Quote:
Originally Posted by Homeslice
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you guys seem to be saying that the wind is the only reason I feel that sickening sensation, and I'm saying that's BS.
|
Trip, I think he does have a point to an extent here. I think
initially Felix probably felt that sensation, that shift of the internal organs wanting to stay where they were before he stepped off the platform and began to accelerate. BUT... once that rate of acceleration began, he would cease to feel anything after that initial moment, because then everything is accelerating at the same pace.
if that is actually what happened, I haven't read statements from Kittinger or Baumgautner on that initial moment where they stepped off the platform. I do know Baumgautner said at the press conferance after this last jump that once he was under way it was hard for him to tell he was falling.
__________________
Photography
"The Vincent was like a bullet that went straight; the Ducati is like the magic bullet that went sideways and hit JFK and the Governor of Texas at the same time. It was impossible."
- Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature
"Be who you are and say what you feel
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind."
-Dr. Seuss