to open it in a specific altitude to avoid the spinning.

[walkwoman20]

I read his book " The long lonely leap " before seeing the video and I can tell,Kittinger managed to depict the exact images of the whole flight in his words..It was as if I was watching the video for the second time !!

[leonidasgr2003]

imagine if he was too scared to jump at once and when he finally tried to, he finds out that ''there is NO gravity !!! ''

To infinity ... and beyond - Buzz Lightyear

[katanaburner]

I can only imagine the relief he felt when he touched the clouds finally and then when he touched down all together. Amazing!

[nikomo37]

5:16 - good job Joe ))

[thecuban1000]

Since no one asked this question yet, what did they fill the balloon up with? C02 jk

[theafi99000]

@thecuban1000 Helium

[KillanumEnt]

can you imagine just free falling for 4 minutes? I can imagined how he felt, mustve felt like a boss.

[isobodari1]

that is sexiest thing what man can do maddest rush he must be exhausted after that

[VonBoards]

I thought he uses his balls as a parachute Lool

[TheFreedom7272]

when do i get to have a go

[71renman]

amazing

[971QKE]

You have to have balls the size of church bells to do something like this. Kudos!

[MarcelSoosay10]

Take that pro Skydivers!

[51Centable]

man how does this guy walk around his balls must be draggin 3 km behind him

[nerfmegaman]

4:59 way to flick that dude off

[WTFamItalking]

that is soo awesome.. i cant describe the feeling that i would have if i could do a jump like that.. ITS MY DREAM!!

[treksez]

@WTFamItalking just put the video full screen and move your face right up close to the screen. It'll feel like you're actually there.

[PleasureTV]

who wants to jump from ISS ?

[alexsabin]

@PleasureTV can you?

[sonotquiet]

@PleasureTV count me in haha

[433bowman]

epic

[PlaystationDudeify]

that guys got serious balls

[qwer8456]

What would've happened if he got sucked into an airplane's engine?

[KOSKESH43]

5 people tried this and they went to space and they never came back!

[shimenga1]

i bet no one would be scared of jumping back to dear old earth up there.

[azzTwild]

LEGEND



[fickendermann]

At such height the cosmic radiation is pretty heavy but i think that's an extrordinary experience any human being should live! great!!!

[drainmudvayne27]

whats with the dude sticking his fingers up at him at the end, lol

[kingmackattack42]

This wasn't like going up in a plane where he could back out if he wanted to, once he left the airfield there was no turning back. That balloon he was on wasn't making a round trip. Once he got to that certain height he had to get off wether he was ready or not! What isolation he must've felt. 

[SgtDamien]

he got up there by a balloon? i guess we know where balloons go when we set them free =P 

[ThelronFjord]

This guy is still alive.

[SilentLegesInterArma]

@zigilwantsu because hes a cool dude ya know^^

[flatsdude1]

I knew Joe back in the early 80's in Orlando at now the closed Church Street Station...very humble guy, and extremely nice. I never knew about this record. Nice going, Joe.

[vinnybunbats]

why isnt there a full video from the top at 103,000 feet all the way down? all u see is him jumping out of the ballon then right as he is suppose to hit the part of the atmosphere that has air they turn it to the end where he has already opened his parachute. i thought they filmed the whole jump does anybody know where i can watch the full jump?

[MrBangCoi]

@no you cant

[killerxzzy]

@vinnybunbats Because noone wanted to jump that with him and i dont think we have a video camera tht can see 31km thats why u see him jump and then land

[grozmo1]

@vinnybunbats google search 65675071903_Operation-Excelsio­r-III_gondola_earth_Captain-Jo­seph-Kittinger

[realisticHomeboy]

@vinnybunbats There is air all the way. It doesn't suddenly stop or start. It gradually gets thinner and thinner.

[demondwarrior1]

@vinnybunbats you do have to realize that this was done in 1960 so the technology wasnt developed yet

[dbtest117]

@demondwarrior1 They did things in the 60's no man does to day. All you need is a little bit of "educated" people who exercise understanding (drop outs usually).

