14 DAY TRIAL // One thing's for sure about Felix Baumgartner's historic jump from the edge of space, it ended up breaking a lot of records. The numbers are still unofficial, but they should be accurate.
The governing body ratifying the records, the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, should be issuing their results soon.
There are a couple of records that he obviously broke, for example, flying the highest in a balloon.
He reached a maximum height of 39,045 m or 128,100 feet, the highest ever for a manned balloon, by a safe margin, the previous record was at around 34,000 m.
He jumped from a little below that, but it was still the highest freefall jump in history, again by a very safe margin of almost 8,000 m or 26,250 feet. There's no official number yet.
He also obviously broke the record for the fastest jump ever, he reached a peak speed of 1,342.8 km/h or 833.9 mph. That would be around 1.24 Mach at that altitude, way past the sound barrier.
He became the first man to go supersonic without the aid of a vehicle, precisely 65 years after Chuck Yeager became the first man to go supersonic.
Not that he had time to notice, he was trying to stabilize himself at the time as he started spinning quite violently which could have led to him blacking out.
He did not set the record for longest freefall, he fell for 4 minutes and 19 seconds before opening his parachute. The Record is still held by Joe Kittinger, the previous unofficial record holder for highest jump.
Baumgartner fell significantly faster than Kittinger, so he traveled the distance to until he could safely open the chute a lot faster, meaning his freefall time was shorter. Problems with his visor fogging probably caused him to open his parachute earlier than planned, he was supposed to freefall for about a minute longer.