[Neopetixan]

@vinnybunbats maybe the balloon DIDN'T want to go that high~

[twobluehorses]

@vinnybunbats No vid cameras in those days that didn't weigh dozens of pounds. The film we see was most likely 16mm and the camera was attached to the capsule Kittinger jumped from.

[brianxball]

I would take a nap while falling

[DRUNKINVIRGIN]

I don't care what anyone says this guy has the biggest set on the planet. He has my respect.

[89ErwinR]

he had HUGE ballz

[Hazardiousmatze]

unbelievable.

[tavi921]

if i had the money i'd do the exact same thing except i would wear a pressurized  wingsuit. imagine flying like that. living airplane! literally !

[tavi921]

if i had the money i'd do the exact same thing except i would wear a pressurized  wingsuit. imagine flying like that. living airplane! literally !

[takethepicture1]

And now the aliens have the giant ballon and they are doing the same somewhere in the universe..

[schlep18]

From the lack of pressure, you'd think he would b dead

[TheRaellz]

@schlep18 he has a suit on.

[SamJendo1]

Kittinger is quoted as saying that the entire reason for doing this jump was to provide a reason to create bad techno/ambient music soundtracks.

[oloqxxpolo]

0.0 wow

[Nobuga159]

Fantastic!

[Xblow23]

It is interesting, that you won't feel real cold in space, even if the temperature is 3 K (-270 C)! Because there's nearly vacuum :)

[MMAdominate]

I think this is the only guy to break the sound bar. without a machine...A man amung men. Rock on, man!

[costa1492]

988 km /h (614mph) o.O GOD!!

[ushldfold123]

2:40 Watch him float around in space

[soverato3]

why didnt he burned up like a satellite would during re-entery??

[marvchomer]

A few years after this jump, he became a POW in North Vietnam.

[bolderiks]

...setting several records, some of which remain unbroken.

Obvious, where the hell do you find another mutand with brains as heavy as helium.

[YarickZan]

@bolderiks You start looking at people that comment on youtube videos.....

[bolderiks]

@YarickZan Ladies and gentlemen, we got em! ;)

[paintballeros]

but the question is how did he fit his balls into that suit?

[SamJendo1]

@paintballeros Its a little known fact that Kittinger had a third parachute for his balls.

[tkivoband]

@paintballeros hahahaa..awesome comment!

[Fourteen88SoCal]

@paintballeros very carefully lol

[zyclonb6]

@paintballeros how did so many idiots not find this amazing?



[lookin420]

The best jump ever

[greggusan]

The graffic at the end is cool. Helps put the whole jump into perspective

[blitzedburgh090]

the sun! looks sweet from there

[kostya9999]

Just wow! I would love to do something like this if I had the opportunity or the money! The view at the top is heavenly, and would change anyone's perception on life.

[zigilwantsu]

why didnt' he burn ?

[lesliekwan80]

@zigilwantsu He's not going fast enough to burn.

[haynar09]

@zigilwantsu because 31km is too low to start burning

[congopete]

@haynar09 not exactly, the height is of little significance. From a certain point on your absolute speed is reached. Jumping from a baloon though means you have zero horizontal velocity.

He wasn't in a ballistic flight. Speak, he also wasn't weightless.

[gotanesp]

@zigilwantsu He wasn't traveling at a sufficient enough of a speed.

[StonedRhino1990]

@zigilwantsu he fell at around 600mph a shuttle renter's at around 17,000mph

[nko11]

@zigilwantsu Becasue of terminal velocity.

[TheRaellz]

@zigilwantsu because he had no exit velocity to leave the atmosphere completely so why would he burn up on reentry if he never left?

[ThePsycho1712]

@zigilwantsu because hes fucking awesome

[nfinn42]

@zigilwantsu not enough surface area in cross section, not enough initial speed. burning up in reentry is a function of friction caused by speed + mass of air moving against surface area of object. A man's nowhere near the size of a space capsule, and more importantly, he began accelerating from a near (relative) stop rather than from an already high approach speed.

[skimowhite586]

@zigilwantsu He was going 1000km per hour not per second. A certain speed is required in order to BURN as you call it. Why well the things that burn require energy. Which often means fast moving molecules. So when you fall at 5 miles per second that fall an speed turns into BURN

[MrBangCoi]

@zigilwantsu the falling speed wasnt fast enough

[YouWoW1z1]

@zigilwantsu He never actually left our atmosphere to go into space, so he didn't have to fly through our atmosphere, and entering our atmosphere is what makes most objects burn.

[Univarman]

@zigilwantsu He didn’t reach a speed that was fast enough

[muzzykharal]

@zigilwantsu cuz hes too cool (y)

[grozmo1]

@zigilwantsu He didn't burn because he wasn't moving fast enough. Things that do burn up in the atmosphere due to friction are moving at many thousands mph - for example the space shuttle re-enters the atmosphere at around 17,000 mph.

[meklopfklopf]

@grozmo1 Ok, never knew, thanks !

[veedubl0ve]

great music lineup haha it fits perfectly...this video cannot be explained in words

[elbacano97]

how could that parachute hold the weight of his massive balls!!!!

[ramborockyhitman47]

who was filming this? xd

[ambicioz]

lol 5:00

[Lefty5607]

this is ridiculous Talk about balls

[ano1871]

how does the ozone layer taste?

[Majoraspirit]

"Next, jump from a space station and freefall to Earth"

[walencia794]

@Majoraspirit haha would be amazing :D!

[Yobzeh]

this is ridiculously dangerous but fucking cool.

[macaroniweekly]

Thats going to be in my futer theme park

[rozrob1]

.. undoubted hero of the deed he had committed

[cullen415]

You just know his dick is like 9 feet long...

[DoomsDaySlip]

Balls. The size of coffee tables.

anyone know what song is used when he jumps out. I really dig it

[b101aa2]

if i had the money needed, i'd break that record. 130k-150k ft. would be an awesome ride down, and if you're going to go out, that is one hell of a way to do it.

[Dhragonfly]

4:08 welcome to the land of marshmellows!

[y14rge]

does any one know what happened to the redbull stratos project ?

[Serpo71]

@y14rge It's back on track now after a lengthy lawsuit...

[loskatnaamai]

duuuuuuude im 11 and ill do that!!@!@! jokes :D

[MrBigRifle]

Absolutely mind Blowing................

[DeffingLeppard]

Imagine going up in the balloon. All you could think would be "Well I can't pussy out now"

[XLearnyourabcsX]

o.O

[M1STERPYGMY]

5:00 "welcome back to earth... you get the finger muffugger"

[luceEnd]

This guy is the ultimate bad ass!! Talk about gutsy...

[nviso209]

Not my DAD but certainly the MAN!

[IcedOizen]

Wouldn't he burn up as he re entered? or is that only from outer outer space?

[uhohoverflow]

@IcedOizen He is by far not fast enough for that. A jet plane doesn't burn up in the athmosphere either, does it?

[WoWisMagic]

id b shitting myself b4 i jump..dude its fucking space. HOLY SHIT

[zorbazig]

Remember us when it was ?

[eminence18]

haha 5:00 gives him the finger

[D4rkMatter1975]

Incredible!

[paintballgod852]

He needed a GoPro :)

[rsmoove2000]

Good music!



[stuntmann123]

hey i cant see my house from here!

[reedsonics]

Without air; no friction, no heat. His suit didn't move as he fell for the first few minutes of freefall and with no visual reference, he thought he was floating in space forever. Scary.

[Buskieboy]

At that speed would he experience any heating from friction?

How did they stop his decent? Surely they didn't just throw a

main chute? Would that not be too abrupt at +600mph?

Ballsy thing to do though. Very lonely up there.

[TrueWillz]

@Buskieboy i forgot where i read this from, but it is related to physics. It states there is a maximum speed you can speed in which you fall at (towards Earth in this case) depending on the mass, gravity and density of the air.

[danifel17]

Nice

[blackdogwoofwoof]

lol he broke the sound barrier

[billyeatspoo]

That song is on loop outside the troposphere. True story.

[CanadianStoner1001]

Fuck thaaaaat! imagine just getting trapped in orbit instead of falling, he better have brought a gun!

[susspuss]

when i'm old and wrinkled and my wife dies earlier than me, then i would really want to do this... hopefully my son forgives me if anything goes wrong...

[bassharald]

nice atmospheric video!

iloveit when the dnb kicks in as the tension reaches its peak.

[ZigZagZinger1]

My question is... In witch fucking country did he land ?

[Kevinski1997]

@ZigZagZinger1 New Mexico, USA. Somewhere around White Sands Missle Range and Carizzoso, I think.

[VeteranAlmond]

what year was this?

[jdabaig]

The 2 persons are just jealouscof this great achievment....its a lot of courage to do that

[pandafridge]

they should do this again but with a go pro

[DJssLICK]

Luckily he didn't burst into flames!!!!

[SD1993]

This is quite possibly the single most badass thing any human being has ever done. 200,000 years of human evolution occurred just so things like this could happen.

[yellowflagswaving]

so, what is the hight when you don't fall anymore stepping out of the basket. I mean were is the gravity not working anymore and you will be floating off into space?

[linktrix291]

@yellowflagswaving (what i was told in my astronomy class) It is believed that there is always gravity. it's just that the farther you get from it, the less you feel it. which is why the moon is able to affect our gravity with out pulling us off. there is a certain distance between the earth and the moon where you will start slowly falling towards the moon rather than the earth. we can feel mars gravity, we are just way to far away for it to be effective in anyway.

[StanleyKu]

I dont understand why he opened his chute at 17,000 ft. He could have fallen for more than 5 minutes if he had pulled at 5 or 6k.

[grozmo1]

@StanleyKu The chute was set to open automatically just in case he was unconscious, and for one of the jumps he did he WAS unconscious so he was lucky!

[cliveashleyhamilton]

@grozmo1 He opened his chute at that height incase any of his equipment had frozen/sealed itself giving him more freefall time to deal with it. Modern day ADDs (automatic deployment devices) are triggered at 1,500ft.

[TheAlertHusky]

@grozmo1 It was also so it wouldn't tear him apart. If he was free falling much longer his max velocity would have literally torn him limb from limb.

[STFHARDSTYLE]

@StanleyKu because he was going so fast

[Jackal2120Pop]

@StanleyKu and he just jump from basically freaking space haha so i figure he was eager to get his chute open

[Russakabamf]

@StanleyKu to slow him down, he was traveling faster than the speed of sound!

[thupratvideo]

@StanleyKu better to early then to late

[Mytaya100]

That fucking amazing like no doubt !!! :)

[coolferds06]

He is so lucky, my friend died when he fall in a 5 foot height.

[FerrariKidd]

how come his suit didnt burn up when coming back into the atmosphere, similar to what shuttles experience upon re-entry?

[omgwtfbbqxD]

@FerrariKidd It's the difference in speed. The reason space shuttles get so hot upon reentry is because they're still traveling at 16.000 miles an hour, and the friction with the air causes all that heat. This man 'only' reached about 600 miles an hour, so the friction isn't as bad.

[photobart1]

The guy was flipping him off because he was saying either you f$&king just did that or he was F$&king congratulating him. Man that guy had the biggest balls in the world.

[CRAZYFREAK936]

Awesome *-*

[Musketeers750]

5:00 wtf middle finger??

[grozmo1]

@Musketeers750 He's just jealous he didn't get to do it :)